Clinical Team Leader

This post is only open to internal applicants.

Clinical Team Leader Band 7

Main area Community Nursing Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Predominately Mon-Fri 9am-5pm but flexibility required with some weekend or evening hours required at times) Job ref 350-CC

Site V7 Town Prescot Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/05/:59

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

To support the increasing complexity and volume of clinical activity, we are looking for an additional Clinical Team Leader in the Single Point of Contact focused on senior clinical leadership and decision-making. This role is essential to provide expert oversight, ensure timely and safe clinical decisions, and maintain high standards of care across the service putting patient care at the centre of everything you do. As demand continues to rise, this role will strengthen clinical governance, reduce pressure on existing senior staff, and enhance our ability to manage complex cases effectively and efficiently.

We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic in facing a challenging, fast paced ever changing service who thrives on supporting others to deliver and develop as well as supporting new pathways and developing new pathways in the service.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team.
• Be responsible for the delivery of the Service within the area.
• Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders etc., to enable patients to be maintained in their home environment, thus avoiding unnecessary hospital admission and enabling early discharge and reduced length of stay.
• Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
• Have full-line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patient care. The post holder will, as necessary deal with all required levels of grievance, discipline, absence management and appraisal.
• Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service in the defined area. The post holder will be required to provide team leadership and management to a team. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality care to patients/clients. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

Person specification Knowledge/Experience

• Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
• Experience of management and clinical leadership.
• Experience of successful multi-agency working
• Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
• Understanding how other agencies work.
• Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health initiatives.

Values

• Accountability
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change Orientated

Skills

• Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
• Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
• IT literate
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
• Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Self-management and motivation skills
• Report writing skills
• Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries.

Additional Information

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.