Clinical Lead
Band 7 -Full Time
Salary: £48,270 to £54,931
Location: Bracknell
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Leadto join our team in Bracknell where you will lead and support our community nurses.
You will have a Specialist Community Nursing Qualification and hold an Independent Prescribing Qualification (V300) or willing to undertake this within 6-12 months in post.
Your role
Provide enhanced clinical support and expertise to patients implementing evidence-based practice to ensure best patient care.
Promote a service which prevents patients from having inappropriate or unscheduled hospital admissions and helps facilitate hospital discharge.
Works alongside the Operational Team Lead to ensure staff are competent in their role and new staff and inducted and supported to reach competency required for their role.
Applications for this role will be considered on a first come first serve basis and we may close the vacancy early if the right candidate is found.
• Ensure care in their locality is based on sound assessment and care planning processes.
• I.T. literate to support staff transitioning to mobile working.
• Positively represent the service both internally and externally. Communicate highly complex information using informal and formal means to ensure people are fully informed of the service.
• Ensure that appropriate Statutory and mandatory training has been undertaken by all team members.
• Responsible for the retention and recruitment, induction, personal and professional development of staff.
• Monitor clinical supervision, induction, preceptorship and development of staff.
• Exercise leadership and judgment in the management of a Community Nursing Team to ensure good clinical practice and maintain high standards of care, and review staff practice at regular intervals.
• To provide education opportunities and training for all staff and students including pre- and post- registration nursing students.
• To develop district nursing practice in a defined area, developing and using relationships with other primary care team members.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites
Belong At Berkshire Healthcare
The “must haves” for this role:
• Ensures that the service is meeting business and performance requirements of the Organisation in-line with service specification, contract and CQUIN.
• Plan, organise and deliver regular staff meetings to share information pathways within the service and wider organisation in a robust timely manner. e.g. Team brief, CAS alerts, and feedback from senior management meeting
• Investigate complaints and incidents, including Serious Incidents requiring investigation, safeguarding and clinical issues.
• Identify the Root Causes, make recommendations for improvement and disseminate learning to staff, adding areas of concern to the risk register.
• Qualified Nurse
• Extensive community experience
• Experience of managing a team
• Experience of change management
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Kuljinder Johal, Talent Acquisition Partner on kuljinder.johal@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Oct 2024
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