Band 7 Clinical Lead – Urgent Care Bureau

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS seeks a Band 7 Clinical Lead for the Urgent Care Bureau to provide clinical expertise across community services. Responsibilities include working with multidisciplinary teams, managing care pathways, and ensuring evidence-based practice. Ideal candidates will be registered nurses with significant experience in community health and a passion for mentoring others.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of a multidisciplinary approach to care.
• Evidence of up-to-date post registration education relevant to the role.
• Experience working as a registered nurse in the community.

Responsibilities

• Manage own time effectively and prioritize workload.
• Facilitate teaching and supervision for less experienced staff.
• Participate in the recruitment and retention of staff.

Skills

Multidisciplinary approach

Clinical Governance

Mentoring

Teaching

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)

Degree in relevant subject

Independent prescriber

Job description

Band 7 Clinical Lead – Urgent Care Bureau

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

The post holder will be based within the Urgent Care Bureau Team, and working with the Urgent Community Response Team clinically, when required. The post holder will have operational and clinical responsibility of the Urgent Care Bureau Team.

The post holder will be able to provide clinical expertise in Triage, In-reach and Virtual Wards across the Adult Community Services Division.

The purpose of the role is to work across services and with wider system

The Post holder will be expected to participate in working with secondary care, to identify and assess patients suitable for community services, and to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate early supportive discharge. The work will be undertaken collaboratively with Secondary and Primary Care, and Community Services, including Urgent Care Response, Early Intervention Community Teams (EICT), Urgent Care Bureau and other services deemed in scope.

The post holder will also attend multidisciplinary team meetings (MDT's) to provide advice and support to the Virtual Ward (Hospital @Home) Model.

Main duties of the job

1. Work in accordance with the NMC / HCPC Code of Practice

2. Be conversant with all BCHC NHS FT policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented.

3. Ensure evidence-based care is practiced and promoted at all times.

4. Manage own time effectively and prioritise workload.

5. Facilitate teaching and supervision for less experienced members of staff.

6. Promote health by collaborative working with patients and their relatives.

7. Provide support to the multidisciplinary team to enable patients to make better choices for their health and that of their families, undertaking health promotion and contributing to the prevention of adverse effects to health and wellbeing.

8. Act as a role model to and facilitate others to respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of patients: involving them in shared decision making and obtaining consent prior to all interventions.

9. Safeguard individuals from abuse by reporting any incidents involving potential or actual abuse and acting upon concerns immediately.

10. Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to care.

About us

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust (BCHC) is committed to providing dignity in care for all our patients and service users across the Trust.

All staff, workers, volunteers, students and individuals undertaking work experience/shadowing, irrespective of the role they specifically undertake, are required to adhere to BCHC's vision, values, and professional standards. This also involves working with and alongside colleagues and partners, demonstrating a duty of Candour (i.e., honesty and straightforwardness), openness and accountability in order to achieve high quality and the best possible care outcomes for our patients, service users and the local community.

Job responsibilities

1. Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities, both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDRs.

2. Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staffs perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.

3. Make recommendations and changes to clinical practice and participate in implementation where appropriate.

4. Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply it to the work situation.

5. Participate in the recruitment, selection, and retention of staff.

6. Lead and participate in undertaking surveys and audits

7. Actively participate in clinical supervision and reflective practice with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and on an individual basis.

8. Ensure staff compliance with all mandatory training.

Person Specification

• Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)/ AHP.
• Significant experience of a multidisciplinary approach to care.
• Evidence of up-to-date post registration education relevant to the role
• Degree in relevant subject
• Independent prescriber
• Significant experience as a registered health professional including working in a rehabilitation, frailty, community or older adult setting or care
• Experience working as a registered nurse in the community.
• Significant experience of a multidisciplinary approach to care.
• Mentoring or teaching qualification.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.