Clinical Lead Community Nursing

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Chester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident Employer

Rainbow Badge Scheme

Veteran Aware organization

Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award

Job summary

Chester South Care Community Team is seeking a Clinical Lead to provide clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team including Team Manager, Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, Clinical Leads, Community Nurses and other specialists.

The post is full time (37.5 hours per week) and involves safeguarding, collaboration with partners, and a patient-centered approach to care across the community setting.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and provides confident support and clinical leadership to clinicians in collaboration with other professionals.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with patients and their families/carers; safeguarding when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide a highly visible clinical profile with leadership and clinical oversight of a designated community caseload
• Collaborate with wider health, social care and third sector to meet patient needs
• Ensure patients receive the right care, by the right person, at the right time and place
• Place the patient at the centre of all decisions to streamline the patient journey and improve independence and care quality
• Provide direction within the caseload considering local health and social care agendas and initiatives
• Be aware of local public health profiles and how they influence required care
• Understand community profile skills for the Community Care Team
• Focus on delivering person-centred care
• Provide effective, evidence-based care through caseload management and monitoring of care standards
• Provide clinical leadership

Skills

Clinical leadership

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Job description

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Clinical Lead to join Chester South Care Community Team. You will be joining a multidisciplinary team including but not limited to; Team Manager, Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, Clinical Leads, Community Nurses, Specialist Palliative Care Nurses, AHP's as well as many other specialist professionals who visit the team.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, self-motivated and who provides confident support and clinical leadership to clinicians alongside working in collaboration with other professionals. Has excellent communication skills and an ability to work with patients and their families/carers and when necessary, act to safeguard individuals who are at risk from harm and abuse.

This post is full time 37.5 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Provide a highly visible clinical profile with leadership and clinical oversight of a designated community caseload
• Working collaboratively with the wider health, social care and the third sector partner agencies to meet the needs of patients
• Ensure patients receive the right care, by the right person at the right time and the right place
• Placing the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, with minimal avoidable delays, and an emphasis on people achieving independence whilst improving quality of care
• To provide direction within the caseload in consideration of the impact of current health and social care agendas and local initiatives
• To be aware of local public health community profiles and how this influences the required care for the population
• According to community profiles: understand the skills required from the Community Care Team
• To focus on the delivery of person centred care
• To provide effective, evidence based care to a defined population through case load management and monitoring of care standards
• Provide clinical leadership.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

Benefits

• As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amy Sutherland Job title: Operational Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07768658727

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