Clinical Lead - Community Nursing

SOUTH TEES HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Northallerton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Northallerton is seeking a dynamic Clinical Lead to oversee community and neighbourhood health services. The role involves leadership, quality assurance, and hands-on clinical care to ensure the delivery of high-quality nursing services. The ideal candidate will have prior leadership experience and a passion for health improvement. Training programs will enhance your leadership and management skills, contributing to a transformative healthcare environment.

Benefits

Leadership and improvement training

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Access to a vehicle for work purposes is necessary.
• Experience in clinical leadership and management.
• Understanding of quality and patient safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high-quality nursing care is delivered.
• Lead and manage the community nursing workforce.
• Collaborate with Clinical Matron and General Manager.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical management

Communication

Quality assurance

Job description

Are you interested in leadership and are you a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme?

If you are, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity of a clinical lead post within Clinical Service Unit 10 - Community and Neighbourhood Health services covering Hambleton & Richmondshire locality.

We are undergoing a significant programme of radical transformation within community services, and we have a great opportunity for a clinical lead to provide leadership to the teams within your area of responsibility, working collaboratively with the Clinical Matron and General Manager.

You will provide assurance of safety, quality and the overall patient experience as well as ensuring the effective day to day management of nursing in your area to deliver key quality, performance, and financial plans, to achieve service and standards improvements.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training; programmes have been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will hold 24 hour responsibility for the clinical area with support from the Clinical Matron and General Manager. They will ensure that they lead and clinically manage the area so that safe, high quality, evidence based nursing care is delivered to patients whilst respecting and involving families and carers as partners in care.

This post includes both operational and clinical responsibilities with the post holder spending a percentage of their working week (10% - 50%) providing visible and hands on clinical care to patients whilst working closely within the attached primary care network (PCN) to lead and provide coordinated care through integrated teams.

The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the community nursing workforce and will work in conjunction with the senior management team and the PCN to manage the budget for the area to ensure the best use of resources.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.