Clinical Lead In Post Covid Service

Calderdale And Huddersfield Nhs Foundation Trust; Calverley; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Clinical Lead for their Post Covid Service in Sowerby Bridge. You will lead a multiprofessional team, provide expert triage, assessment, treatment and clinical coordination within the Post Covid pathway.

The post involves developing the service to meet West Yorkshire ICB recommendations, working with primary and secondary care, and driving training, evaluation and service development across multiple settings including classes, homes,

Qualifications

• HCPC registration and relevant professional qualification in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy.
• Degree in a relevant clinical discipline with postgraduate MSc or equivalent experience.
• Experience and skills to lead advanced Post Covid clinical pathways.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating Post Covid clinical work.
• Provide expert triage, assessment and treatment within the Post Covid service.
• Develop and evaluate new pathways in line with regional recommendations.
• Lead and supervise a multiprofessional team and liaise with primary and secondary care.
• Contribute to training, education and quality improvement across the service.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Triage & assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Digital/telehealth

Education

HCPC registration

Degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy

MSc or equivalent

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting Band 7 opportunity to clinically lead the Calderdale Post Covid service.

You will join a multiprofessional team who are passionate about the service they deliver. The team works with a strong emphasis on self management and delivers symptom based rehab. You will provide expert triage, assessment, treatment and clinical coordination of patients in CHFT's pathway.

The expectation is that this service will develop in line with West Yorkshire ICB recommendations to expand to include other conditions who would benefit from a similar symptom based approach. You will work alongside the service lead to develop this new vision and pathway.

You will also be leading, facilitating and working with a number of professions including direct liaison with primary care, referrers and consultants in secondary care.

This service is delivered in a variety of settings: classes, patient homes, clinic and virtual. You will support the training and skill acquisition within the core team but also support training needs of services across the Calderdale place. As a new and emerging service, you and the service lead will be responsible for the development and evaluation of the service.

Main duties of the job

See Job description and Personal Spec for full details:

The postholder will deliver a high quality specialist Post Covid service to CHFT 's Calderdale residents. They will take a specialist lead clinical role and will work as an integral part of the Post COVID pathway providing leadership, consultation and supervision to other professional colleagues. An important element of the role is the ongoing development of a newly emerging speciality, therefore knowledge in post infectious conditions their presentation and treatment is essential alongside service development.

About us

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

Job responsibilities

• To be responsible for planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating clinical case work within the Post Covid service, to include triage, initial assessment and MDT working.
• To provide evidence based, highly specialist knowledge, assessment and treatment skills to the Post Covid service
• To be responsive to emerging evidence around post viral illnesses. Educating staff members and altering/adapting clinical pathways as appropriate.
• To manage autonomously a clinical workload of patients with Post COVID and post infectious/viral conditions at a highly specialist level.
• To support the Post Covid service lead in developing, establishing and evaluating the new emerging service and pathway.
• To contribute to measuring the effectiveness of the service, collecting and analysing data, producing team reports and making recommendations.
• To take responsibility for effective functioning of the overall team within the Post Covid pathway. This will require effective communication and direction of professionals from CRT, Pulmonary Rehab, Inpatient Therapy, Respiratory Care and Psychology.
• To take a lead with quality improvements in the Post Covid service.
• To support the training, education and development of the team, students and services across the system.
• To lead the promotion of the service and encourage communication; education and joined up working, in particular with primary care and public health. Support partnership working with patients, peer support groups and local authority teams and voluntary services.
• To participate in the supervision and appraisal process with staff and students as required.
• Degree or equivalent award in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy
• Registered with HCPC
• MSc or MSc level learning in a relevant subject or can demonstrate equivalent clinical experience
• Recent post graduate courses relevant to the management of post viral conditions/respiratory conditions /cardiac conditions/dysautonomia/breathing disorders/ME/CFS
• Member of the Professional body
• Successful completion of a professionally validated specialist course
• Member of clinical network relevant to post viral illness e.g. Clinical Post COVID Society, British Thoracic Society
• Highly Specialist level of knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to support expert clinical practice in Long COVID including the assessment, treatment and management of people recovering from Long COVID and post viral illness
• The ability to lead assessment and treatment sessions and create detailed and comprehensive treatment plans for complex patients with Long COVID
• Significant experience of prioritising own and other caseloads with experience of delegation of work to the relevant grade of staff
• Excellent organisational and planning skills both individually and in a team
• Extensive experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Recent relevant experience of multidisciplinary guideline development, implementation and audit
• Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
• Experience of supervising other staff members and conducting annual reviews
• Significant experience of planning and delivering teaching sessions, covering both theory and practical skills to own and other professions
• Knowledge of the principles of student-centred learning and reflective practice
• Comprehensive, relevant and recent experience working in relevant clinical areas e.g. respiratory/cardiology/neurology
• Recent experience in dealing with Human Resource issues such as recruitment and retention, performance management, sickness and annual leave
• Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key stakeholders across clinical pathways
• Knowledge of clinical standards and guidelines with the ability to implement and audit these in the team
• Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance, audit and research. With evidence of implementing these.
• Competent IT skills in order to collect and interpret data, present reports and compile presentations in a range of contexts
• Experience of using virtual ways of working e.g. telehealth, video conferencing, use of digital platform and other remote methods of working and supporting clinical practice.
• Experience of taking part in or leading an audit or research project
• Experience of working in partnership across different organisations
• Recent experience of leadership /management role

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES) Essential

• Excellent communication and counselling skills including observation, listening, motivational interviewing and empathy
• Ability to communicate effectively with people with complex difficulties and in difficult situations
• Comfortable leading groups of people with complex needs and at times manage highly emotional situations
• Excellent interpersonal skills for developing complex working relationships, expressing opinions constructively, seeking consensus and maintaining networks
• Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and supporting other staff to manage highly emotional or aggressive patients and carers, this may be in a group or individual setting and may be in the patient's home or external site.
• Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills in complex situations and ability to facilitate these skills in others
• Excellent analytical and reflective skills and ability to support others in developing these skills
• To have the ability to communicate at a high level when working with the MDT
• Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal, and ability to adjust style and content as appropriate
• Ability to organise and lead meetings
• Ability to inspire staff demonstrating clear and inspiring clinical leadership to deliver high quality services.
• Has a strong degree of personal integrity; able to adhere to standards of conduct based on a culture of equality and fairness

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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