Clinical Lead: Outpatient & Day Case Unit

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Berwick-upon-Tweed; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Berwick-upon-Tweed is seeking a department leader for our dual purpose outpatient and medical day case unit at Berwick Infirmary. The role spans OPD clinics Monday to Friday and a day case service, offering a diverse and challenging remit.

You will work with a wide local and regional team, ensure safe staffing, lead clinical practice, and drive service development and quality improvement as we move towards our new hospital facilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the treatment and care of patients who attend our nurse led medical day case unit, liaising with speciality teams to provide safe and efficient care.
• Responsible for the daily running of the out patient department, ensuring safe staffing levels and supporting staff on a daily basis.
• Working closely with multiple teams, providing education and support to the local team to allow us to provide safe care in a rural location.
• Provide highest standards of clinical practice and act as a role model to others
• Adapting to the changing environment and supporting the team during service development and quality improvement initiatives
• Control workload and manage duties by identifying networks of support for yourself and other employees
• Delegates to member of the team We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Berwick-upon-Tweed is seeking a department leader for our dual purpose outpatient and medical day case unit at Berwick Infirmary. The role spans OPD clinics Monday to Friday and a day case service, offering a diverse and challenging remit.

You will work with a wide local and regional team, ensure safe staffing, lead clinical practice, and drive service development and quality improvement as we move towards our new hospital facilities.