Clinical Manager

Children's Hospice South West; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust in Halifax seeks a Clinical Manager to lead the Hub for the Community Healthcare Division. This 37.5-hour role offers visible leadership, operational oversight and collaboration with the Primary Care Network to ensure high-quality community nursing.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams, deploy resources effectively, drive service improvements and support staff development within a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 1st level registered nurse or Allied health professional.
• Teaching and mentoring qualifications preferred.
• Leadership experience in clinical teams is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Hold day-to-day responsibility for community nursing provision within a defined area.
• Provide leadership within the Hub to ensure safe, responsive service delivery.
• Deputise for OPAT Lead Nurse in absence.
• Deploy and manage resources to deliver safe care.
• Provide visible clinical leadership across teams and stakeholders.
• Contribute to redesign and modernisation of clinical services.

Skills

Registered nurse

Allied health professional

Teaching & mentoring

Education

Management qualification

MSC level

Job description

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Manager to join our dedicated community services team. This is a rewarding leadership role where you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to patient care, service delivery, and staff development.

As a Clinical Manager, you will provide visible leadership and operational oversight, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective care. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will support staff, drive service improvements, and help shape the future of community healthcare services.

The post is 37.5 hours per week Monday - Friday

Main duties of the job

The post requires a strong innovative leader to lead the Hub for Calderdale & Huddersfield Trust Community Healthcare Division in collaboration with the Primary Care Network and Stakeholders.

Calderdale Community Healthcare Division covers five locality Hubs each with a clinical Manager lead.

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

• To hold day to day responsibility for managing the provision of community nursing services within a defined geographical area in response to identified need and strategic priority.
• The post holder will provide leadership within the Hub to keep the base safe and will work within the team of Clinical Managers to provide Divisional leadership for Community Nursing.
• The post holder will deputies for the OPAT Lead Nurse in her absence
• To effectively deploy and manage human and financial resources to ensure safe and responsive service delivery within Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust.
• To provide strong visible clinical leadership and to be the first point of contact to front line staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders across organisational boundaries to enable a prompt management response to operational issues.
• To contribute to the modernisation and redesign of clinical services leading on the implementation of district nursing redesign within a defined geographical area.
• To manage the processes for assessing and performance managing the activity for the community nurses within a defined geographical locality.
• To support the Matron Community Nursing in delivering the priorities and objectives relevant to adult services.
• To contribute to the planning, monitoring and development of services whilst seeking to promote a culture of continuous improvement thus contributing to the achievement of CHFT values and objectives.
• To represent the Directorate at meetings and for specified activities, as required by the Division Senior Management Team.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

Essential

• 1st level registered nurse or Allied health Professional
• Qualification in teaching and assessing / mentoring

Desirable

• Management qualification
• MSC level of study

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Essential

• Able to demonstrate a depth of knowledge and learning from relevant and recent community nursing experience or Therapy experience
• Experience of leading and managing clinical teams or services
• Evidence of continuing professional development that had further enhanced leadership skill
• Current issues in community/primary health care
• Models of leadership
• Drivers behind service modernisation and change agenda
• IT awareness
• Research and audit methodology
• Awareness of clinical governance and its impact on contemporary nursing
• Issues in multi agency / multidisciplinary working

Desirable

• Experience of contributing to service redesign initiatives
• Experience of managing services in a changing environment

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

Essential

• Effective communicator including negotiating, mentoring and advocacy skills
• Planning and organisation of self
• Problem solving
• Commitment to developing self and others
• Able to introduce change and innovation
• Presentation skills
• Budget management skills
• Assertive
• Confident
• Creative thinker - solution focussed
• Ability to work flexibly

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 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).

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Calderdale Community Services, Dean Clough

Bowling Mill

Halifax

HX3 5WA

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)