Clinical Site Practitioner

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; Greenhill; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a senior site practitioner to provide clinical leadership and support across clinical teams. The role focuses on safe patient care, efficient patient flow, and achieving national and trust targets in emergency and elective care.

Based at Cross site, the post will support the Head and Deputy Head of Site Practitioners and the Emergency Operational Lead in delivering high-quality patient outcomes, managing risks, and guiding staff

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and support across staff groups.
• Act as a clinical expert to ensure high-quality patient care.
• Manage clinical risk and address out-of-hours complaints.
• Triage acute in-patients and liaise with medical teams as needed.
• Work as part of the Hospital at Night team.
• Coordinate patient flow through hospital for elective and emergency admissions.
• Support delivery of emergency and elective care targets and KPIs.
• Respond to out-of-hours site management issues with the relevant manager.
• Collaborate with clinical teams to achieve performance targets.
• Represent management on site out-of-hours on behalf of line managers.
• Work with Senior Clinical Site Practitioners in 24-hour hospital management.
• Oversee bed stock use and optimise capacity for safe placements.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Education

Staff support

Emergency care

Job description

Provide outstanding quality of care to maintain and further improve patient outcomes.Ensure the safe and appropriate placement of patient's, support efficient patient flowsand optimal use of the trusts bed stock. Ensure national & trust targets are achieved. Respond to the 'out of hours' site management issue that arise, 1. Based at Cross site. This senior role will support the Head and DeputyHead of Site Practitioners and the Emergency Operational Lead in thedelivery of the trust key performance targets in emergency/elective care. 2. Clinical leadership, support and education across a range of staffgroups. 3. To be a clinical expert and to ensure the delivery of high quality patientcare through instructions, supervise and support to patients, families andall allied health professionals within the trust, using evidence basedpractice. 4. To be accountable for the management of clinical risk and out of hourscomplaints. 5. Triage of acute adults in-patients, with referral to the appropriate medicalteams if required. 6. To work as part of the Hospital at night team. 7. To co-ordinate the flow of patients through the hospital both elective andemergency allowing for sufficient capacity and safe placement of alladmissions. 8. To be aware of out of hours budget issues and to act accordingly. 9. To work alongside clinical teams to ensure performance targets areachieved. 10. To take responsibility for the management of the site 'out of hours'liaising with the appropriate manager as necessary. 11. To act as management representative to all staff on site 'out of hours' onbehalf of their line manager. 12. To work with Senior Clinical Site Practitioners and participate in the 24hour management of the Hospital.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.