Clinical Team Leader

The Methodist Church in Britain; Parkgate; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Team Leader for the Urgent Community Response service within the Community Integrated Response Team. The role combines hands-on clinical work with shift-leader duties, including daily caseload management and out-of-hours rota work, with access to a car for work.

The post-holder will lead a multidisciplinary team, coordinate care, supervise junior staff, and contribute to governance, improvement projects and workforce

Qualifications

• Registration with HCPC or relevant professional body
• Degree or diploma in a relevant clinical area
• Portfolio evidencing knowledge, skills and professional development

Responsibilities

• Assess complex patients in their own homes and coordinate multidisciplinary interventions
• Provide face-to-face clinical assessment and treatment
• Alternate into the shift leader role to oversee daily caseload management
• Lead and support a multidisciplinary team, providing operational and clinical leadership
• Act as a source of clinical expertise and support for staff
• Supervise, mentor and coach junior staff and develop their competence
• Oversee service delivery and manage resources
• Support service improvements, audits and governance processes
• Manage workforce matters including sickness, performance conversations and appraisals
• Deputise for the Service Lead at meetings
• Coordinate care with health, social care and system partners
• Develop innovative pathways and community-based models of care

Skills

Interpersonal communication

IT skills

Self-management

Time management

Negotiation

Education

Degree or diploma in a relevant clinical area

Portfolio evidencing knowledge and professional development

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Clinical Team Leader in the Urgent Community Response service, sitting within the Community Integrated Response Team at Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder leads a multidisciplinary team that assesses and treats people in their own homes during a health crisis, aiming to keep them out of hospital. The role combines hands‑on clinical work with alternating into the shift leader role, which covers daily caseload management and out-of-hours rota work. Access to a car for work is required.

What the job involves

• Assess complex patients in their own homes, formulate management plans and coordinate multidisciplinary interventions
• Provide face-to-face clinical assessment and treatment for patients referred to the service
• Alternate into the shift leader role to oversee daily caseload management, triage, allocation and response times
• Lead and support a multidisciplinary team, providing operational and clinical leadership
• Act as a source of clinical expertise and support for staff
• Supervise, mentor and coach junior staff, and develop their competence
• Oversee service delivery and manage resources
• Support service improvements, quality initiatives, audits and governance processes
• Manage workforce matters, including sickness, performance conversations, appraisals and staff wellbeing
• Deputise for the Service Lead, representing the service at meetings
• Work with health, social care and system partners to coordinate care and reduce avoidable admissions
• Support the development of innovative pathways and community-based models of care

Qualifications

• Registration with the HCPC or relevant professional body, where appropriate
• Degree or diploma in a relevant clinical area
• Portfolio evidencing knowledge, skills and professional development

Experience

• Experience of leading a clinical team
• Experience of operational and strategic planning
• Effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
• Managing staff effectively and achieving results through teamwork

Skills & knowledge

• Interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills at multidisciplinary level, engaging staff and teams through change
• Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft packages
• Self-management, organisation and time management, working to regular tight deadlines
• Negotiation, influence, networking and conflict resolution through partnership working
• Problem recognition and problem solving
• Verbal, written and presentation skills, including producing high-quality reports

Other

• Whole-systems strategic thinking, including assessing impact of service change on wider policy and practice
• Leadership qualities, including holding others to account for clinical care and outcomes
• Flexibility to work an out-of-hours rota, with access to a car for work

Nice to have

• MSc in Advanced Practice
• V300 independent nurse prescriber qualification