Clinical Team Leader - Breathe Service

NHS; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Team Leader in the Breathe Service, where you'll provide expert clinical leadership and oversight for respiratory patient care in the community. This role involves managing a dynamic team and ensuring high standards of care while working collaboratively with health and social care professionals.

Qualifications

• Current registration with NMC required.
• Must hold a diploma or degree in respiratory disease.
• Experience in the assessment and treatment of complex respiratory patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for the Breathe Service.
• Oversee assessments and treatment for respiratory patients.
• Manage a team and ensure high standards of care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Governance

Change Management

Education

Post graduate qualification in respiratory care

Nurse Independent Prescriber

Professional teaching qualification

Job description

Go back South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Clinical Team Leader - Breathe Service

The closing date is 07 July 2025

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Team Leader to join our Breathein the Community service

Inthis role, you will provide clinical expertise to develop & enhance theservice, which now includes Virtual Ward for respiratory including crisisresponse

Youwill provide clinical leadership & take overall day-to-day managerialresponsibility for ensuring the effective delivery of the service

Youwill oversee specialist assessments & treatments for patients with a rangeof acute & long-standing respiratory conditions, including highly complexcases

Therole requires self-direction & a high level of skill in communication,advanced assessment, collaborative working & expertise in clinicalgovernance/risk management

This role requires flexibility, theservice operates 7 days,08:00-20:00 the successful applicant will work across a shift pattern,including weekends & bank holidays

Atthe time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UKVisas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forwardto receiving your application.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to befully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Main duties of the job

You will:

monitor& enhance standards of care through supervision of practice, clinicalaudits, evidence-based practice, & teaching/mentoring colleagues

act as a source of expertiseworking at an advanced level of practice on the management of respiratoryconditions also providing an advisory service, ensuring high standards of care are delivered &maintained

have an understanding &ability to follow both national & local policy agenda & able totranslate the commissioning intentions & developments across the Barnsleylocality

possess excellentcommunication skills along with ability to motivate & develop staff todeliver people focused services

We are looking for someone who:

Has resilience & able to influence &motivate others including promoting change management

Is confident to work collaboratively witha range of internal & external stakeholders & partners across thehealth & social care sector

Is able to work across organisationalboundaries & have the leadership, aptitude & experience to influencethe teams

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About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

JOBSUMMARY

This job description is an outline of the main duties ofthe post. The post holder will be required to undertake other dutiescommensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultationwith the post holder when necessary and in line with service developments.

KEYRESULT AREAS:

JobPurpose

To take clinical leadership responsibility fora specialist Breathe Service for the treatment of patients with a variety ofacute and long-standing respiratory problems including those with highlycomplex presentations.

To takeoverall managerial leadership and be responsible for the delivery of the Breathein the Community Service in line with the service specification.

To undertakeand oversee specialist assessments, treatment, and advice to patients andcarers ensuring that the service formulates a treatment plan for all patientsreferred to the Breathe Service, this includes within a crisis situation,mobilising and link with relevant service pathways in the best interest of thepatient (e.g. same day emergency care, same day diagnostics, point of caretesting).

To act as asource of expertise working at an advanced level of practice on the managementof respiratory conditions providing an advisory service to health careprofessionals including AHPs, GPs, secondary care professionals andconsultants.

To provide clinical leadership and overall dayto day managerial responsibility for the effective delivery of the Breathe inthe Community Service including the line management of all clinical and supportstaff employed within the service.

Job Dimensions

To manageother healthcare professionals whilst having responsibility for the effectivedelivery of the Breathe Service for patients with respiratory conditions whoare supported in the community.

Authorised signatory for equipment and travel.

To supervise all team members.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current registration with governing body NMC.
• Post graduate qualification relating to respiratory care to Masters or an equivalent level. Nurse Independent Prescriber.
• Diploma/Degree in Respiratory Disease or working towards.
• Professional teaching qualification.

Personal Attributes

• Professional approach.
• Ability to work flexibly if required (i.e. weekend, evening and Bank Holiday working).
• Must be flexible around working times and practices including evening and weekend work where necessary.
• A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Special Knowledge/Skills

• Recent up to date knowledge of COPD, Oxygen and Respiratory care including management of acute exacerbations and acutely unwell patients.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge in respiratory care acquired through extensive experience working within these areas.
• Able to demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning relating respiratory conditions.
• Able to provide advanced clinical leadership to staff members within the cardiac and respiratory hub.
• High level of communication skills written and verbal.
• Good teaching / supervisory skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team, in isolation whilst using initiative to prioritise their own workload and the workloads of others.
• Sound understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit. Ability to apply principles to workplace.
• Good organisational, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent leadership skills including the ability to motivate those around them whilst leading a large team.
• Ability to deploy effective change management skills / techniques to be able to motivate a team and deliver successful outcomes.
• Possess a can do attitude to change to enable developments to be implemented successfully.
• Knowledge and understanding of current government legislation and NHS policy.
• Evidence of health promotion skills.
• Ability to deliver presentations to large groups of patients / service stakeholders.
• Ability to work under time pressures and constraints.
• Good awareness of confidentially and information governance issues.
• Ability to risk assess and awareness of health and safety for own and others work areas and caseloads.

Training

• Evidence of continuing professional development and post-graduate training in relevant area.
• A thorough understanding of respiratory condition disease management.

Experience

• Recent advanced experience of Respiratory care and clinical examination.
• Substantial experience of working as part of a nursing team and/or multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team.
• Experience of using and implementing evidence based
• practice.
• Extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of complex respiratory patients in a variety of clinical settings including secondary care and community.
• Experience of operational management within a Respiratory setting.
• Demonstrable experience of leading a team.
• Experience of delegating and prioritising staff workloads.
• Experience of managing / leading a team during a significant service development to improve service delivery that resulted in numerous changes to working practices.

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.

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