Deputy Regional Clinical Lead

NHS; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in London seeks a dedicated nurse leader to coordinate clinical services and manage clinical teams in a hybrid working role. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with health regulations and delivering safe patient care, with a focus on leadership in sexual health and abortion services. The ideal candidate must hold current NMC registration and possess effective communication skills.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Midwife with up-to-date knowledge in sexual health services.
• Experience in managing clinical teams and compliance requirements.
• Ability to defuse challenging situations effectively.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care delivery within clinical services.
• Support management of the clinical team to ensure patient safety.
• Lead and develop clinics in compliance with health regulations.

Skills

Communication skills

Team leadership

Conflict resolution

Patient care

Education

Current Nurse and Midwifery Council registration

Professional nurse education teaching qualifications

Recognised qualification in Independent/Supplementary Prescribing

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to support with the co-ordination of care delivery within NUPAS London (Finchley, Kilburn and Essex) clinical services. This is a hybrid role and your working week will consist of a mixture of clinic and homeworking (3 daysclinical and 1 management day).

The post holder will assist the Regional Clinical Lead to support and manage clinics to achieve group objectives and comply with corporate strategy, using the corporate framework to support the principle of the right of people to limit the size of their family.

Please note that we are unable to sponsor applicants for a certificate of sponsorship.

This advert will close early if there are a lot of applicants, so we encourage you to apply early.

Main duties of the job

To support with the co-ordination of care delivery within clinical services.

To support with the management of the clinical team(s) in order to deliver the safe and effective care of patients.

To promote, support and deliver safe and efficient abortion and associated services in line with the Abortion Act 1967, Department of Health RSOPs, and medical guidelines across our acute day care treatment centres.

The post holder will be well acquainted with Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulations and understand the importance of compliance.

The post holder will support in the development of clinical practices in order to meet the requirements of national and local strategies and guidance.

The post holder will be experienced in providing appropriate family planning and sexual health care and provide leadership for the development of nurse led services.

The post holder will support the development of systems, processes, and procedures.

The post holder will work closely with the Regional Clinical Lead to ensure there is a seamless patient focused service ensuring that the experience provided to the patient simultaneously meets CQC regulations, NUPAS own excellent high standards and markets the service - encouraging growth.

The post holder will support the Regional Clinical Lead by providing leadership and management, to the wider clinical team.

Work with the Regional Clinical Lead to support and develop Nurse Led Clinics, including workforce planning and educational development.

About us

Pro-choice is a must.

The post holder will have a duty to ensure that the principles of patient, carer and public involvement and engagement are adhered to in line with Section 11 of The Health and Social Care Act 2012 for Improving Patient Experience.

NUPAS is committed to safeguarding and safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults is everyone's responsibility.

Onboarding checks are undertaken in line with the NHS Employment Checking Standards including an enhanced disclosure check under the Disclosing and Barring Service.

All staff are required to adhere to the principles of patient centred care as detailed in the NICE Quality Standard for Patient Experience and to treat patients with dignity, kindness, compassion, courtesy, respect, understanding and honesty.

The post holder will, in support of the NUPAS visions & values, ensure that everyone is treated as an individual, and will acknowledge and value difference in order to treat everyone fairly.

Job responsibilities

To support with the co-ordination of care delivery within NUPAS clinical services. The post holder will assist the Regional Clinical Lead to support and manage clinics to achieve group objectives and comply with corporate strategy, using the corporate framework to support the principle of the right of people to limit the size of their family.

Support the Regional Clinical Lead to ensure compliance with statutory and mandatory training requirements and ensure that all clinical staff across the region comply with the requirements, managing concerns at a local level before escalating to the Regional Clinical Lead.

Provide induction, training and support to new staff and ensure that their development needs are appropriately met in line with NUPAS competency assessment training frameworks.

Undertake appraisals with identified clinical staff to identify development needs.

In conjunction with the Regional Clinical Lead, ensure learning needs have been identified through the appraisal process.

To manage own workload in line with NUPAS visions and values.

To engage in own supervision and development to ensure clinical knowledge is up to date.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current Nurse and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration as a Registered Nurse (Sub part 1 of the NMC register)/Registered Midwife Up to date knowledge and experience of working in a sexual health/TOP/gynae service. Identify and escalate any risk or safeguarding concerns to senior colleagues and actively seek to reduce or eliminate those concerns identified in a positive manner. To embrace safeguarding mechanisms and support staff, patients and supporters at times when safeguarding principles need to be applied.
• Professional nurse education teaching qualifications. Faculty of Reproductive Sexual Healthcare (FSRH Letter of Competence in intrauterine techniques i.e. IUS/IDU fitter) Recognised qualification in Independent/Supplementary Prescribing. Ultrasound scanning experience in first and second stage trimester.

Experience

• Ability to communicate effectively, Ability to identify and quickly defuse challenging situations. Ability to understand boundaries, and work in a sensitive, confidential and non-judgemental way. Able to work effectively as a member of a team and contribute effectively with internal/external multi professional teams, demonstrating effective leadership skills.
• Experience working to Patient Group Directions Experience of using IT systems to input, store and retrieve client data Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams.

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.