Home First Emergency Care Therapy Team Leader

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a three-month Home First Emergency Care Therapy Team Leader to provide senior clinical leadership for admission avoidance, discharge planning and patient flow across emergency, inpatient and community care.

The role involves complex home visits, multidisciplinary discharge meetings and weekend/Bank Holiday work, with supervision responsibilities for therapy colleagues.

Qualifications

• Post-registration knowledge relevant to rehabilitation and NHS policy.
• Ability to lead complex discharge planning and patient flow across services.
• Experience delivering education and supervision to therapy staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical leadership across ED, admission avoidance, Home First and discharge pathways.
• Identify patients who can be safely supported in the community to help prevent admission.
• Assess patients and coordinate safe, timely discharge planning.
• Lead complex clinical decisions, risk assessments and patient flow management.
• Triage patients ready for discharge using Home First approaches.
• Support complex home visits with the multidisciplinary team.
• Attend MDT meetings to support discharge planning and patient flow.
• Supervise and develop therapy staff including appraisals and HR duties.
• Provide staff education and act as a role model in practice.

Skills

Advanced leadership

Advanced communication

Analytical thinking

Clinical decision-making

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Audit skills

Teamwork

Education

Pre-registration degree/diploma/MSc

Clinical Educator Training

Job description

The three-month Home First Emergency Care Therapy Team Leader post sits in Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Integrated Placement of Care Team (IPOCH). It provides senior clinical leadership for admission avoidance, discharge planning and patient flow across emergency, inpatient and community care. The role includes complex home visits, multidisciplinary discharge meetings and weekend and Bank Holiday working, with supervision responsibilities for therapy colleagues. Applicants need HCPC registration and a driving licence with access to their own vehicle.

What the job involves

• Provide advanced clinical leadership across ED, admission avoidance, Home First and discharge pathways
• Identify patients who can be safely supported in the community to help prevent admission
• Assess patients and coordinate safe, timely discharge planning
• Lead complex clinical decisions, risk assessments and patient flow management
• Triage patients ready for discharge using Proportionate Care and Home First approaches
• Support complex home visits with the wider multidisciplinary team
• Attend hospital MDT meetings to support discharge planning and patient flow
• Supervise, support and develop therapy staff and support workers, including through one-to-ones, appraisals, sickness management and other HR responsibilities
• Provide staff education and act as a role model for good practice
• Work with acute, community, primary care, social care and voluntary sector partners
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and transformation programmes
• Support performance measures for discharge, length of stay, admission avoidance and patient outcomes

What’s required

Qualifications

• Relevant pre-registration professional degree, diploma or MSc
• Clinical Educator Training

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration

Experience

• Contributing to service delivery and developing evidence-led practice in a changing environment, including service development
• Managing a specialist complex patient caseload relevant to the post
• Working in a CCT at Band 6 level
• Providing leadership with diverse stakeholders in a rehabilitation setting
• Planning and completing audit and research, teaching and mentoring staff, and undertaking projects

Skills & knowledge

• Post-registration knowledge relevant to the specialty, including NHS legislation, recommendations, national and local priorities, and changing trends
• Analysing complex issues, balancing competing priorities and making clinical decisions at all levels
• Demonstrating leadership when introducing change
• Advanced communication and listening skills to influence, persuade, present balanced views and question information constructively
• Interpersonal, organisational and audit skills; coordinating and prioritising workloads and multitasking
• Working autonomously and in a team, under pressure, with self-discipline, motivation and initiative; supporting colleagues and adapting to deliver patient care

Checks & eligibility

• Driving licence and access to own vehicle

Other

• Weekend and Bank Holiday working

Nice to have

• Post-registration Master’s in a relevant area, advanced communication qualification or relevant specialist interest group membership
• Inspiring and motivating teams, with passionate and effective communication
• Negotiating effectively within an MDT or across services and providers
• Personal credibility, emotional intelligence, patience and flexibility
• Coping with unpredictable situations and confidently facilitating and challenging others
• Previous supervisory experience
• Working in an integrated team and across health and social care organisational boundaries
• Fundamentals of change training