Intermediate Care Clinical Team Lead

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established health and social care organization is seeking a dedicated leader to manage community services for adults and older people. This role involves overseeing patient pathways, ensuring timely discharges, and enhancing care quality through effective team collaboration. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, fostering a culture of high-quality service provision. Join a team committed to compassionate care and make a significant impact on patient experiences in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in care for adults and older people.
• Evidence of effective leadership in multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership on admission avoidance and discharge processes.
• Manage staff allocation and ensure effective patient care.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Care Management

Education

Registered Physiotherapist

Degree Level Education

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Providing leadership and management on matters relating to admission avoidance, early supported discharge, transfer of care process.
• Work closely with the MDT and coordinators, integrating working practices to streamline processes, share knowledge, and benefit patient experience, outcomes and flow.
• Manage systems to ensure the effective allocation and deployment of staff.
• Act as a resource for the team and others involved in the patient pathway, providing advice to facilitate timely discharge and flow through the pathway and with the aim of reducing hospital stays, maximising patient independence, enabling patients to receive the right care at the right time in the right place.
• Ensure systems and processes are in place to receive and prioritise referrals to the team and delegation to staff
• Ensure own leadership style facilitates effective communication, collaboration and motivation of staff and partners to achieve effective transfer of care.
• Work collaboratively with the team and professional leads to support professional and practice developments including CPFT Clinical Supervision framework
• To ensure the effective daily delivery of the service in the community responding to needs identified in the community or following hospital admission

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven record of experience and achievement in the care of adults and older people
• Evidence of effective leadership management in multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrate effective liaison with care providers, voluntary and statutory partners
• Knowledge of the chronic long-term conditions effecting adults and older people

Desirable criteria

• Budget management
• Managing across sites

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered physiotherapist or registered occupational therapist.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Demonstrate continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

• Management qualification

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Demonstrates leadership ability
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good working relationships with all levels or people
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Desirable criteria

• Experience in training and education

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

• Accepts responsibility and professional accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
• Recognises the limits of own authority within the role.
• Demonstrates professional curiosity.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Intermediate Care Team Lead B7 JDPS (PDF, 219.1KB)
• CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
• CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
• CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)