Safe Staffing & Bed Capacity Clinical Team Leader

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Clinical Team Leader to join their Safe Staffing and Bed Capacity team in Exeter. This role requires a passionate individual committed to delivering high-quality care while managing complex inpatient processes. You will support staffing management, ensure compliance with governance, and facilitate patient transfers, all while working collaboratively with senior clinicians. If you're motivated, resilient, and adaptable to change, this opportunity offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in mental health services. Join a team that values quality care and promotes a culture of co-production with patients and families.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing complex inpatient admissions and discharges.
• Skilled in operational management and staff management.

Responsibilities

• Support management of temporary staffing and bed capacity.
• Ensure compliance with national requirements and governance.
• Facilitate patient transfers and discharges.

Skills

Management of complex inpatient admissions/discharges

Staff management

Operational Management

IT skills

Project management

Education

Qualified RMN Nurse/Allied Mental Health professional

Training to level 3 in Safeguarding Adults

NMC/Professional Body Registered

Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism

Tools

IT packages and equipment

Job description

Safe Staffing & Bed Capacity Clinical Team Leader

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Team Leader to join the Safe Staffing and Bed Capacity team based at Wonford House in Exeter.

We are looking for a Clinical Team Leader who is passionate about caring and committed to delivering the highest quality of care, who can demonstrate commitment, innovation, and a positive attitude, with the ability to engage service users and carers in all aspects of their care. To thrive in this role, you need to be resilient, motivated, and committed to adapting to working in an ever-changing environment.

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate how they plan to carry out the role and their commitment to team working. The successful applicant will have the ability to work under pressure and offer holistic care.

Main duties of the job

• Support the management and expenditure of all temporary staffing throughout the Trust including all bank and agency staffing, but excluding Medical Staffing.
• Work in conjunction with senior clinicians and managers to identify required resources, timescales, and review establishment.
• Support the bed management process across all adult and older persons inpatient units, to include Out of Area beds when required.
• Ensure compliance with National requirements, internal governance, and improvement plans.
• Deputise in the absence of the Corporate Services Manager.
• Undertake the role of clinical in-reach for people placed in Devon beds not in their locality and who do not have an allocated recovery coordinator, acting in the role of recovery coordinator until allocated or discharged from the ward.
• Ensure robust support is in place for all people placed out of area or out of locality, including their carers and families.
• Support and facilitate the movement and transfer of patients to the correct locality as appropriate.
• Support and facilitate the discharge of patients within other localities to their respective areas of residence.
• Provide relevant supervision and guidance to the Band 6 repatriation officers.

About us

We provide mental health, learning disability, and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part-time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity, or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Extensive experience of managing complex inpatient admissions/discharges.
• Experience of working at a management level.
• Experience of managing staff.
• Experience of Operational Management/ward management.
• Management of complex systems and processes.
• Skilled and competent in the use of IT packages and equipment.

Qualifications

• Qualified RMN Nurse/Allied Mental Health professional.
• Training to level 3 in Safeguarding Adults: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.
• NMC/Professional Body Registered.
• Project management knowledge to masters level or equivalent.
• Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism.
• IT Skills.

Knowledge

• Management of change.
• Knowledge of inpatient wards.
• Knowledge of managing inpatient rotas.
• Local Admissions and Discharge Protocols and Escalation policies.
• Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
• Significant knowledge of managing work streams and delivering on target.

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.