Job summary
- Main area
- Community Services - Community Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours over 7 days including bank holidays and weekends covering operational hours 08:00-20:00)
- Job ref
- 382-FICC123-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rapid Response, The Stadium
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the proactive and enthusiastic Rapid Response Team (South) is looking to appoint a highly motivated Clinical Lead Nurse to join our Rapid Response Team. The post holder will work as a member of the multi disciplinary team supporting the Team Leader and her deputies in the delivery of the Rapid Response Service, supporting the development of the Rapid Response Team and raising the profile of the Rapid Response Service.
Rapid Response’s aim is to preventing hospital admission or facilitating early discharge from hospital by providing intensive packages of care to manage acutely and chronically ill patients at home.
Rapid Response is a multi-disciplinary team with support workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and Nurses providing integrated skills and sharing knowledge.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work collaboratively with others and support members of the team in the delivery, and management of complex health issues.
In particular they will be responsible for ensuring the timely provision of a high standard of assessment, advice, planning, implementation, training support and evaluation of care for Rapid Response, 2hr Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards.
A broad range of Nursing knowledge, interventions and skills are required. With a particular emphasis on the care of the respiratory patient at home.
You will have experience of working collaboratively within a community or acute setting. The post-holder will have excellent assessment, and intervention skills. You will be able to carry out comprehensive assessments and make autonomous decisions based on the data obtained. You will have the opportunity to provide client-centered assessments and interventions for a caseload of patients with acute illness.
You will also offer clinical supervision/support to other Nursing and support staff. The role requires good communication skills and an ability to work as an effective member of a multi-disciplinary nurse led team as well as with other external agencies.
A high level of inter-professional working exists in the Rapid Response Team giving the opportunity for you to develop and transfer your clinical skills.
This role will have a focus around the clinical governance of the service.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and offers a full range of District Hospital services and Community Health services to this population.
Commitment to undertake ongoing in-service training and development is essential. You should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change. Our commitment to you is to provide the environment for this to happen an ensure that you are part of a defined preceptorship programme.
If you are motivated to deliver high standards of care and have the personal qualities and characteristics as outlined in the Blackpool person then this could be the post for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This will include but is not exhaustive to:
- Supporting the delivery of an integrated approach to patient care across all professions.
- Identifying and addressing areas of clinical development across the service.
- Providing training from their own area of expertise.
- Managing the performance of staff.
- Managing complex issues in the care of patients such as safeguarding risks or self neglect.
- Ensuring safe staffing levels are in place
- Supporting the wellbeing of staff.
- Deputising in the absence of the Team Leader
- Facilitating effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as other primary care teams and GP Practice staff.
This role would suit an individual with leadership experience and a dynamic mindset regarding how the service can best meet it's current and future objectives.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Clinical qualification to degree level or equivalent.
- Training and experience in clinical management.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
- V300 qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 3 years post registration clinical experience in a community setting at band 6
- Experience managing people.
- Experience managing change.
- Problem solving.
- Multidisciplinary/ Multi-agency working.
- Experience leading a team
- Experience in handling complaints
- Facilitating/chairing meetings
- Experience/awareness of HR processes, eg recruitment, absence management, staff management
- Experience of advanced nursing assessments and interventions
- Consultation and Physical Examination Skill
- Experience of managing respiratory
SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills.
- Leadership skills.
- Able to manage through influence/ negotiation.
- Able to overcome barriers to acceptance through interpersonal and communication skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Ability to interpret and present data.
- Organisational skills- time management, meeting deadlines, planning, monitoring/ evaluation. Ability to work unsupervised using own initiative.
- Relevant NHS and local authority policies/ agendas.
- Awareness of clinical governance and standards for better health.
- Awareness of the wider context of health service delivery.
- Understanding of relevant national service frameworks and their implications on provider services.
- An understanding of the strategic vision of the Trust.
- An understanding of Trust financial processes.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Marquis
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 951068
- Additional information
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