Job summary
In this role you will provide clinical leadership for the Intermediate Care Therapy West teams, ensuring the service is safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well-led. You will report directly to the Operational Lead and Therapy Lead(s), being accountable for the quality and performance status of your service, and will deputise for the Operational Lead and Therapy Leads in their absence.
You will work closely with multi-disciplinary leads to ensure the delivery of high quality multi-disciplinary care and positive patient experience, ensuring the service is patient-centred and evidenced-based.
Main duties of the job
a) To provide Clinical and Professional Leadership, ensuring effective governance for staff working in allocated area or service.
b) To work with the professional leads to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
c) To embed the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross-skilling for all staff, including implementing the competency frameworks.
d) To provide specialist clinical advice, assessment, and intervention regarding complex patients as required.
e) To report, investigate, and manage incidents; sharing learning from incidents and risk with the team and wider organisation as appropriate.
f) To manage complaints in accordance with Trust policy and share learning across the team.
g) To line manage allocated staff to include, recruitment process, sickness and absence monitoring, and disciplinary / performance issues.
Please refer to the job description for details on the main duties.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
a) To retain own clinical competency to carry out assessment, treatment, rehab interventions and to contribute to timely discharge where appropriate, particularly for highly complex patients.
b) To use advanced knowledge, skills, and expertise to facilitate and drive future service development.
c) To work with Professional Leads to ensure delivery of evidenced based clinical practice.
d) To facilitate the delivery of a robust clinical supervision structure is in place in line with Trust policy.
e) To ensure all staff work to appropriate competency frameworks and manage performance of individuals through the appraisal and supervision process.
f) To work collaboratively with other leads to facilitate effective operational management of allocated services.
g) To ensure the service functions within financial constraints through collaborative working with the budget holders, and to contribute to the annual business planning process.
h) To ensure effective delegation as per Trust guidelines and to support the implementation of the Calderdale framework and skill sharing initiatives.
i) To manage own caseload of complex cases within defined clinical area.
Please refer to the job description for details on the main responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
a) To retain own clinical competency to carry out assessment, treatment, rehab interventions and to contribute to timely discharge where appropriate, particularly for highly complex patients.
b) To use advanced knowledge, skills, and expertise to facilitate and drive future service development.
c) To work with Professional Leads to ensure delivery of evidenced based clinical practice.
d) To facilitate the delivery of a robust clinical supervision structure is in place in line with Trust policy.
e) To ensure all staff work to appropriate competency frameworks and manage performance of individuals through the appraisal and supervision process.
f) To work collaboratively with other leads to facilitate effective operational management of allocated services.
g) To ensure the service functions within financial constraints through collaborative working with the budget holders, and to contribute to the annual business planning process.
h) To ensure effective delegation as per Trust guidelines and to support the implementation of the Calderdale framework and skill sharing initiatives.
i) To manage own caseload of complex cases within defined clinical area.
Please refer to the job description for details on the main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
Essential
- Degree / postgraduate Diploma / or equivalent
- HCPC Registration
- Management qualification or willingness to undertake
- Evidence of a range of Clinical competencies appropriate for the role
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Evidence of leadership education / development or a willingness to undertake this
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of supervision provision
- Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
Desirable
- Minimum of 4 years postgraduate experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
- Demonstrates excellence in communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
- Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
- Demonstrates an ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development
- Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
- Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations
- Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
Essential
- Degree / postgraduate Diploma / or equivalent
- HCPC Registration
- Management qualification or willingness to undertake
- Evidence of a range of Clinical competencies appropriate for the role
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Evidence of leadership education / development or a willingness to undertake this
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of supervision provision
- Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
Desirable
- Minimum of 4 years postgraduate experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
- Demonstrates excellence in communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
- Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
- Demonstrates an ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development
- Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
- Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations
- Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
