Band 7 Diana Service Clinical Team leader CCT

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Diana Childrens Community Service as a Band 7 CCT Clinical Team Leader. This team delivers support to C/YP with complex health care needs across LLR. Care packages can include home based respite delivered by a team of competent Band 4 Specialist Practitioners, NA's and Nurses.

We are looking to recruit an individual with excellent partnership, networking and communication skills who has clinical and operational management experience, strong collective leadership skills that can motivate individuals and teams to build and sustain change.

The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of working in the community, and the complexities of working within a family as well as a multidisciplinary, multiagency environment; be familiar with children's complex health needs and the importance of training and delegating clinical competencies. The successful candidate will need to possess the clinical competencies to lead the team ensuring safe care is always delivered. You will also be part of the Diana on-call team providing out of hours to C/YP at end of life.

You are required to lead a team of practitioners and support other staff across teams in the wider Diana Service, therefore excellent communication and strong leadership skills are essential. The post is positioned within the Diana leadership team and therefore will have additional, specified leadership responsibilities across the service and FYPC/LD.

Main duties of the job

• Clinically lead the Continuing Care Team within the Diana Service, in line with policy and procedure to enable the safe management of specific health needs and appropriate delegation of aspects of care, using necessary documentation for Leicestershire Partnership Trust.
• Support the Continuing Care Team delivering packages of care in the community in a safe and effective way, working alongside children/young people and their families, acute hospitals, commissioners, and the wider MDT.
• Support other members of the Diana Leadership team in the delivery of effective leadership and communication, attendance at meetings providing expertise and information.
• Alongside the Diana Service Clinical Leads develop the annual training programme for the workforce across the Diana team. Ensure that staff are supported to achieve service expectations for clinical competence.
• Develop the service to ensure the health needs of children in the community are met highlighting any gaps to management and commissioners.
• Ensure and support the current nursing workforce to meet current service demand in relation to clinical competence.
• Proactively contribute to the longer-term work force development to ensure that the service can meet future clinical demands.
• To participate in the on-call service provided to staff and end of life children and young people within LLR.

We are currently based at Bridge Park Plaza, Thurmaston. We will be moving to County Hall, Glenfield Hospital site from Spring 2024.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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