Job summary
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As part of our Home 1st service, you will be working with a highly motivated and innovative team to lead on the community inpatient pathway.
As a team we are passionate about putting patients first and working with our multiple stakeholders to facilitate safe discharge to our Seacole Virtual Hospital which you would be leading on for our community. The virtual hospital is set within 4 sites across Milton Keynes and includes our Windsor Intermediate Care Unit which is a 19 bedded rehabilitation unit.
Since the set up of Seacole in 2020, it has gone from strength to strength and has been influential in our approach to placing patients at the centre of all that we do and has resulted in robust partnership working with our stakeholders. Our vision is for integrated, seamless transfers of patient care for our patient groups, high quality patient focused outcomes and exceptional patient experiences.
If you enjoy complex caseload management and exploring all aspects of delivery of care that ensure the service we offer to our community is of high quality with exceptional patient experience then we want to hear from you.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and innovative leader to oversee the Seacole Hospital and provide high quality clinical and transformation leadership for a fixed term period of 9 months to cover maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality clinical leadership for WICU (a 19 bedded intermediate care unit) and the wider Seacole Community Hospital (51 bedded virtual hospital).
To provide transformational leadership and service modernisation to the pathway.
To enhance the development of evidence based clinical practice for inpatient rehabilitation.
To provide clear operational leadership to the team to ensure compliance, safety and quality at all times.
To be aware of the national guidelines for in- patient care and to implement an appropriate strategy within the unit.
To work with the service manager and the wider MK system partners to review and develop new pathways of care as identified.
About us
We can offer opportunities for daily debriefs, access to remote working, regular 1:1 formal and informal supervision, peer group CPD sessions and in-service training, QI project work and volunteering for champion roles.
Home1st is based in Bletchley and the modern office is a central hub for multi-disciplinary working. You will be provided with ICT laptop, mobile phone, uniform and have mileage expenses paid for.
And if you thought there was something more you were looking for, then CNWL can offer:
- Flexible working
- Buying and selling annual leave
- An attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits from dependents, ill health retirement benefits and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay)
- Employee assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
- Staying well at work service for tailored employment related support to staff
- Staff wellbeing zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
- The Recovery College offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
- A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) network
- Disabled employee's network
- Lived Experience of Mental Health staff network
- Carers at Work network
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for a detailed job description and full list of main duties and responsibilities
PRINCIPAL DUTIES
- Responsible for managing WICU and the Seacole Hospital by ensuring there are safe systems of working that support Patient and Staff Safety, Quality, Effectiveness and Compliance.
- Responsible for ensuring there are robust clinical processes for admission and discharge, management of the patient whilst on the unit and the deteriorating patient.
- To provide clinical and professional leadership to the team.
- To be part of the MDT for the unit, ensuring that patients have the appropriate level of input to optimise their rehabilitation in preparation for returning to their primary place of residence.
- To ensure safe staffing levels for the unit and manage recruitment and retention to support this.
- To work closely with the GPs, Community Services, the Home 1st Therapy, Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward teams and MKUHFT to ensure appropriate and safe admissions to the unit.
- To work with the Home 1st Therapies and Reablement teams and MKC Social Care to ensure timely supported discharge from the unit to the patients primary place of residence.
- Monitor compliance with KPIs and where necessary develop robust action plans to address non- compliance.
- To assess compliance with CQC standards and where necessary develop robust action plans to bring the unit in line to achieve a minimum rating of Good.
- To appropriately represent CNWL and Home 1st services internally and externally.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for a detailed job description and full list of main duties and responsibilities
PRINCIPAL DUTIES
- Responsible for managing WICU and the Seacole Hospital by ensuring there are safe systems of working that support Patient and Staff Safety, Quality, Effectiveness and Compliance.
- Responsible for ensuring there are robust clinical processes for admission and discharge, management of the patient whilst on the unit and the deteriorating patient.
- To provide clinical and professional leadership to the team.
- To be part of the MDT for the unit, ensuring that patients have the appropriate level of input to optimise their rehabilitation in preparation for returning to their primary place of residence.
- To ensure safe staffing levels for the unit and manage recruitment and retention to support this.
- To work closely with the GPs, Community Services, the Home 1st Therapy, Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward teams and MKUHFT to ensure appropriate and safe admissions to the unit.
- To work with the Home 1st Therapies and Reablement teams and MKC Social Care to ensure timely supported discharge from the unit to the patients primary place of residence.
- Monitor compliance with KPIs and where necessary develop robust action plans to address non- compliance.
- To assess compliance with CQC standards and where necessary develop robust action plans to bring the unit in line to achieve a minimum rating of Good.
- To appropriately represent CNWL and Home 1st services internally and externally.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Experience
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse with consolidated years post registration experience
- oEducated to Masters level/ equivalent of / willingness to work towards.
- oLeadership/ management experience
- oExperience of working within acute or community nursing and or knowledge of intermediate care services
- oEvidence of working within a Multi- disciplinary team
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of monitoring KPIs and CQC standards and where necessary developing robust action plans to address any gaps
- Evidence of undertaking audit for service development
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Experience
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse with consolidated years post registration experience
- oEducated to Masters level/ equivalent of / willingness to work towards.
- oLeadership/ management experience
- oExperience of working within acute or community nursing and or knowledge of intermediate care services
- oEvidence of working within a Multi- disciplinary team
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of monitoring KPIs and CQC standards and where necessary developing robust action plans to address any gaps
- Evidence of undertaking audit for service development
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).
