Clinical Lead for Enhanced Recovery at Home and Phlebotomy Services

Job summary

We are seeking to appoint a clinical lead for the Enhanced Recovery at Home Service and Phlebotomy Service based at Aerodrome House, Gosport, with a satellite office in Havant Health Centre.

We are looking for a motivated individual with excellent communication skills and a talent for leadership who can work autonomously and collaboratively working closely with the urgent community response teams, community nursing and therapy teams as well as with colleagues in Hampshire County Council to support admission avoidance and complex discharges and enable the ERS team to provide care which optimises individuals' functional needs and independence. The role will include the provision of strong leadership to the team of care coordinators, care assessors, health care support workers, phlebotomists, and administrative assistants, including day to day leadership responsibilities, service development, and responsive leadership, enabling the team to achieve a 'well led' culture.

The clinical lead will participate in and influence efforts across health and social services to shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve quality of life, promote self-management, and assure early intervention through proactive provision of care in the patients' own homes.

Once established in the role there will be opportunity to work clinically as part of the admission avoidance/urgent community response service.

Main duties of the job

Enhanced Recovery at Home Service, or ERS, is a team of health care support workers, assessors and care coordinators who provide care/support packages which are recovery focussed and support people to regain and/or maximise their independence. The clinical lead for ERS aspires to provide a responsive, safe, effective and caring service to patients requiring care/support/reablement including personal care, simple meal preparation, general confidence building and signposing to available support services including third sector, community health and social care services. The service operates from Aerodrome House, Gosport, with a satellite office in Havant Health Centre and delivers services to people living in Fareham, Gosport and South East Hampshire. ERS work closely with urgent community response teams, community nursing and therapy teams and with colleagues in Hampshire County Council to support admission avoidance and complex discharges, optimising individuals' functional needs and independence. Through comprehensive training and competency programmes, ERS staff are able to take physical observations and recognise risks to skin pressure areas. This enables the team to quickly identify a deteriorating patient and support them to access the appropriate service.

The phlebotomy team is a domicillary service across Fareham, Gosport and SE Hampshire collecting blood samples on behalf of the community nursing services and routine as part of the INR service.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aerodrome House

Fratergate Business Park, Aerodrome Road

Gosport

Hampshire

PO13 0GY

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aerodrome House

Fratergate Business Park, Aerodrome Road

Gosport

Hampshire

PO13 0GY

Employer's website

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

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