Clinical Manager

Job summary

HIOW Healthcare are looking for an inspirational adult registered nurse to work as a Clinical Manager to be responsible for the management of Community Nurses as part of the Locality Health Team, with responsibility for ensuring safe staffing levels, optimum use of resources and continuity of high quality service delivery. The Clinical Manager will maintain a clinical caseload, whilst providing supervision and support for clinical staff day to day.

Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services, both within the Trust and external providers, to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

This is a fulltime role 37.5 hrs pw based at Oakley Road in Southampton. Our working patterns are across a 7 day week. Our core shifts are 0830 to 1630 and 1200 to 2000 hrs. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as bank holidays.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for the operational management of a community team that are part of the Locality Health Team with responsibility for ensuring safe staffing levels, optimum use of resources and continuity of high-quality service delivery.

To maintain a clinical caseload but with a specific focus on supervision & support for clinical staff day to day, providing specialist clinical knowledge for complex cases & collaborative working with colleagues in primary, community secondary health & social care organisations.

Work as an accountable and autonomous senior clinician pro-actively treating, monitoring & anticipating changing needs of patients who have complex/and or chronic presentation to improve health outcomes & manage risk by increasing support enabling them to remain in their home/community & reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

Delivering on the organisational objectives to meet individual health care needs through high quality, safe & effective services to avoid unnecessary admissions to secondary care, support early discharge from hospital, effective case management for patients with complex long term conditions or following an acute health episode & individualised care for the patient & carers at the end of life.

The post-holder will be required to demonstrate a high degree of autonomy & professional accountability, working within the Nursing & Midwifery guidelines to have responsibility for the management of a defined Community Nursing caseload within 1 or more GP practices.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oakley Road

Millbrook

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4GX

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oakley Road

Millbrook

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4GX

Employer's website

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

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