Job summary
This role is an integrated position working between Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust to support the early discharge putting emphasis on valuing patient time. The post holder will work with the multidisciplinary teams in identifying and delivering a wide variety of quality improvements methods that will support identification and interventions required to reduce wasted time for patients in their journey of care and treatments through the hospital system, back out into community settings. The role will work closely with staff in clinical areas using appropriate tools, systems and processes that support the trusts capacity and flow 'home first' programme. The role for wards and clinical areas will have an emphasis on quality improvement methodology to assure delivery of excellence in patient and carers care provision which will ensureat the centre of the system is the patient receiving acute care and/or their carers whose roles should be involvement at all stages of the journey and decision making from admission to discharge.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide leadership in support creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellence promoting high expectations and ambitions together high achievement by providing advice, guidance and support and coaching to ward staff and their teams on quality and safety.To provide effective and visible clinical leadership that will support wards and clinical teams on their quality improvement plans with specific focus on patient flow leading to safe, timely and effective discharges.Initiate and develop implementation of data collection and subsequentimprovements to measure and enhance quality outcomes related to SAFER care bundles and home first methodology for patients and their carer's.Work in partnership with the wider system, to develop discharge processes and to escalate any challenges / issues appropriately.Identify areas for improvement and make recommendations utilising improvement methodology which will drive service improvement.Provide learning opportunities for staff on safe, timely discharge for wards and clinical areas both formally and informally.
The successful candidate will support the development of pathways out of LUHFT ensuring appropriate use of all community resources including Intermediate Care beds.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description for Main responsibilities. Successful applicant will be expected to be based within the Acute Hospitals
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description for Main responsibilities. Successful applicant will be expected to be based within the Acute Hospitals
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist
- Masters level or Professional qualification or equivalent experience
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of change management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Experience of patient flow schemes
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Current senior nursing experience
- Experience of developing and maintaining compliance and / or performance management processes
- Experience of interpreting standards, identifying and gathering evidence and carrying out assessments
- Evidence of motivating staff to take part in successfully changing practice
- Evidence of staff management and leadership
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Office Applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Desirable
- Experience of risk management
- Experience of change management and support staff with transformation care initiatives
- Experience of supporting colleagues through cultural change programmes
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of performance management processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including clear report writing and presentation
- Ability to negotiate, influence and liaise effectively with staff at all levels
- Excellent motivational skills
- Excellent organisational skills, especially in relation to data gathering, and interpretation
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Skilled in training / presenting to large groups of staff
- Extensive analytical skills in relation to complex information and data
- Ability to interrogate, manipulate and challenge complex data
- Ability to keep abreast of and interpret national policy development
- Working knowledge of clinical health care combined with an understanding of the associated terminology
- Expert knowledge of healthcare standards and risk management standards applied to the NHS and the means by which they are assessed
- Clear understanding of Risk Management principles
- Maintaining electronic and manual databases
- Training staff or making presentations to all grades of staff
- Skilled in developing and implementing action plans
Desirable
- skilled in systems administration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist
- Masters level or Professional qualification or equivalent experience
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of change management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Experience of patient flow schemes
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Current senior nursing experience
- Experience of developing and maintaining compliance and / or performance management processes
- Experience of interpreting standards, identifying and gathering evidence and carrying out assessments
- Evidence of motivating staff to take part in successfully changing practice
- Evidence of staff management and leadership
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Office Applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Desirable
- Experience of risk management
- Experience of change management and support staff with transformation care initiatives
- Experience of supporting colleagues through cultural change programmes
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of performance management processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including clear report writing and presentation
- Ability to negotiate, influence and liaise effectively with staff at all levels
- Excellent motivational skills
- Excellent organisational skills, especially in relation to data gathering, and interpretation
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Skilled in training / presenting to large groups of staff
- Extensive analytical skills in relation to complex information and data
- Ability to interrogate, manipulate and challenge complex data
- Ability to keep abreast of and interpret national policy development
- Working knowledge of clinical health care combined with an understanding of the associated terminology
- Expert knowledge of healthcare standards and risk management standards applied to the NHS and the means by which they are assessed
- Clear understanding of Risk Management principles
- Maintaining electronic and manual databases
- Training staff or making presentations to all grades of staff
- Skilled in developing and implementing action plans
Desirable
- skilled in systems administration
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).
