Clinical Team Lead - Early Years and NICU

Job description

Job responsibilities

COMMUNICATION

1. Communicate with professionals, patients and families/carers in a professional manner and appropriate to the individual using a range of mediums and techniques including letters, reports, groups, verbal, emails and onward referral.

2. Act as an advocate on behalf of patients.

3. Deal with challenging situations using conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

4. Provide early intervention of HR issues such as performance, disputes, behaviour, sickness etc with the support of HR and operational management.

5. Advise and support your team in adapting communication skills to meet individual patients needs.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Ensure compliance with mandatory training for yourself and your team.

2. Take responsibility for own professional development and the development of your team using a training needs analysis and competency framework across a variety of settings and patient groups and clinical pathways.

3. Provide regular supervision and feedback to your team to facilitate self-development.

4. Plan, organise and deliver training to students, assistants, junior staff and colleagues including wider multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as required.

5. Lead on and participate in research and development activities as required.

6. Provide training to other health care professions, both undergraduate and post graduate level.

7. Review, update and produce guidelines/procedures and educational resources that reflect national guidance/clinical standards and evidence-based practice.

ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Work closely with the operational service lead, Head of Service and clinical leads to interpret and implement Trust and Directorate targets, national guidelines and AHP strategies within your specialist area.

2. Actively contribute to the development and delivery of the Therapies Directorate and service level business and improvement plans.

3. Undertake line management duties including rostering, job planning, appraisals, clinical supervision, approval of travel expenses, sickness monitoring and support etc.

4. Undertake a team leader role in the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluation of the designated clinical service.

5. Identify areas for, lead and implement, continual improvement, underpinned by evidence-based practice.

6. Lead on the performance management of the designated clinical team across a range of Quality, Delivery, Finance and People measures.

7. Lead on the recruitment and retention of staff, ensuring competency frameworks are in place, supporting staff through probationary and preceptorship with training and feedback. Facilitate the ongoing development of your team and facilitate rotations of clinical staff where appropriate,

8. Assist the service in involving service users, their families and carers in service evaluation and associated developments.

9. Be responsible for deputising for the Clinical and Operational Service leads.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Ensure you and your team adhere to the HCPC standards of conduct and professional proficiency.

2. Understand and demonstrate the need to respect and uphold the rights dignity and values and autonomy of every service user.

3. Understand your role, and that of your teams, in the process of promoting and maintaining health and wellbeing for patients, self and others.

4. Ensure you and your team operate within the codes of practice outlined in the Trust Behavioural Framework.

5. Undertake the measurement and evaluation of the work of you and your team and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with colleagues. This will include leading on and participating in research and development.

6. Support staff and patients with protected characteristics, to be a role model and ally in challenging and eliminating discrimination of all forms.

7. Undertake as directed the collection of data for use in service audit and research projects. To manage and undertake research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of research methodologies as part of multi-disciplinary team audit and departmental research initiatives.

8. Be actively involved in professional clinical groups, clinical interest groups, peer review, ICS wide review and standardisation of services and professional development initiatives.

9. Promote awareness of the professional role within the Trust and externally.

Person Specification

experience and qualifications

Essential

• Profession specific Degree/ Diploma
• Registration with Health and Care Professions Council
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical service area
• Evidence of management and/or leadership development/ training
• Significant post graduate experience, including experience in a relevant specialist role
• Demonstrate clinical expertise in the management of highly complex patients within clinical area

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Burnley General Hospital

Casterton Ave

Burnley

BB10 2PQ

Employer's website

http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)