Job summary
This
is a brilliant opportunity to be the Clinical Lead for the Children's Business
Unit for the next twelve months.The role will improve safety, experience and
clinical effectiveness providing clinical and professional leadership to the
business unit, whist facilitating the transformation and integration of
services.The role will work alongside the General Manager and support the
delivery of high quality, safe and effective care to the children in our
communities.
Main duties of the job
The
post holder will be responsible for the safe clinical delivery of services and
pathways across the business unit portfolio. Reporting to the Executive
Director of the post holder will work in partnership with the General Manager
and Medical Lead to provide strategic direction and leadership to the childrens
business unit supporting integration and transformation of service delivery.
The post holder will support the Executive Director of Nursing and AHP's by
taking overall responsibility, authority and accountability for the
effectiveness of Clinical Leadership within the business unit and for Nursing
and Allied Health Professional staff involvement in service planning, design,
quality, governance, and delivery (including efficiency).
The post holder will work in partnership with the Medical Lead Director and
have responsibility for the safe clinical delivery of services and pathways
across the business unit portfolio.
About us
Working for Leeds community Healthcare NHS Trust
Who are we?
Leeds Community Healthcare
provides a range of community-based health services across the whole city. We
treat people in their homes, local health centres and community hospitals, and
work in partnership with other local Trusts, charities and Leeds City Council.
We have a strong culture
based on deeply-held values, and our focus at all times is on delivering high
quality care to the people of Leeds. In our most recent CQC evaluation, we were
rated "Good", with our Adult Services rated "Outstanding"
for caring.
Perks of the job
Our benefits range from
generous annual leave to access to NHS discount sites. You can find the full
list of attractive benefits and rewards at www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk click
on the Join Our Team Tab.
Right to Work
This role is based in the
UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK -
either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU settlement scheme or having
secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in
the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider
carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the safe clinical delivery of services and pathways across the business unit portfolio. Reporting to the Executive Director of Operations the post holder will work in partnership with the General Manager and Associate Medical Director to provide strategic direction and leadership to the identified business unit supporting integration and transformation of service delivery.
The post holder will support the Executive (Nurse ) Director of Quality by taking overall responsibility, authority and accountability for the effectiveness of Clinical Leadership within the business unit and for Nursing and Allied Health Professional staff involvement in service planning, design, quality, governance, and delivery (including efficiency).
The post holder will work in partnership with the Associate Medical Director and have responsibility for the safe clinical delivery of services and pathways across the business unit portfolio. They will be responsible for developing new and innovative practices and systems responding to emerging knowledge and techniques by interpreting and implementing national and local drivers.
The post holder will spend a minimum of one day a week in clinical practice and contribute to the first on call rota.
Key Responsibilities
1. Leadership
To develop an overall approach to leadership for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals within the Business Unit that is designed to improve performance and links effectively with other elements of professional and management leadership. Specifically:
- Put in place a clear professional leadership structure covering all specialties and identifying/supporting the Clinical Lead for service planning and design, all aspects of Clinical Governance, teaching and research and develop clinical involvement and influence in these areas.
- Be responsible for the Nursing and Allied Health Professional leadership in the portfolio, taking into account issues impacting internally and externally; proactively seeking creative solutions and sharing learning openly. This includes leading investigations; supporting performance management processes and ensuring complaints have clinical scrutiny that result in organisational learning.
- Actively support matrix professional leadership where required by providing professional leadership to senior staff in other directorates if required to ensure all professions have a clear line of sight from the front line to the board.
- Ensure that a professional service and image is maintained at all time, thereby acting as a role model to all staff
- Provide a leadership style which is underpinned by strongly held values around equality, diversity and openness; effectively builds and maintains relationships with direct reportee(s), colleagues, patients and other key stakeholders
- Lead the quality risk assessment and monitoring of cost improvement programmes at a directorate level
- Demonstrate leadership and innovation in contexts which are unfamiliar, complex, and unpredictable that require solving problems involving many complex interacting factors across the broader health and social care economy.
- Demonstrate clinical leadership, initiative and creativity in developing projects inspiring others to be positive in their contribution to continuous improvement
- Demonstrate a expert knowledge of professional roles and responsibilities in order to explore and develop new and innovative methods of service delivery in order to meet current and new demand
- The post holder will be responsible for the clinical leadership of their portfolio area taking into account issues impacting internally and externally; proactively seeking creative solutions and sharing learning openly. This includes leading investigations; supporting performance management processes and ensuring complaints have clinical scrutiny that result in organisational learning.
- By demonstrating highly developed change management behaviours, the post holder will lead complex projects, which may impact on own or other services, in order to implement key strategies and quality standards
- Demonstrate resilience when responding to challenge, change and complex or difficult situations
- Positively lead clinical pathways to embed the organisational vision and values throughout the service
- Clearly articulate the expected clinical standards of the service, monitors and identifies where standards are not met and takes action to address holding people to account where necessary
- Ability to represent the service at relevant local, regional or national clinical fora
- Lead multi-discipline and multi-agency work streams; the post holder will propose, develop and implement clinical and/or strategic policies and/or service developments; contributing to the planning and management of impacts on other disciplines, services or agencies
- Delegate, organise and prioritise autonomously to ensure the safe delivery of the service and making judgements in complex situations e.g. unexpected service demands
- Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there may be significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Ensure that all objectives, for self and those directly responsible for, are clearly defined within the wider Directorate framework and in line with Trusts objectives, using the appraisal process as a vehicle for this.
- Deliver information to the team and other services, teams or agencies using a variety of means
- Promote and represents portfolio of services at a strategic and clinical level both internal and external to the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the safe clinical delivery of services and pathways across the business unit portfolio. Reporting to the Executive Director of Operations the post holder will work in partnership with the General Manager and Associate Medical Director to provide strategic direction and leadership to the identified business unit supporting integration and transformation of service delivery.
The post holder will support the Executive (Nurse ) Director of Quality by taking overall responsibility, authority and accountability for the effectiveness of Clinical Leadership within the business unit and for Nursing and Allied Health Professional staff involvement in service planning, design, quality, governance, and delivery (including efficiency).
The post holder will work in partnership with the Associate Medical Director and have responsibility for the safe clinical delivery of services and pathways across the business unit portfolio. They will be responsible for developing new and innovative practices and systems responding to emerging knowledge and techniques by interpreting and implementing national and local drivers.
The post holder will spend a minimum of one day a week in clinical practice and contribute to the first on call rota.
Key Responsibilities
1. Leadership
To develop an overall approach to leadership for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals within the Business Unit that is designed to improve performance and links effectively with other elements of professional and management leadership. Specifically:
- Put in place a clear professional leadership structure covering all specialties and identifying/supporting the Clinical Lead for service planning and design, all aspects of Clinical Governance, teaching and research and develop clinical involvement and influence in these areas.
- Be responsible for the Nursing and Allied Health Professional leadership in the portfolio, taking into account issues impacting internally and externally; proactively seeking creative solutions and sharing learning openly. This includes leading investigations; supporting performance management processes and ensuring complaints have clinical scrutiny that result in organisational learning.
- Actively support matrix professional leadership where required by providing professional leadership to senior staff in other directorates if required to ensure all professions have a clear line of sight from the front line to the board.
- Ensure that a professional service and image is maintained at all time, thereby acting as a role model to all staff
- Provide a leadership style which is underpinned by strongly held values around equality, diversity and openness; effectively builds and maintains relationships with direct reportee(s), colleagues, patients and other key stakeholders
- Lead the quality risk assessment and monitoring of cost improvement programmes at a directorate level
- Demonstrate leadership and innovation in contexts which are unfamiliar, complex, and unpredictable that require solving problems involving many complex interacting factors across the broader health and social care economy.
- Demonstrate clinical leadership, initiative and creativity in developing projects inspiring others to be positive in their contribution to continuous improvement
- Demonstrate a expert knowledge of professional roles and responsibilities in order to explore and develop new and innovative methods of service delivery in order to meet current and new demand
- The post holder will be responsible for the clinical leadership of their portfolio area taking into account issues impacting internally and externally; proactively seeking creative solutions and sharing learning openly. This includes leading investigations; supporting performance management processes and ensuring complaints have clinical scrutiny that result in organisational learning.
- By demonstrating highly developed change management behaviours, the post holder will lead complex projects, which may impact on own or other services, in order to implement key strategies and quality standards
- Demonstrate resilience when responding to challenge, change and complex or difficult situations
- Positively lead clinical pathways to embed the organisational vision and values throughout the service
- Clearly articulate the expected clinical standards of the service, monitors and identifies where standards are not met and takes action to address holding people to account where necessary
- Ability to represent the service at relevant local, regional or national clinical fora
- Lead multi-discipline and multi-agency work streams; the post holder will propose, develop and implement clinical and/or strategic policies and/or service developments; contributing to the planning and management of impacts on other disciplines, services or agencies
- Delegate, organise and prioritise autonomously to ensure the safe delivery of the service and making judgements in complex situations e.g. unexpected service demands
- Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there may be significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Ensure that all objectives, for self and those directly responsible for, are clearly defined within the wider Directorate framework and in line with Trusts objectives, using the appraisal process as a vehicle for this.
- Deliver information to the team and other services, teams or agencies using a variety of means
- Promote and represents portfolio of services at a strategic and clinical level both internal and external to the organisation.
Person Specification
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Advanced assessment, planning, treatment and evaluation skills appropriate to clinical area (if appropriate to job role)
- Performs highly specialised tests / procedures / diagnostics relevant to clinical role to an advanced level
- Highly complex analytical and creative problem solving skills in unpredictable situations
- Advanced workload management including delegation of tasks and the day-to-day leadership across a range of teams/services
- Competent IT skills in order to collect and interpret data, present reports and compile presentations in a range of contexts
- Advanced verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex or potentially distressing information to service users / carers and managing conflict when appropriate
- Advanced risk assessment skills
- Reflective practice skills able to give clear and effective feedback and support others to develop
- Develop and lead complex clinical audit within clinical area
- Able to co-ordinate and implement research and development activities across area of responsibility relevant to clinical area locally and nationally
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate learning to Masters level or equivalent in relevant field
- Registration with the NMC or HCPC.
- Leadership and management qualification
- Appropriate statutory professional body registration
- Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties including extended role activities if relevant
- Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards
- Teaching, training or mentorship qualification
Desirable
- Extended scope professional qualification appropriate to clinical field/job role
- Specific CPD modules relevant to profession
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in the specialist clinical field at a senior level
- Experience of working with, and able to provide credible leadership to, Nurses / Allied Health Professionals
- Experience of managing professional issues with the NMC/HCPC
- Experience of contributing to AHP/Nursing curriculum development and delivery
- Leadership and management experience at a senior level
- Successful project management experience
- Experience of change management
- Experience of practical application of innovation techniques
Desirable
- Leading integration projects using a co-production approach
- Leading research and development activities
- Experience in the teaching and training of others to a specialist in a variety of settings e.g. clinical, academic
Person Specification
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Advanced assessment, planning, treatment and evaluation skills appropriate to clinical area (if appropriate to job role)
- Performs highly specialised tests / procedures / diagnostics relevant to clinical role to an advanced level
- Highly complex analytical and creative problem solving skills in unpredictable situations
- Advanced workload management including delegation of tasks and the day-to-day leadership across a range of teams/services
- Competent IT skills in order to collect and interpret data, present reports and compile presentations in a range of contexts
- Advanced verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex or potentially distressing information to service users / carers and managing conflict when appropriate
- Advanced risk assessment skills
- Reflective practice skills able to give clear and effective feedback and support others to develop
- Develop and lead complex clinical audit within clinical area
- Able to co-ordinate and implement research and development activities across area of responsibility relevant to clinical area locally and nationally
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate learning to Masters level or equivalent in relevant field
- Registration with the NMC or HCPC.
- Leadership and management qualification
- Appropriate statutory professional body registration
- Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties including extended role activities if relevant
- Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards
- Teaching, training or mentorship qualification
Desirable
- Extended scope professional qualification appropriate to clinical field/job role
- Specific CPD modules relevant to profession
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in the specialist clinical field at a senior level
- Experience of working with, and able to provide credible leadership to, Nurses / Allied Health Professionals
- Experience of managing professional issues with the NMC/HCPC
- Experience of contributing to AHP/Nursing curriculum development and delivery
- Leadership and management experience at a senior level
- Successful project management experience
- Experience of change management
- Experience of practical application of innovation techniques
Desirable
- Leading integration projects using a co-production approach
- Leading research and development activities
- Experience in the teaching and training of others to a specialist in a variety of settings e.g. clinical, academic
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
