Job summary
- Main area
- Complex Discharge
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-F-247408
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Corporate
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/11/2024
Employer heading
Complex Discharge Team Lead
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking a motivated Band 7 Team Lead to join our Complex Discharge Team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of skilled professionals and make a significant impact on Complex discharges and patient flow. As the Team Lead, you will be responsible for managing the Complex Discharge team, overseeing the assessment and discharge planning of complex patients within the defined clinical area. You will work under the direction of the Complex Discharge Service Lead and act as a senior specialist practitioner, using your clinical knowledge and experience to support the day-to-day operational functions of the team. This includes completing your own assessments and interventions where indicated. Your key responsibilities include Lead and manage the Complex Discharge team, ensuring effective assessment and discharge planning for patients. You will act as a senior specialist practitioner, providing clinical support and completing assessments and interventions as needed. You will facilitate and provide high-quality, patient-focused care by working closely with system partners and undertaking timely escalation to prevent discharge delays. You will undertake research and lead clinical audits in your specialist area to continuously improve patient care and outcomes.
We are looking for a passionate and experienced healthcare professional from a Nursing or Allied Health Professional (AHP) background, such as Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
Main duties of the job
Role Summary
As the Band 7 Team Lead, you will be responsible for managing the Complex Discharge team, overseeing the assessment and discharge planning of complex patients within the defined clinical area. You will work under the direction of the Complex Discharge Service Lead and act as a senior specialist practitioner, using your clinical knowledge and experience to support the day-to-day operational functions of the team. This includes completing your own assessments and interventions where indicated.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Management: Lead and manage the Complex Discharge team, ensuring effective assessment and discharge planning for patients.
- Clinical Expertise: Act as a senior specialist practitioner, providing clinical support and completing assessments and interventions as needed.
- Patient-Focused Care: Facilitate and provide high-quality, patient-focused care by working closely with system partners and undertaking timely escalation to prevent discharge delays.
- Research and Audits: Undertake research and lead clinical audits in your specialist area to continuously improve patient care and outcomes.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
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This vacancy will close at midnight on 11 November 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 20 November 2024
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse / Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist educated to Degree level.
- Post registration qualification in relevant speciality.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Research Module.
- Master’s degree
- Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing / therapy skills.
- Broad range of post registration experience within an acute hospital setting.
- Experience in involvement with Complex Discharge Planning
- Experience of formal/informal teaching.
- Experience of initiating change
- Experience of leading teams and supervising junior staff members
Desirable criteria
- Experience in using EPIC/ electronic patient records.
- Experience of contributing to the investigation of complaints
- Experience of leading Complex Discharge planning meetings
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional and clinical knowledge around complex discharge issues, or a willingness to develop such knowledge.
- Basic knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of System partners
- Working knowledge of the legislation concerning complex discharge
- Understanding of evidence-based practice.
- Understanding of personal accountability
- Understanding of Clinical Governance.
- Understanding of patient discharge pathways its complexities and how to support the patient through this
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of current issues within system
- Knowledge of how health care, social care, voluntary sector and ICBs work together
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates clarity and breadth in use of verbal and written communications in relation to our patient group.
- Adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleagues’ needs.
- Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients.
- Strong Leadership Skills.
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time-management.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to lead developments in practice.
- Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
- Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills.
- Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly.
- Ability to receive and communicate highly complex and sensitive information concerning patients’ medical condition and care planning.
- Ability to deal with situations requiring analysis and assessment around suitability for discharge, which may not always be straightforward.
- Ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders to co-ordinate complex discharge plans.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Communication Skills.
- IT skills – particularly MS office – MS Excel, Word PowerPoint etc
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC/HCPC Code of Conduct.
- Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic institutions.
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty – political and Trust.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Premchand Sarikonda
- Job title
- Lead Specialist Practitioner for Integrated Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
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