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Job summary

Main area
Growing the Friarage & Community Services L3
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
328-FCS-6399720
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Friarage Hospital
Town
Northallerton
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

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Clinical Lead

Band 7

Job overview

B7 Clinical Lead for Hambleton & Richmondshire

Are you interested in leadership and are you a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme?

If you are Hambleton & Richmondshire has an opportunity of a clinical lead post and this could be the career changing opportunity for you at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are undergoing a significant programme of radical transformation within community services, and we have a great opportunity for a clinical lead to provide leadership to the teams within your area of responsibility, working collaboratively with the Clinical Matron and General Manager in Friarage and Hambleton & Richmondshire Community Services Directorate.

You will provide assurance of safety, quality and the overall patient experience as well as ensuring the effective day to day management of nursing in your area to deliver key quality, performance, and financial plans, to achieve service and standards improvements.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training; programmes have been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will hold 24 hour responsibility for the clinical area with support from the Clinical Matron and General Manager. They will ensure that they lead and clinically manage the area so that safe, high quality, evidence based nursing care is delivered to patients whilst respecting and involving families and carers as partners in care.

This post includes both operational and clinical responsibilities with the post holder spending a percentage of their working week (10% - 50%) providing visible and hands on clinical care to patients whilst working closely within the attached primary care network (PCN) to lead and provide coordinated care through integrated teams.

The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the community nursing workforce and will work in conjunction with the senior management team and the PCN to manage the budget for the area to ensure the best use of resources.

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

  • Explore leadership within the NHS
  • Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
  • Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
  • Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment.

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria
  • Registered as fit to practice by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
  • To hold a Degree/diploma in relevant field awarded by professional body along with specialist training to masters level
  • Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development
Desirable criteria
  • To have completed the specialist practitioner qualification in District Nursing (BSc or PGDip)
  • To hold Leadership and management qualification
  • To hold or be working towards MSc or relevant post-graduation qualification

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Penny Hutchinson
Job title
Clinical Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07467 439444
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