Job overview

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical Team Lead to join our Early Intervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country.

Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has so far delivered: 77000 fewer acute bed days used, 19000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system. Overall having an impact of £25.8million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.

You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, and facilitating early hospital discharge.

Main duties of the job

Create an environment where clients are able to be at the centre of their own care and decision making processes sensitive to the needs of the older person. Respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of the service users, involving them in shared decision making and obtaining their consent to treatment/referrals.

Act to safeguard the patient taking emergency action where necessary, reporting any potential or actual risks to the patient immediately and following the safeguarding policy. Take responsibility for ensuring risks to safeguarding are reported in a timely manner within the team.

Provide leadership, mentoring and support for junior health and social care employee and to implement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing competency framework.

Working for our organisation

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.