Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare Leadership
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-SCO-NM388-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St James House
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Home First Lead
Band 8a
Job overview
To provide clinical leadership for the Home First Hub and support the wider community health and social care teams ensuring that safe and effective quality care is delivered. Secure and assure the highest standards of clinical care by the provision of clinical leadership and support for staff delivering clinical services, service users and their relatives.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide effective leadership and be responsible and accountable for the operational management, co-ordination and delivery of Home First services Home First Acute flow, Home First Hub and Home first Rehab & Reablement.
2. You will lead a multi-professional within SCO in accordance with set objectives, local and national targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints that ensure the delivery of high-quality patient centered services that meet patient needs.
3. To be a budget holder and be responsible and accountable for managing the budget within given resources.
4. To ensure all care is delivered according to Trust policies and procedures ensuring appropriate governance arrangements.
5. To utilise clinical audit, research, supervision and teaching to monitor and improve standards of care by efficient and effective use of resources.
6. Your multi-disciplinary team made up of AHPs,RNs, Soical Work, Administration Staff, Voluntary Sector colleagues and Housing all involved in supporting people to return home after their discharge. The Home First Hub is centered around why not home, why not today. We want to reduce the risk of harm to the person by delays in their transfer of care and we want to improve people's outcomes, home is best.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ people representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to Academic Level 6 or equivalent
- • Leadership Programme/Course
Desirable criteria
- • Working towards an MSc or equivalent experience in the area
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- • Professional registration ( HCPC,NMC )
Desirable criteria
- N/A
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working at a senior level in MDT team (Nursing, Social Work, AHP’s)
- • Previous experience of implementing a Discharge to Assess or Home First services
- • Managing a team to deliver service objectives & performance
- • Risk management and clinical governance
- • Experience in service transformation, process redesign and system improvement
- • Evidence of excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- • Evidence of Leadership Skills
- • Good understanding of the drivers around hospital discharge and the associated legislative frameworks that support this
- • Knowledge of SCO Priorities and objectives
- • Knowledge of standards for better health/clinical governance and their professional implications
- • Managing a team to deliver service objectives & performance
- • Experience in service transformation, process redesign and system improvement
- • Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- • Ability to affect and manage change
- • Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
Desirable criteria
- N/A
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- N/A
Desirable criteria
- • Previous experience of implementing a Discharge to Assess or Home First service
- • Evidence of Managing a budget
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
- Joanne Veichmanis
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 206 4545
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