Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical Team Leader
Band 7
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
Community Nursing Team Leader- Band 7 for Claughton Community Nursing Team
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to work within the Community & Specialist Nursing Division in the Birkenhead Locality as a Community Nursing Team Leader, within our team at Claughton Community Nursing Team.
This is a permanent post.
Working over 7 days , must be flexible .
Hours to be discussed at interview in more detail .
Main duties of the job
A main part of the role is to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care to patients across the community/primary care interface in the most efficient and clinically effective way, in co-operation with other members of the health and social care teams, and voluntary and statutory agencies.
Working for our organisation
Working for your organisation
At Wirral Community Health and Care Trust we take pride in our Trust Values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
This post will be responsible for managing planned programmes of care for patients in domiciliary and clinic settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to be able to work autonomously and as part of a team and possess excellent time management, organisational and communication skills. You will be innovative, flexible and prepared to adapt to the changing needs of the Trust as they arise.
For more please see attached Job description.
Person specification
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Able to travel independently throughout the locality
- Dexterity for undertaking clinical skills and people moving
- Passion and drive to deliver person centred care
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- All core community nursing competencies
- Coaching competencies
- Ability to develop staff and collaborate to deliver high quality care
- Evidence of self-management, organisation and time management skills
- Leadership Skills
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Effective communication skills, written and oral
- Effective change management skills
- Demonstrates negotiation skills through working in partnership with others
- Ability to manage staff effectively and get results through teamwork
- Ability to motivate staff
- Flexibility and adaptability with the capacity to respond positively to changing situations
- Ability to exercise initiative
- Ability to innovate
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service users and the service
- Ability to form positive working relationships with other services, agencies, and providers
- Demonstrable problem solving skills
- Computer literate
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of managing a caseload/leadership within the community
- Experienced in undertaking complex community nursing interventions
- Awareness of Workforce Policies and Procedures and experience of implementing these
- Experience of clinical audit
- Financial awareness
- Evidence of leading in a Multi-disciplinary environment
- Experience of staff management
- Experience of delivering clinical and management supervision
- Demonstrate an awareness and application of clinical governance principles
- Awareness of professional nursing issues and developments.
- Understanding of national government initiatives in health and social care and how they impact on team
- Demonstrable competencies at a senior nursing level of clinical assessment, analysis, planning, delivery and evaluation skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of local services
Qualification and Professional
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Current NMC registration
- Independent non-medical prescriber or willing to undertake
- Teaching/Mentorship Qualification
- Evidence of further recent study/continuous professional development
- Improvement practitioner qualification or willing to work towards
- Post Graduate Leadership Qualification or willing to work towards or relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- Educated to masters level or working towards/equivalent experience
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification – District Nursing
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
- Caroline Loveridge
- Job title
- Community and Specialist Nursing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 514 2888
- Additional information
Caroline Loveridge
Community and Specialist Nursing Manager
0151 514 2888
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