Job Introduction
Bladder and Bowel | Clinical Lead Nurse (Band 7)
Lead, inspire and transform care for patients with bladder and bowel health needs.
Are you an experienced nurse with a passion for bladder and bowel care and a desire to lead service excellence? We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Clinical Lead Nurse to join our specialist Bladder and Bowel Service and play a pivotal role in improving outcomes for people across our communities.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to combine expert patient care with leadership, innovation and service development. As the Clinical Lead Nurse, you will work alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team, providing clinical expertise, professional leadership and strategic direction to ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care.
Base: Amesbury Health Centre
Hours: 37.5 per week
Main Responsibilities:
- To work in partnership with the local Commissioners, GPs and Social Care colleagues to ensure the teams deliver and support the effective flow of patients between primary community intermediate and secondary care.
- Work closely with colleagues and lead transformational change whilst at the same time maintaining services and meeting all key deliveries.
- To clinically lead a Continence Service team.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders, including patients and the public all members of staff, local GPs and practice staff, Heads of Operations, colleagues from across the 3rd sector, commissioners, Continence Product Representatives, local hospital sites and social care staff.
- To provide excellent leadership for the Continence Service, including all staff within the team.
- To provide effective operational management of the team ensuring that resources available are utilised effectively and meet patient needs.
- Ensure the flow of patients is timely and delays are minimal. Maintain high targets for achieving standards set to manage waiting lists.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification -
Essential:
- Relevant professional registration.
- Educated to post graduate level or to have equivalent knowledge and experience within the specialism of bladder and bowel continence.
- Management Qualification or working towards one.
- Highly motivated and committed individual, with a solution focused approach.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and supporting others through this.
- Experience of using strong leadership skills to support service development and transformation.
- Able to evidence ability to plan and complete workplan in challenging situations.
- Proven ability to work with colleagues from across the multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.
- Aware of recent national and professional guidance and evidence related to multi professional field of practice.
- Able to confidently assess and prioritise using guidelines and protocols, and support colleagues in this Confident in professionally challenging colleagues.
- Able to evidence recent CPD to validate professional practice.
- Able to demonstrate a wide range of adaptable communication skills.
- Ability to develop sustainable professional relationships both internally and externally.
- Experience of resource management.
- Experience in HR management.
- Experience in delivering agreed change agendas.
- Experience in delivering clinical governance, risk and safety management.
- Experience in undertaking investigations into complaints and clinical incidence.
- Good understanding of workforce and performance management.
- Understanding of national agenda and opportunity for community services.
- Excellent understanding of community services.
- Good working knowledge of BSWTrust business practices.
- Good communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Ability to motivate and lead a team.
- Ability to work in a pressurised environment, balancing competing agendas.
- Always puts patients first and is committed to improving patient care.
- A confident, credible and resilient leader.
- A highly motivated individual who is good at motivating others.
- Car driver and able to access a vehicle for work purposes.
Desirable:
- Experience of leading a project.
- Leadership qualification.
- High level of emotional intelligence.
- Confident and effective networking skills.
- Ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a group of people.
- Good undertanding of finance and budgetary mangement.
- Non Medical Prescriber (V300).
Package Description
As a Bladder and Bowel Clinical Lead Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our Amesbury Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
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