Job Introduction
As a team leader you will provide effective management and clinical leadership to the Community IV team to ensure the safe delivery of care to patients requiring IV treatment either in the clinic or home environment.
For any enquiries about the role please contact: rebecca.wardle@nhs.net
Main Responsibility
Main duties of the job
- 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. - To ensure the safe delivery and administration of intravenous therapy treatments in the clinic or home environment as per policy and protocol.
- To work with the Community Pharmacy Lead and medical teams on future clinical pathways that may develop to support people to remain in the community setting for delivery of their care.
- To ensure that clinics operate within the scope of the service specification to ensure clinics are used effectively to maximise the potential of patients that can be cared for in the clinic throughout the day.
To work closely with acute services such as SDEC to support and facilitate patients to undergo their treatment in a clinic setting or at home
- To effectively operate and manage a community team.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders, including patients and the public all members of staff, local GPs and practice staff, colleagues from across the 3rd sector, commissioners and social care staff. - To provide excellent leadership for a community team, including all staff within the team.
- To provide effective operational management of the team ensuring that resources available are utilized effectively and meet patient needs.
- Are you an experienced nurse? Are you motivated, adaptable and keen to embrace a new challenge? If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you today!
- An exciting opportunity has arisen within our community IV nursing team for experienced nurses to join the team and work across our unique Integrated Acute, and Community Care service to help us make a difference to our patients. We have a flexible approach to working and offer a variety of flexible working opportunities that can be considered to fit around your family and lifestyle.
The Ideal Candidate
- Registered Nurse
- Educated to post graduate level or to have equivalent knowledge and experience
- Management Qualification or working towards one
- Leadership programme
- V300 independent and supplementary Prescriber.
- Evidence of successfully leading a team
- Experience of resource management
- Experience of managing HR issues
- Experience in delivering agreed change agendas
- Experience in delivering clinical governance, risk and safety management
- Experience in undertaking investigations into complaints and clinical incidents
- Proven ability to work with colleagues from across the multidisciplinary and multi-agency team
- Good understanding of finances and budgetary management
- 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 GWH Trust 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
Package Description
As a Band 7 Matron, you’ll be part of our valued team
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
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.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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