Clinical Team Leader | NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 + Outer HCA of 15% subject to a min £4,313 & a max £5,436 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bromley, BR2 7EH |
| Company: | Midlands and Lancashire CSU |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6273233/877-CSU-6273233 |
Summary
NHS South-East London (SEL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) - Bromley has established an in-house All Age Continuing Care (AACC) service comprising of managers, clinical leads, nurses and support officers. The service has a duty to deliver the ICB’s statutory requirements and to manage the AACC budget.
SEL ICB has commissioned Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) to provide an AACC Partnership Delivery Service (PDS) which will work alongside the ICB in-house AACC team based in Bromley to deliver the totality of requirements for the service. The PDS will be a clinical-led service that will deliver CHC nurse-led assessments and reviews, in support of the completion of Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Decision Support Tools (DSTs). The service will also provide additional AACC administrative support services.
The MLCSU PDS will be delivered in line with the agile working policy to enable a ‘hybrid’ model of working, with a mix of office based working from the Bromley ICB office and remote working.
The post holder will play a key role in supporting the Clinical & Operational Manager and the All Age Continuing Care (AACC) team in managing and developing the Continuing Healthcare team and Personal Health Budgets (PHBs).
Working in conjunction with external stakeholders, to implement a local vision of Continuing Healthcare services, including supporting with the promotion and use of Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) and ensuring the delivery of key quality outcomes for patients.
As part of the clinical role, you will support patients and their families through the CHC process. There is a commitment to supporting and developing all team members. You will be committed to delivering an excellent service where the people are passionate about doing things differently and working together to grow a high performing, flexible organisation that has the patient and the customer at the heart of it.
A key aspect of this post will be to provide professional leadership and management to a team. You will also work closely with and support other members of the Continuing Healthcare Team providing skilled and experienced support to the Team, key ICB leads and other stakeholders, reporting back to the Clinical Manager.
The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It’s a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction. We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based across the Midlands and North West to make a difference – for our customers, patients and communities.
Offering a full range of professional services to hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies\ across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.
In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment.
Job responsibilities
You will:
• Ensure that the client, their family and carers are at the heart of decision-making.
• Ensure best practice guidance is followed at all times, with clear clinical evidence to support all decision-making.
• Provide clinical knowledge and expertise to support decision making on appeals, complaints, disputes and retrospective cases in-line with local policies and procedures.
• Be confident in providing clinical oversight and management as a professional registered on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register.
• Have extensive knowledge and experience of NHS Continuing Healthcare.
• Be comfortable with complex and demanding workloads and many competing priorities.
• Contribute to performance improvement, supporting the Clinical Manager in identifying areas for improvement and taking a lead in identified areas, where agreed.
• Line management experience and/or a relevant qualification.
• Experience of cross-sector partnership working.
The following five criteria are the essential criteria for the role. These will be used for shortlisting, so it is important that you answer these questions fully in your application form to give yourself the best chance of being selected for interview.
• Degree or equivalent and relevant level of experience as either Registered Nurse (RGN, RMN or RNLD) or Healthcare Professional to demonstate highly specialist post specific knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge.
• Minimum of 3 years management/leadership experience gained in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through experience and training plus further specialist knowledge of the Continuing Healthcare process and personalisation agenda.
• Ability to meet deadlines – comfortable with complex and demanding workloads and competing priorities.
• Negotiation and conflict management skills and the ability to influence.
For the full job description and person specification please see the supporting document. This document has a number of criteria that we would ideally want in a candidate. We know that you might not meet all the criteria for the role but please don’t let that stop you from applying. We understand that you may bring other skills and experience to this role that we might not have thought of.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024