Main area: AHP Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapist
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent: 7 day service
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 days service therefore will be element of shift and weekend working)
Job ref: 350-CC6772776
Site: GP Out Of Hours Office, Southport Hospital
Town: Southport
Salary: £53,775 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/11/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
This role is an integrated position working between Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Mersey and West Lancs NHS Trust to support early discharge within the Care Transfer Hub, emphasizing valuing patient time. The post holder will work with multidisciplinary teams in identifying and delivering a variety of quality improvement methods that will support identification and interventions required to reduce wasted time for patients in their journey of care and treatments through the hospital system and back into community settings.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide leadership in support of creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellence, promoting high expectations and ambitions. Responsibilities include:
1. Providing advice, guidance, and support to ward staff on quality and safety.
2. Supporting wards and clinical teams on their quality improvement plans with a focus on patient flow leading to safe, timely, and effective discharges.
3. Initiating and developing data collection and improvements to measure and enhance quality outcomes related to SAFER care bundles.
4. Working in partnership with the wider system to develop discharge processes and escalate challenges appropriately.
5. Identifying areas for improvement and making recommendations using improvement methodology.
6. Providing learning opportunities for staff on safe, timely discharge.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description for Main responsibilities. The successful applicant will be expected to be based within the Acute Hospitals.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse/Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist
* Masters level or Professional qualification or equivalent experience
* Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
* Evidence of change management qualification or equivalent experience
* Experience of patient flow schemes
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of developing and maintaining compliance and performance management processes
* Experience of interpreting standards and carrying out assessments
* Evidence of motivating staff to change practice
* Evidence of staff management and leadership
* Competent in Microsoft Office Applications
* Experience of risk management
* Experience of change management and supporting staff with transformation care initiatives
* Experience of supporting colleagues through cultural change programmes
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
Skills
* Expert knowledge of performance management processes
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to negotiate, influence and liaise effectively with staff at all levels
* Excellent motivational skills
* Excellent organisational skills
* Well-developed interpersonal skills
* Skilled in training/presenting to large groups
* Extensive analytical skills in relation to complex information
* Ability to interpret national policy development
* Working knowledge of clinical health care
* Expert knowledge of healthcare standards and risk management standards
* Clear understanding of Risk Management principles
* Maintaining electronic and manual databases
* Skilled in developing and implementing action plans
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum criteria for the role in the person specification.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Name: Karen Ryder
Job title: ICRAS Operational Manager
Email address: karen.ryder@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07425 703693
For an informal chat, please email for a mutually convenient time.
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