Main area: Lymphoedema Service
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 08:30 - 17:00)
Job ref: 350-CC6685534
Site: Dovecot Health Centre
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic nurse with Lymphoedema experience to clinically lead a small and friendly team in Liverpool. The service offers expert advice, support and education across a range of community domiciliary and clinic based visits.
Main duties of the job
1. To clinically lead a team to provide highly specialised clinical care and advice and support to service users and the wider healthcare team – this will include clinical assessment, diagnostic skills, non-medical prescribing and implementation of management and treatment plans.
2. Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the different care delivery settings.
3. Work cooperatively and collaboratively with other services/stakeholders to enable service users to be treated in the most appropriate setting and at the centre of the care delivery process.
4. Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload management support and clinical supervision.
5. Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to service users with both planned and unplanned care needs.
6. Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
7. Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
8. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
9. Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
10. Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
11. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence-based clinical decision making.
12. Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the wider healthcare when managing complex and highly complex situations.
13. Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
14. Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop specialist individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
15. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
16. Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease-specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
17. Set objectives by which performance will be monitored alongside team leader.
18. Work with operational service manager and service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.
19. Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.
20. Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.
21. Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
22. Support Team Leader to provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.
23. Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
24. Complete PACE reviews of team members as per trust expectation.
25. Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs.
26. Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers.
27. Support Team Leader to provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.
28. Participate in audits and research, as required.
29. Participate in individual and group supervision.
30. Support with the implementation of mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
31. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
32. Initiate training and development of team members. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping.
33. In conjunction with the Operational Manager and service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
34. Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting and escalating as appropriate.
35. Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the operational Service manager and service lead.
36. Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidence-based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.
37. Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
38. Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
39. Support with the identification of skills deficits within the team and identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
40. Monitor and ensure the team/service meet requirements as expected with regards to team performance as per trust expectation.
41. Ensure the team is compliant in meeting and participating in the quality and governance framework within the division.
42. Support students and other learners to achieve competency and mentor student and preceptors to achieve their learning outcomes through the development of a supportive learning environment.
43. Support the Team Leader to lead the team to develop, implement and delivery local development plans and projects related to the delivery of education and training across the service line and wider organisation with integration at the centre of delivery. Provide training sessions to Mersey Care Staff as part of the competency framework/specific sessions relating to patient’s needs. Sessions as deemed appropriate to external partners to support patient care delivery.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent qualification
* Appropriate prescriber – if required within the role
* Registration with relevant professional body
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses relevant to the role
* Clinical Examination Qualification
* Teaching qualification
* Non-medical prescriber
Knowledge and experience
* Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in relevant clinical field of skin/TVN
* Experience of successful multiagency working
* Experience of management and clinical leadership
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
* Understanding how other agencies work
* IT literate
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health
* Research Skills
* Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
* Ability to understand and analyse complex data
* Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
* Self-management and motivation skills
* Report writing skills
* Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries
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