Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
Working for Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based healthcare services throughout Cheshire and Merseyside.
Our services support people of all ages, from birth through to end of life – providing care in the community to help prevent ill health and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions.
We have a wide range of roles in our organisation including Nurses, GPs, Allied Health Professionals, Dental, Management, Health Informatics as well as the wider healthcare team supporting effective delivery of patient facing services.
Whatever your role, you will play a valuable part in our services.
In addition to being an exceptionally rewarding environment to work in, there are a number of other benefits, including:
1. Flexible working options
2. At least 27 days holiday per year plus bank holidays (based on the standard working week 37.5 hours)
3. Staff benefits including NHS Pension, childcare vouchers, a salary sacrifice car scheme, additional annual leave purchase scheme, trade union membership and a range of ambassadorial engagement roles
4. Annual appraisals, personal development plans and a wide range of supported apprenticeships to support career aspirations
5. Strongly developed Wellbeing support, including access to a confidential support service 24/7 for personal advice
Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic and highly experienced Nurse Team Lead with a track record of leading and managing a team in a community setting within the Community Integrated Response Team (Home First, UCR 2hr Response and Virtual frailty Ward).
You will be providing line management and clinical/ professional supervision to a defined group of staff, including appraisal and monitoring of clinical practice standards and be responsible for the allocation of work to clinicians and working collaboratively with the other team leaders to ensure equity of workload across teams.
You will act as positive role model in coaching staff members and providing clear direction and support, as well as supporting the service manager with service re-design and take the lead on identified projects.
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our Community Integrated Response Team, working across urgent community response and frailty virtual ward.
Do you want to be part of a dynamic NHS team where no two days are the same, but every day brings rewards in terms of job satisfaction and team working?
Do you want flexibility with the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge with opportunities for career development?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To develop and deliver health care, training and health promotion as a member of the Community Response Directorate, using evidence-based practice and professional leadership and management.
To promote positive health to staff, individuals, families, groups, communities and relevant agencies.
To evaluate service delivery, identify areas for improvement and initiate change.
To contribute to the development of best practice and facilitate shared learning to develop services and initiatives that meet local needs, in relation to aims and objectives of Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
To develop effective links with key people in delivering services to support staff in improving the care given to our patients.
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Standards
Essential criteria
* Registered with the NMC
* Degree/ Diploma in relevant clinical area
* Evidence of clinical leadership/ clinical management training
* V300 independent nurse prescriber qualification
* Evidence of portfolio of knowledge, skills and professional development
Desirable criteria
* MSC in Advanced Practice
Evidence and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Recent relevant post registration experience in a role undertaking assessments of complex needs in the community
* Experience of leading a clinical team
* Experience of operational and strategic planning
* Evidence of effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work
* Ability to manage staff effectively and get results through teamwork
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
* Effective interpersonal and communication skills at multi disciplinary level
* Ability to work autonomously and prioritise own workload
* Excellent IT skills including Microsoft packages
* Ability to work with minimal supervision
* Evidence of self-management, organisation and time management skills
* Demonstrates negotiation skills through working in partnership with others
* Problem recognition and problem solving skills, including conflict resolution
* Ability to work to regular, tight deadlines
* Ability to produce high quality reports
* Facilitation skills
* Networking Skills
* Able to adopt a whole systems approach to strategic thinking
* Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds
* Ability to hold others to account for delivery of clinical care and outcomes
* Ability to assess impact of service changes on wider organisational policy / practice
* Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* Ability to work flexibly as part of an out of hours rota
* Able to build effective relationships that engage and support individuals and teams in change
* Ability to influence and negotiate
* Leadership qualities
* Access to a car for work purposes
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