University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Southern Health FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, Solent NHS Trust, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals FT.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
The Adult Critical Care team are currently seeking an experienced, patient-focused, friendly and enthusiastic individual to join our existing critical care operational team. UHS is a designated major trauma centre and has general and specialist Critical Care areas, including Cardiac ICU, Neuro ICU, General ICU, and Surgical HDU.
You will be responsible on a daily basis for all aspects of the operational patient flow across the adult critical care department, fundamentally playing a pivotal role in the day-to-day patient flow management of the 70-bedded department. You will work closely with our site management team, our care group SPOC operational leads around the hospital, our clinical teams, matrons, care group manager, and consultant teams. You will attend and represent critical care at the staffing and operational flow meetings throughout the day.
About us
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
Specific to this role, we are open to discussing flexibility in the hours that you work. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need, and we will explore what's possible for the role and service. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work, situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Job responsibilities
You will lead the coordination and work collaboratively with all colleagues to ensure throughput of inpatient activity, finding workable solutions, flexing capacity where possible, and escalating as appropriate. You will be visible to our critical care teams, contactable, and able to respond in a timely fashion during duty hours.
You will act as a link with multi-professional teams, creating good collaborative working relationships across the Trust, enabling clear lines of communication in a way that supports the work of the care groups, identifying best practices in performance and quality.
You will take the lead on maintaining that our Business Continuity Plans are continually fit for purpose for the department and undertake a bronze command role in an incident. You will be encouraged to undertake improvement projects, independently and as supported by the senior team.
This role is a Band 7 afc post and the contracted hours are 22.5 hours per week. You will be working across a seven-day week providing professional, credible leadership to the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training Required
* Educated to degree or diploma or equivalent level
* Masters qualification or equivalent level of experience
* Multi-skilled in more than one area of specialty
* Experience at band 6 level
* Appropriate teaching qualification
* Certificate of formal management training
* Aware of current NHS and professional issues
* Ability to network and build relationships within and across professions
Previous or Relevant Experience
* Sound leadership and effective role modelling skills and evidence of transformational skills
* Experience of developing nursing/peri-operative practice/Critical care admission and discharge pathways
* Evidence of change management initiatives
* Evidence of professional development of workforce
* Budget management
Values & Behaviours
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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