Main area: Urgent Community Care
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working across 7 days and extended hours, base will be within Acute settings)
Job ref: 350-CC6670503
Site: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Prescot
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/11/2024 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
A new Opportunity to join our Urgent Care Team, as a Registered Nurse /Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist- Community Discharge Matron to support the Acute Trust’s across Merseyside.
The post holder will work with the multidisciplinary teams in identifying and delivering a wide variety of quality improvements 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, back out into community settings.
The role will work closely with staff in clinical areas using appropriate tools, systems and processes that support the trusts capacity and flow ‘home first’ programme. The role for wards and clinical areas will have an emphasis on quality improvement methodology to assure delivery of excellence in patient and carers care provision which will ensure at the centre of the system is the patient receiving acute care and/or their carers whose roles should be involvement at all stages of the journey and decision making from admission to discharge.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will provide leadership in support creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellence promoting high expectations and ambitions together high achievement by providing advice, guidance and support and coaching to ward staff and their teams on quality and safety.
* To provide effective and visible clinical leadership that will support wards and clinical teams on their quality improvement plans with specific focus on patient flow leading to safe, timely and effective discharges.
* Initiate and develop implementation of data collection and subsequent improvements to measure and enhance quality outcomes related to SAFER care bundles and home first methodology for patients and their carers.
* Work in partnership with the wider system, to develop discharge processes and to escalate any challenges / issues appropriately.
* Identify areas for improvement and make recommendations utilising improvement methodology which will drive service improvement.
* Provide learning opportunities for staff on safe, timely discharge for wards and clinical areas both formally and informally.
* The successful candidate will support the development of pathways out of LUHFT ensuring appropriate use of all community resources including Intermediate Care beds.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will provide leadership in support creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellence promoting high expectations and ambitions together high achievement by providing advice, guidance and support and coaching to ward staff and their teams on quality and safety. Play a key role in planning, priority setting and decision making to ensure that patient flow and SAFER care bundle and the audit programme is implemented across the wards and clinical areas.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
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 / or performance management processes
* Experience of interpreting standards, identifying and gathering evidence and carrying out assessments
* Evidence of motivating staff to take part in successfully changing practice
* Evidence of staff management and leadership
* Competent in the use of Microsoft Office Applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
* Experience of risk management
* Experience of change management and support staff with transformation care initiatives
* Experience of supporting colleagues through cultural change programmes
SKILLS
* Expert knowledge of performance management processes
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills including clear report writing and presentation
* Ability to negotiate, influence and liaise effectively with staff at all levels
* Excellent motivational skills
* Excellent organisational skills, especially in relation to data gathering, and interpretation
* Well-developed interpersonal skills
* Skilled in training / presenting to large groups of staff
* Extensive analytical skills in relation to complex information and data
* Ability to interrogate, manipulate and challenge complex data
* Ability to keep abreast of and interpret national policy development
* Working knowledge of clinical health care combined with an understanding of the associated terminology
* Expert knowledge of healthcare standards and risk management standards applied to the NHS and the means by which they are assessed
* Clear understanding of Risk Management principles
* Maintaining electronic and manual databases
* Training staff or making presentations to all grades of staff
* Skilled in developing and implementing action plans
* Skilled in systems administration
Additional Information
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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 who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Dawn McCormick
Job title: ICRAS Operational Service Manager
Email address: Dawn.McCormick@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07342083072
For any queries, please feel free to email me, hope to hear from you soon.
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