Acute Care At Home Team Lead
Saltash
New Jobs
Permanent
£49,387 - £56,515 a year
- Lead the Acute Care At Home team, ensuring high-quality nursing care is delivered in patients' homes.
- Ideal candidates will possess strong nursing experience, leadership qualities, and excellent communication skills.
- This part-time position is based in Saltash, offering a salary of £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata with a focus on work-life balance.
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The opportunity has arisen to lead the community based Acute care at home team for the North and East locality of Cornwall. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a team of senior nurses providing support and treatment to people in their own homes. The Acute care at home team deliver treatments which include the administration of IV medications and the monitoring of people during an acute episode of illness to enable patients to recover at home safely. The team will support early discharge from the acute settings, whilst also providing care to prevent a hospital admission where possible. The team work closely with the Virtual wards and Hospital at Home teams to identify people requiring this care. The team leader will be responsible for the professional and operational leadership, for quality and governance within the team ensuring the service is cost effective and efficient whilst also seeking opportunities for team and service development.
Main duties of the job
Key elements of the role are: day to day coordination and supervision of the team, providing complex case management and support for the team. To be an autonomous practitioner responsible for the assessment and provision of treatments for patients on the caseload. To manage the performance, and clinical effectiveness of the team ensuring the delivery of evidence based care. To be able to provide assurance that performance standards are being met whilst meeting service targets. To identify new opportunities for service development.
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level registration adult nursing and registered with NMC
- Experience of implementing change
- Extensive experience of practicing within the community, as an Acute care at Home Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Post registered qualification in Nursing the Acutely Ill patient
- A teaching qualification eg City & gilds, HEA Mentorship Module 369
- Experience leading an Acute Care at Home Team
- Specialist or Leadership qualification within a community team
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Liaison and negotiation skills, as well as highly developed communication skills
- Highly developed organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Budget Management skills
Knowledge and ablilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead, manage and co-ordinate teams in an autonomous manner
- Highly developed specialist assessment and evaluation skills
- Awareness of national and local political health development and influence
At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:
- Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
- Leadership and Management development programmes
- Coaching and mentoring opportunities
- A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
- Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
- A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
- Individual professional development programmes
Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:
- Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
- Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
- Free DBS checks where required
- Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.
The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.
If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.
Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644
Saltash
New Jobs
Permanent
£49,387 - £56,515 a year