Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: 37.5
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Office hours)
- Job ref
- 350-CC6202812
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whiston PCRC
- Town
- Whiston
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/05/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Team Leader - Long Covid Services
Band 7
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered clinician to undertake a band 7 Clinical Team Leader role in the St Helens & Knowsley Long COVID Service, however some flexibility may be required to working across the Merseycare footprint. A multi-disciplinary team that provides input to residents across the St Helens & Knowsley borough who are suffering the effects of long COVID.
The postholder would be required to provide leadership and management across the two teams and provide support to both the teams and the senior leadership team.
The post holder would have demonstrable post registration/qualification
experience, experience of management and clinical leadership, experience of successful multiagency work.
Shortlisting is planned for: 10th May 2024
Interviews are planned for: 17th May 2024
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide clinical leadership, professional role modelling, mentorship, supervision, education and clinical expertise as an independent and interdependent practitioner, developing and leading relationships within the service.
Duties of the role will include providing clinical support and supervision to the team, in addition to gathering information on the service to report up to the Senior Leadership Team.
If you are highly motivated, have a passion for making a real difference and can rise to the challenge of becoming an effective member of an established team, then we would like to hear from you.
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
Role will include:
- Following of H.R / finance procedures/policy
- Returning audits.
working closely with Governance
- Engaging in SLT meetings across the service line as appropriate
- Leadership and management of a team
Please refer to full job description
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Practitioner with current NMC/AHP registration.
- Masters level qualification or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
- Degree or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
- • First line management qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
- Experience of management and clinical leadership
- Experience of successful multiagency work
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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 policy.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data
- Risk assessment skills
- 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.
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jacki Langley
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager - Long COVID Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07435629956
- Additional information
If any further information is required please contact Jacki Langley, Jacqueline.langley@merseycare,nhs.uk
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