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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Clinical Lead Practitioner - Henley on Thames/Oxford
Closed for applications on: 30-Apr-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 30-Apr-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- Henley MIU and GP OoH base Oxford,
- Address
- York Road
- Town
- Henley on Thames/Oxford
- Postcode
- RG9 2EB
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible shifts)
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Community Health Services
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Emergency Practitioner looking to progress their leadership knowledge and experience? Do you want to work for as part of a great team.
This could be just the role for you!
We are looking for someone who is a great role model to the team and who is confident of their clinical skills in an urgent care setting, supports best practice, person centred care and able to monitor governance that promotes patient and staff safety.
Based in Townlands Hospital, Henley on Thames the Minor Injury Unit and GP Out of Hours services supports patients patients presenting with acute minor injuries 7 days a week. The based also is responsible for urgent primary care illness presentations referred via 111 to the base for clinical assessment when the GP surgeries are closed.
The Oxford GP Out of Hours service operates from East Oxford Health Centre in Manzil Way, Cowley, Oxford The Out of Hours Service provides urgent primary care outside of the normal GP surgery and pharmacy opening hours.
As a clinically credible and highly visible Emergency Practitioner, you will work closely with the leadership team to drive forward clinical practice across your assigned areas. You will work within the local healthcare system to promote the delivery of the right care, right place, at the right time by the most appropriate clinician.
The role is across two sites and you will be supported in your leadership role with clinical management days to fulfil the leadership role.
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As the Clinical Lead for the Henley team and Oxford Out of Hours base you will provide operational and clinical leadership to both sites to provide the following
- Effective, compassionate, and inclusive leadership and line management of staff
- Clinical audit with a focus upon driving high standards of care
- Support to the infection and prevention and control team to ensure excellent IPC standards are achieved and maintained
- Work closely with the quality and patient safety teams to ensure that safe and effective patient care is delivered, and learning taken forward
- Lead the clinical development of the services in line with national guidelines and developments in the evidence base
- Ensure arrangements are in place for all service members to receive regular supervision, performance development review and training needs identified and where possible, met
- Lead & motivate staff to provide a pro-active and responsive high-quality service, contributing to ongoing audit and evaluation.
- Ensure that the necessary systems & protocols for the delivery of a safe & supportive service are in place, understood & adhered to throughout the Service.
Ensure that effective communications systems are established, maintained and monitored regularly within the Service & between the Teams & other services/agencies/partners.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What we need from you!
- A qualified registered practitioner with passion and drive for developing your clinical skills in a changeable environment
- A keen interest in new and upcoming technologies within Nursing and Healthcare
- Be self-motivated and able to work autonomously as well as showing initiative and promoting new ideas on how to improve the service
- Be compassionate, caring and creative with excellent communication skills
- A flexible and positive attitude with a willingness to accommodate our 24/7 service
- All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse or Registered Paramedic
- Recognised mentor course or qualification
- Minor Injury Management Course at Level 6/7 or equivalent
- ILS
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive patient assessment.
- Competence in Minor Injury and Illness management
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at Band 6 equivalent in Urgent/ Unscheduled Care. Experience with mentoring students
- Competent in using Evidence Based Practice
- Experience in the development of clinical protocols
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in MDT
- Experience working with Nursing assistants
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angie O'Neill
- Job title
- Modern Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721813450
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
No longer accepting applications
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