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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 (Community)
Accepting applications until: 12-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 12-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Abingdon Community Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Marcham Road
- Tref
- Abingdon
- Cod post
- OX14 1AG
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Clinical
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.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you passionate about helping avoid unnecessary hospital admissions by caring for and treating our patients in their own homes or local community settings?
Above all, are you someone who will provide strong clinical leadership and future direction for our Community Urgent Care services, working together to deliver excellent patient care and good team dynamics.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (OHFT) Community Health Services, Dentistry & Primary Care Directorate comprises several services which provide same day, acute and urgent care to patients, close to, or where possible, in their own home as a safe alternative to secondary care.
Our services operate 7 days a week, 8am till 8pm and include Same Day Emergency Care Units, Urgent Community Response (UCR), Hospital at Home visiting teams (in conjunction with secondary care), and Specialist Falls Services -all supported through a clinical co-ordination centre -Single Point of Access (SPA)
This position will require you to adopt a lead clinical role in the provision of Community Urgent Care Services within Oxfordshire, ensuring appropriate clinical governance . arrangements.
We provide clinical and professional leadership and direction, education learning and development for clinical staff in maintaining clinical and non-clinical standards of care and in implementing service improvements. This includes ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded.
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This role will:
Provide clinical leadership for clinicians delivering services across the Community Directorate
Respond to clinical staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences and concerns about clinical standards.
Provide clinical leadership and direction for clinical staff in maintaining clinical and non-clinical standards of care and in implementing service improvements. This includes ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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”
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
The post-holder will:
Act as a role model for clinical staff demonstrating and promoting the organisation’s core values, beliefs and professional behaviours including respect, non-discrimination, empowerment, and inclusion.
Provide clinical leadership and direction.
Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with other senior colleagues to ensure the achievement of Pathway objectives.
Develop and promote innovation and service improvement through local and national initiatives.
Support influence the planning and development of Community Services strategies.
Establish effective relationships with other service providers in the public, voluntary and private sectors to enable effective joint working with the Trust.
Promote awareness of clinical and non-clinical risk amongst all staff.
Take responsibility for a level of involvement in clinical activity as appropriate to the post involving critical analysis and advice concerning highly complex situations
This role will be part of the relevant service management team on call rota and may involve working unsocial hours during evenings and at weekends as well as working in hours as service need dictates to attend Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust meetings as required.
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- 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
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Professional nursing or allied health profession qualification.
- • Educated to degree level.
- • Post graduate management qualification or equivalent management experience.
- • Mentor qualification
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Formal Leadership Qualification.
- • Master’s degree
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Extensive knowledge of clinical governance and Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards of care.
- • Experience of leading the planning, delivering and evaluation of care to address changing needs.
- • Detailed understanding of the key policy issues affecting the delivery of health and social care across local health economy and at national level.
- • Experience of undertaking clinical audit and implementing the audit cycle.
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Research implementation skills.
- • Specialist knowledge of contemporary health and social care agendas
Personal Qualities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Excellent interpersonal skills
- • Flexible and adaptable
- • Assertive and confident
- • Able to work independently
- • Effective role model
- • Active team member
- • Committed to growth and development of colleagues and environment
- • Able to motivate colleagues
- • Approachable
- • Diplomatic
- • Committed to personal growth
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Counselling skills
- • Coaching skills
- • Able to facilitate professional growth in colleagues
- • Committed to constant review and change
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Ability to demonstrate personal and professional leadership skills
- • Well-developed communication skills both verbal and written
- • Evidence of continual professional development
- • Ability to negotiate and persuade in complex and difficult situations
- • Successful budget and resource management
- • Managing poor performance and dealing with misconduct issues
- • Undertaking interviews and investigations
- • Teaching staff in formal and informal methods
- • Mentoring, coaching and supervision in the clinical setting and able to use a facilitative approach
- • IT skills, in word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use.
- • Ability to think logically, use initiative and problem solve
- • Assessment of training and development needs and training of staff
- • Ability to manage competing priorities and to work under pressure
- • Good understanding of equity and diversity and have non-judgemental approach to patients, staff, and partners
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Demonstrable ability and experience of managing clinical and non-clinical staff
- • Demonstrate an ability to organise self and others
- • Demonstrate an ability to motivate self and others.
- • Demonstrate an ability to communicate at different levels and relay information to people with different levels of ability to understand
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Experience of implementation of clinical governance frameworks
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Antoinette Broad
- Teitl y swydd
- Senior Clinical Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07990 513738
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Please do get in touch if you have any questions prior to making an application.
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