Clinical Service Lead Anticoagulant Services

at  Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Would you like to join an established and high performing service, which delivers Anticoagulation treatment to patients in their own homes, community based settings and the acute hospital. This is an exciting new role within the service as Clinical lead you will work within the Community Medicine Directorate of the Primary Care Communities and Therapies group which is a dynamic, forward thinking, and supportive team.
This opportunity is ideal for an individual, who aspires to broaden their knowledge and skills as they will be given the opportunity to support in re-designing the Anticoagulation service, as Clinical Lead you will work alongside the Haematology consultant and wider team to implement, and imbed new service developments and service promotion, development of new pathways and policies to improve quality and safety by streamlining the inpatient and community outpatient care by collaboratively working with the wider teams to improve patient’s clinical outcomes and length of stay in an acute hospital bed.

Main duties

• Participate, drive, and contribute to continuous service improvement and development.
• Lead quality improvement projects to ensure the agendas for the service are achieved and maintained.
• Demonstrate leadership, flexibility, the ability to support junior member of the team, with the ability to build strong working relationships.
• Actively promotes excellent and collaborative team work across the multidisciplinary team with outcomes aimed at the best interests of the patients.
• Maintain a high level of clinical practice within the service.
• Ensure there is an imbedded clinical governance framework across the service and compliance with reports and audits.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

WE HAVE THREE NEWLY EMERGING STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:

Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
This is an exciting time to join our team and be part of the improvement journey. We as a team, are continually striving to improve all services across the group. Through innovation and providing our patients with safe, effective care through our Fundamentals of care programme.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entail

• Participate, drive, and contribute to continuous service improvement and development.
• Lead quality improvement projects to ensure the agendas for the service are achieved and maintained.
• Demonstrate leadership, flexibility, the ability to support junior member of the team, with the ability to build strong working relationships.
• Actively promotes excellent and collaborative team work across the multidisciplinary team with outcomes aimed at the best interests of the patients.
• Maintain a high level of clinical practice within the service.
• Ensure there is an imbedded clinical governance framework across the service and compliance with reports and audits