Virtual Clinical Care Team Lead

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting development opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Team lead to work within Virtual Clinical Care Team .
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate significant experience in the field of Community Nursing with skills of virtual assessment, together with a genuine desire to develop both the service and yourself.
The Team Lead will work in partnership with the Matron and ICT services to ensure that the highest possible standards of practice and service delivery are maintained. As part of this, the post-holder will have a key role of managing clinical and non-clinical operational systems and processes within the team.
They will use their management experience to lead on service changes and developments and contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
They will lead a team, with involvement in service coordination, staff wellbeing, supervision, complaints, governance and service performance and improvement.
The service aims to provide an excellent standard of person centered assessments to patients as part of an integrated service that supports patients to remain in their home environment. You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team in order to support the service and have a high focus on delivering quality outcomes and improving the patient experience.
You will be expected to assess patients within a given geographic area and may mean that you will need to liaise with a variety of GP surgeries.
As both an organisation and a service we are actively involved both local and national innovative projects around improving quality of care, integrated working with stakeholders, designing new pathways. We have an extensive program of training and skills development available for staff and actively nominate and encourage our staff to apply for national awards and recognition, such as Queen’s Nursing Institute, RCN and Nursing Times awards.
The service runs from 7.30 am to 11.30 pm 7 days a week including Bank Holidays.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

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