Job overview
If you are reading this, then you are probably considering taking the next step in your career or you need a new challenge. We can help you with this! We have a one-year secondment available, which could be the perfect opportunity for you to experience a new setting or develop your clinical and leadership skills with one of our passionate Bladder and Bowel Teams within West Sussex.
Are you looking for a team lead position? Are you a registered nurse with an interest in bladder and bowel dysfunction? Then look no further – we have an exciting opportunity right here!
Our Adult Bladder and Bowel Service is based in the CoastalArea of West Sussex, providing compassionate care for our patients in clinics, residential homes, and occasionally in patients’ own homes.
Please note, applicants will need to be car drivers, with the use of a car for work.
Main duties of the job
As Team Lead you will provide operational day-to-day management and leadership of the team; and ensure service outcomes and performance indicators are met.
You will be responsible for staff management, clinical governance, driving innovative change, and ensuring that a high quality service is delivered to our service users.
There is also a clinical requirement. You will undertake holistic bladder and bowel assessments, and participate in treatment planning and the evaluation of individual continence needs. You will also assist in training and supporting nurses in education programmes for all healthcare professionals, carers, and patients.
Candidates will need to be experienced registered nurses with relevant postgraduate qualifications and a management qualification/experience.
If you are patient-centered; committed to delivering high quality care; and have excellent clinical and communication skills, then this is the role for you.
Why choose us?
This is an exciting time for our Bladder and Bowel services across the patch as we work together to ensure consistency and drive the service forwards, gaining the recognition it deserves. Become part of an organisation that really does value its staff and continuously strives to achieve excellent care at the heart of the community.
If you are passionate and really understand the significant difference that bladder and bowel input can make, then we would love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is the largest community healthcare provider in Sussex.
SCFT is an inclusive employer that promotes equality and challenges discrimination, and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. Applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, disabled candidates and LGBT+ candidates are particularly encouraged, to ensure the Trust’s workforce reflects the diverse communities it serves.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver high quality care within the community setting working with patients in the specialism of Bladder and Bowel dysfunction
b) Responsible for leadership, coordination, vision of the team. The team lead will be responsible for day to day management of the team and priorities to ensure service outcomes and performance indicators are met.
c) To work in partnership with other SCFT teams, GPs, local statutory and voluntary organisations, Clinical Commissioning Groups
d) To contribute to the Sussex Community NHS Trust agenda as a member of the management team for community services within a defined area. The post holder is expected to work within organisational and other NHS and Government policies and interpret and facilitate how they are implemented within a defined area.
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3. Communication and Working Relationships
a) To develop a coordinated team within a defined area environment ensuring that communication and engagement are key to the development of the service
b) Quality assurance of work undertaken by team to ensure that all activity is person centred and engages with all appropriate professionals
c) To develop excellent communication across organisational boundaries to enable facilitation and or negotiation of complex and sensitive information.
d) Acts as a clinical expert and information resource, planning and facilitating training and education programmes for staff, students, patients, relatives, carers and others. Contributes to staff induction programmes
4. Key Responsibilities
a) Coordinate and Chair local meetings and check they are run in accordance with agreed Trust standards
b) Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other professional’s individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring onto other services or professionals as appropriate. This will include leading/participating in meetings/case conferences in response to the needs of the individual.
c) Liaison with other teams across central locality to develop consistency and share learning and development.
d) Review and analyse monthly reports on team activity. Ensure that monthly activity is reported through the organisation and to the AWS Finance, Performance and Quality meeting.
e) Work within professional scope of practice and to obtain skills needed to fully meet the above
5. Main Tasks
a) To be responsible for the day to day running of the service, including staff management, allocation of resources
b) The post holder will undertake specialist nursing assessment; using diagnostic equipment and enhanced clinical examination skills to assess, care plan and provide treatment for clients requiring specialist continence skills in all settings.
b) Ensure that effective/efficient use is made of resources in order to achieve optimum patient care and to minimise wastage.
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c) Proactively develops implements and monitors public health and health promotion activities/groups in accordance with national and local priorities.
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This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.
Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please ensure that you check your emails, including your junk folder, on a regular basis. References will be requested electronically as well; please ensure you provide correct contact details for referees.
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