Job overview
Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust considers the Band 7 team leader role as pivotal to the optimal care of our patients and to the success of our Trust. The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate care is the most important role within the organisation. This clinical leadership role therefore has the authority required to deliver the responsibilities and accountabilities outlined in this job description.
Main duties of the job
The delivery of a seven day, twenty-four hour service (where applicable) by the team or area that you are responsible for or have been delegated the responsibility, this includes:
• High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience and the patient journey.
• Specialist clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience.
• Productivity and financial management of a clinical area with a delegated budget.
• Leading by example.
• Ensuring clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved.
• Effective leadership.
• Analytical and Judgement skills
• Lead on the complex patient assessment, where factors may be conflicting, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning
• To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment.
• To develop the above
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Professional Practice
• To adhere to Code of Conduct/Professional Standards of your Profession e.g. NMC or HCPC.
• As a clinical lead to embrace and implement the vision and values of HHFT.
Job Description
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• To be responsible for creating and maintaining a clinical environment in which care and compassion is consistently demonstrated, ensuring patient centred care, privacy and dignity is practiced at all times.
• To be responsible for ensuring and maintaining a high quality seven day twenty-four hour service (where applicable) for all aspects of your work and the staff in your area/department.
• To maintain, develop and record your own continuing professional development, including booking and attending all statutory, mandatory and Trust or speciality specific training.
• To develop and maintain a department/ward based framework to lead, deliver and support clinical supervision, mentorship and education for all staff and students.
• Band 7 Sister/Charge Nurse, (originally banded as Team Leader in June 2013) Page 2 of 9
• CARE AND COMPASSION ACCOUNTABILITY RESPECT ENCOURAGING EACH OTHER
• To contribute, implement and maintain trust policies, to propose and implement changes to local policies relevant to the patient/client care in your area, working within your scope of practice, professional standards and guidance e.g. medicine management
• Expert clinical practice
• Freedom to Act –
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable as an autonomous practitioner for all aspects of the practitioner’s own professional activities.
• To be the specialist in the clinical speciality for division and Trust, using a broad variety of resources (e.g. policies, internal and external reference points, best practice) to drive improvement in clinical practice.
• Responsibility for patient/client care
• To develop and deliver effective, specialist programmes of care, recording, documenting and maintaining these within trust policies.
• Provide specialist clinical advice within the Trust regarding the area of clinical specialism
• Physical skills
• Highly developed physical skills
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Professional UK registration e.g. NMC, HCPC
Desirable criteria
2. Project management learning and/or development
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
Desirable criteria
4. Involvement in project team for developing and implementing departmental business plans and/or organisation wide developments
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
5. Clinical Skills appropriate to the relevant speciality
Desirable criteria
6. The ability to work at problems from a unique or different angle.