Job overview
B7 Clinical Lead for Hambleton & Richmondshire
Are you interested in leadership and are you a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme?
If you are, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity of a clinical lead post within Clinical Service Unit 10 - Community and Neighbourhood Health services covering Hambleton & Richmondshire locality.
We are undergoing a significant programme of radical transformation within community services, and we have a great opportunity for a clinical lead to provide leadership to the teams within your area of responsibility, working collaboratively with the Clinical Matron and General Manager.
You will provide assurance of safety, quality and the overall patient experience as well as ensuring the effective day to day management of nursing in your area to deliver key quality, performance, and financial plans, to achieve service and standards improvements.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training; programmes have been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.
Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will hold 24 hour responsibility for the clinical area with support from the Clinical Matron and General Manager. They will ensure that they lead and clinically manage the area so that safe, high quality, evidence based nursing care is delivered to patients whilst respecting and involving families and carers as partners in care.
This post includes both operational and clinical responsibilities with the post holder spending a percentage of their working week (10% - 50%) providing visible and hands on clinical care to patients whilst working closely within the attached primary care network (PCN) to lead and provide coordinated care through integrated teams.
The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the community nursing workforce and will work in conjunction with the senior management team and the PCN to manage the budget for the area to ensure the best use of resources.
Working for our organisation
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
Your Leadership Impact
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust values and behaviours
Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment.
2. Experience of having successfully delivered a significant service improvement / change project which resulted in positive impact.
3. Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change
4. Evidence of teaching / training
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
5. Registered as fit to practice by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
6. To hold a Degree/diploma in relevant field awarded by professional body along with specialist training to masters level
7. Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development
Desirable criteria
8. To have completed the specialist practitioner qualification in District Nursing (BSc or PGDip)
9. To hold Leadership and management qualification
10. To hold or be working towards MSc or relevant post-graduation qualification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
11. Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model
12. Participate in regular clinical supervision
Disclosure and Barring Checks (DBS)
It is now the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. We welcome applications from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network; LGBT+ Network; Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions Network, Faith Network, Childless not by Choice Network and the Menopause Support Group.
As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.
If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at
Right to Work in the UK
The Trust welcomes applications from all candidates who meet the criteria for the role. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - (.
Please provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Your current immigration status will not be considered as part of the shortlisting or interview process.
Please note that not everyone needs a Skilled Worker visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead.
We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - ( and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - (
Please note: if the job you are applying for does not meet the eligibility criteria above, we will be unable to offer you sponsorship and you will need to explore whether you may be eligible to apply for an alternative immigration route which will secure your right to work in the UK before you apply. If you are in the UK already on a visa, please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.
The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.
Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.
Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.