Job overview
Are you enthusiastic? Passionate? Looking for an opportunity to lead?
Hospital at Home (Eating Disorders) is an exciting service developed in collaboration with the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home (ED) team supports young people with eating disorders who meet the threshold for inpatient care. In some cases, admission will be prevented and in others, young people will be stepped down to this model following a short inpatient admission. Hospital at Home (ED) maximises the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission rates, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.
This position offers hybrid working and the current work pattern offers days working at home, please note that this can be subject to change due to the service need. This role is based at Slade House, Oxford.
Main duties of the job
· To ensure that a responsive high quality, safe and patient focused service is delivered.
· To work effectively, and in partnership with, key members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to promote and facilitate effective patient care and discharge.
· To influence the development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to the service.
· To develop and sustain close and effective working relationships with partner services.
· To support registered and unregistered nursing staff in their professional development and in the promotion of best practice.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
12. RMN registered
13. Evidence of ongoing development and education
14. Experience in supervision
15. Intermediate IT skills with experience using Microsoft software packages
Desirable criteria
16. Relevant post- graduate training
17. Teaching experience
Experience
Essential criteria
18. Range of clinical experience
19. Participation in service improvement projects
20. Experience in discharge planning
21. Evidence of working with multi-disciplinary teams and other professionals
22. Supervisory and management skills problem solving skills
Desirable criteria
23. Experience leading service improvement projects
24. Community experience
25. Change Management skills
Personal qualities/other
Essential criteria
26. Ability to work well under pressure
27. Flexible approach to work
28. Awareness and acceptance of the rights and needs of service users and staff.
29. Ability to attend in person meetings at least twice a year in Oxford or Swindon
30. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
31. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
32. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
33. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
34. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
35. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
36. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
37. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing