Job Overview
The post holder will be responsible and provide operational management and clinical leadership for the community cardiac and respiratory clinical team to deliver optimal care in line with the Care Closer to Home model and emerging Neighbourhood Health.
Use highly developed specialist knowledge to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care for patients with heart failure and respiratory conditions. Ensuring patients are receiving correct evidence-based treatments in line with local policies and NICE guidelines.
The Clinical Manager will provide vision and professional clinical leadership to the Community Heart Failure Team and the Community Respiratory Team and will identify and support internal clinical development and education to ensure high quality person-centred care is maintained which will be dynamic, proactive ad responsive to health and social needs.
To ensure that services are responsive, innovative and operate to the highest possible clinical, performance and quality standards in line with latest guidance within Heart Failure and Respiratory care. Will be responsibility for keeping other team members up to date with any changes to the service delivery.
Promote multidisciplinary working with system partners, including Hospital at Home, UCRT, CATU, ICCTs, PCNs across West Essex.
To provide advice and guidance to other staff on complex cases.
Main duties of the job
Manage and lead the multi-professional team in the delivery of safe and effective evidence-based interventions.
Provide a visible, accessible and professional presence for staff, service users and their families in relation to the Community Cardiac and Community Respiratory services
To deliver a service within the agreed financial envelope ensuring
Ensure continuity of service delivery by working collaboratively with key professionals.
Organise and co-chair in service team meetings working collaboratively with colleagues under the management of the Integrated Service Manager
Contribute to effective communication and liaison with system partners and with other services and professionals including statutory and voluntary agencies and community groups.
Act as a resource for advice and expertise to staff, users, carers and other agencies such as GPs and other primary care and ICB colleagues.
Support all direct reports to plan for 100% compliance with statutory and mandatory training for nursing staff on an annual basis
Ensure performance requirements are met through the production of required statistics and data.
Represent the Trust at system partnership meetings i.e. Expert Oversight Groups, ICS meetings.
Undertake projects or tasks outside the normal responsibilities when required.
Working for our organisation
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
- Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
- Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
- If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
- Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
- Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
- £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us (subject to terms and conditions)
- Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
- Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.
Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.