Trosolwg o'r swydd

In this role you will provide clinical leadership for the Intermediate Care Therapy West teams, ensuring the service is safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well-led. You will report directly to the Operational Lead and Therapy Lead(s), being accountable for the quality and performance status of your service, and will deputise for the Operational Lead and Therapy Leads in their absence.

You will work closely with multi-disciplinary leads to ensure the delivery of high quality multi-disciplinary care and positive patient experience, ensuring the service is patient-centred and evidenced-based.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

a)    To provide Clinical and Professional Leadership, ensuring effective governance for staff working in allocated area or service.

b)    To work with the professional leads to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.

c)     To embed the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross-skilling for all staff, including implementing the competency frameworks.

d)    To provide specialist clinical advice, assessment, and intervention regarding complex patients as required.

e) To report, investigate, and manage incidents; sharing learning from incidents and risk with the team and wider organisation as appropriate. 

f) To manage complaints in accordance with Trust policy and share learning across the team.

g) To line manage allocated staff to include, recruitment process, sickness and absence monitoring, and disciplinary / performance issues.

Please refer to the job description for details on the main duties.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff