Job overview

We are looking for an experienced registered health or social care leader to join us to continue developing our high profile, flagship team. Having been operational for 6 months, recruiting new staff, developing processes and building our reputation, we are now looking for a Team Lead to take the team forward on it's next steps. 

The team covers Bracknell, North East Hants, Farnham and Surrey Heath, providing a bridging service for patients waiting for care at home: traditionally patients would wait in hospital until their commissioned care could start, now the Trust is providing it's own home care service to meet the patients' needs at home on an interim basis. 

You would be responsible for the operational leadership of the team, directly managing Associate Practitioners who, in turn, manage a team of Healthcare Support Workers, including recruitment, HR, appraisals, budget.

You will work in partnership with, and receive peer support from, the other Intermediate Care Team Leads across ERS (Enhanced Recovery and Support at Home), Community Therapies and Community Inpatient Therapies. We work closely with the Community Nursing Teams and other partner organisations including the Local Authority social care teams.

In return you will receive regular 1:1s, CPD opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Main duties of the job

• To provide expert leadership within community services and the wider Integrated Care Teams, as appropriate, to provide high standards to patients to support earlier discharges from hospital and avoid unnecessary admission to secondary care.
• Undertake professional leadership role in the community. 
• Act as a professional exemplar within the team and locality.
• Working with partners in primary, secondary and social care to support an enhanced recovery model which works in partnership with ICTs and complex case management.
• To act as an autonomous professional accountable for both your own and all delegated professional and/or clinical tasks.
• Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other care professionals, individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services or professionals as appropriate.
• Contribute to the development of service strategy and standard operating procedures.
• Establish local networks in partnership with other health and social professionals/agencies and national links with other generalists in order to develop protocols according to national and local guidelines for the safe and effective provision of care.

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