Lead for Inpatient Centre

Job responsibilities

Lead with purpose: Provide visible, inspiring leadership to a dynamic clinical team. Mentor and develop: Oversee recruitment, training, and appraisal processes to nurture professional growth. Drive excellence: Ensure compliance with clinical governance and quality standards, including infection control. Innovate: Manage change effectively to continuously improve care delivery and patient outcomes. Collaborate: Work across professional boundaries to deliver seamless, holistic care.

Qualifications

Essential

• Current registration with NMC or other professional body
• Training to a minimum degree level

Desirable

• Evidence of post qualification study/professional development
• Leadership or Management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Rich and varied experience at a senior management level within a clinical team
• Experience of contributing to mentoring, training and education (including performance review) of professional staff
• Experience of recruitment, selection, and interviewing
• Experience of effective line management and supervision of teams
• Experience of managing staffing to ensure appropriate workloads, skills mix and rotas
• Experience of providing high quality patient care, and of encouraging others to do the same
• Experience of effectively and successfully managing resources (financial, physical and human)
• Evidence of working with a range of professionals across boundaries
• Evidence of implementing and using clinical governance systems
• Experience of managing change

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Knowledge of current National Palliative Care guidance and initiatives.
• Good standard of IT literacy
• Proven experience and understanding of individualised patient care
• Leadership and change management skills
• Evidence of continuing professional development within specialist palliative care.
• Understanding of infection control and compliance
• Advanced Clinical assessment and analytical skills.

Desirable

• Understanding and experience of working with quality indicators, KPIs,

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).