Job summary
We have 5 exciting opportunities available within theTransfer of Care Hub for therapists with expertise in community care and rehabilitation to support Acute to community discharges.
The ToCH Therapy Site Lead will provide senior therapy and clinical leadership and expert advice to staff pertaining to all matters of discharge/transfer to ensure high quality and safe patient flow with specific responsibility for identifying and facilitating the "pull" of patients in pathways 1 and 2 directly into SCFT community services.
The ToCH Therapy Site lead is a key member of the TOCHs and will work closely with the Site Capacity and Flow Lead, Capacity and Flow Head of Service and the TOCH leads to develop a strategy to improve patient experience and outcomes of discharge /transfer by focusing on system wide data and patient and staff feedback.
Roles are based within following ToCH teams: -
Worthing General Hospital (Worthing)
St. Rischard's Hospital (Chichester)
Sussex and Surrey Healthcare Trust (Redhill)
Royal Sussex County Hospital (Brighton)
You will play an active role in the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. This is a fantastic environment in which to develop your leadership skills through formal and supported training, using these to assist in shaping future clinical practice of the team.
Main duties of the job
a) To lead, oversee and drive forward effective and efficient patient flow, ensuring continuous improvement across pathways 1-3 at a named hospital site. b) To provide subject matter expertise in Intermediate Care pathways on discharge from hospital. To include home first, rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services.c) Provide clinical leadership to embed a consistent 'get you home approach' with clinicians and operational leaders as the default discharge pathway from hospital.d) Drive forward a 'home first' culture across acute and community teams, encouraging collaborative working and trusted assessment processes between therapy teams to increase productivity and improve patient experience and continuity.e) Attend/lead the named site operational and performance meetings including daily calls /huddles (for all pathways).f) To work collaboratively with external stakeholders and partner organisations to address urgent care local pressure, system surges and escalation ensuring capacity is fully utilised.g) Provide leadership, support and education to UHSx discharge co-ordinators and SCFT in reach practitioners.
i) To support ward staff, patients and their families to agree discharge/transfer plans providing practical solutions to prevent unnecessary delays.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ToCH Therapy Site Lead will provide senior therapy and clinical leadership and expert advice to staff pertaining to all matters of discharge/transfer to ensure high quality and safe patient flow with specific responsibility for identifying and facilitating the pull of patients in pathways 1 and 2 directly into SCFT community services.The ToCH Therapy Site lead is a key member of the TOCHs and will work closely with the Site Capacity and Flow Lead, Capacity and Flow Head of Service and the TOCH leads to develop a strategy to improve patient experience and outcomes of discharge /transfer by focusing on system wide data and patient and staff feedback.The role involves managing and coordinating a wide range of complex and competing priorities regarding discharge/transfer and necessitates working closely with a range of health and social care system partners.Roles are based within following ToCH teams: -Worthing General Hospital (Worthing)St. Rischards Hospital (Chichester)Sussex and Surrey Healthcare Trust (Redhill)Princess Royal Hospital (Haywards Heath)Royal Sussex County Hospital (Brighton)You will play an active role in the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. This is a fantastic environment in which to develop your leadership skills through formal and supported training, using these to assist in shaping future clinical practice of the team.
a) To lead, oversee and drive forward effective and efficient patient flow, ensuring continuous improvement across pathways 1-3 at a named hospital site. b) To provide subject matter expertise in Intermediate Care pathways on discharge from hospital. To include home first, rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services.c) Provide clinical leadership to embed a consistent get you home approach with clinicians and operational leaders as the default discharge pathway from hospital.d) Drive forward a home first culture across acute and community teams, encouraging collaborative working and trusted assessment processes between therapy teams to increase productivity and improve patient experience and continuity.e) Attend/lead the named site operational and performance meetings including daily calls /huddles (for all pathways). Provide clinical leadership within these meetings to embed consistent, needs based and personalised discharge pathway decision making. Delegate or follow up on specific actions following these meetings.f) To work collaboratively with external stakeholders and partner organisations to address urgent care local pressure, system surges and escalation ensuring capacity is fully utilised.g) Provide leadership, support and education to UHSx discharge co-ordinators and SCFT in reach practitioners. Enhancing the intermediate care and community service knowledge base throughout the team and ToCH. Including the General Virtual Ward offer.h) Offer regular updates or education sessions to acute teams to enhance knowledge and understanding of community services.i) To support ward staff, patients and their families to agree discharge/transfer plans providing practical solutions to prevent unnecessary delays.j) Work collaboratively with acute clinicians and community discharge assessors to provide expert case management support or review for complex cases and patients with a high level of need.k) Support the consistent completion and use of clinical tools to describe need at ward level. To then support the clinical discussion and stratification of discharge pathways consistently within the ToCH. l) To contribute to the development of the Trusts operational policies relating to patient flow and discharge.m) Collect and analyse discharge, clinical tool and patient need data. Contributing to wider capacity demand workstreams and subsequently describing the future of community service and workforce options or innovation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ToCH Therapy Site Lead will provide senior therapy and clinical leadership and expert advice to staff pertaining to all matters of discharge/transfer to ensure high quality and safe patient flow with specific responsibility for identifying and facilitating the pull of patients in pathways 1 and 2 directly into SCFT community services.The ToCH Therapy Site lead is a key member of the TOCHs and will work closely with the Site Capacity and Flow Lead, Capacity and Flow Head of Service and the TOCH leads to develop a strategy to improve patient experience and outcomes of discharge /transfer by focusing on system wide data and patient and staff feedback.The role involves managing and coordinating a wide range of complex and competing priorities regarding discharge/transfer and necessitates working closely with a range of health and social care system partners.Roles are based within following ToCH teams: -Worthing General Hospital (Worthing)St. Rischards Hospital (Chichester)Sussex and Surrey Healthcare Trust (Redhill)Princess Royal Hospital (Haywards Heath)Royal Sussex County Hospital (Brighton)You will play an active role in the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. This is a fantastic environment in which to develop your leadership skills through formal and supported training, using these to assist in shaping future clinical practice of the team.
a) To lead, oversee and drive forward effective and efficient patient flow, ensuring continuous improvement across pathways 1-3 at a named hospital site. b) To provide subject matter expertise in Intermediate Care pathways on discharge from hospital. To include home first, rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services.c) Provide clinical leadership to embed a consistent get you home approach with clinicians and operational leaders as the default discharge pathway from hospital.d) Drive forward a home first culture across acute and community teams, encouraging collaborative working and trusted assessment processes between therapy teams to increase productivity and improve patient experience and continuity.e) Attend/lead the named site operational and performance meetings including daily calls /huddles (for all pathways). Provide clinical leadership within these meetings to embed consistent, needs based and personalised discharge pathway decision making. Delegate or follow up on specific actions following these meetings.f) To work collaboratively with external stakeholders and partner organisations to address urgent care local pressure, system surges and escalation ensuring capacity is fully utilised.g) Provide leadership, support and education to UHSx discharge co-ordinators and SCFT in reach practitioners. Enhancing the intermediate care and community service knowledge base throughout the team and ToCH. Including the General Virtual Ward offer.h) Offer regular updates or education sessions to acute teams to enhance knowledge and understanding of community services.i) To support ward staff, patients and their families to agree discharge/transfer plans providing practical solutions to prevent unnecessary delays.j) Work collaboratively with acute clinicians and community discharge assessors to provide expert case management support or review for complex cases and patients with a high level of need.k) Support the consistent completion and use of clinical tools to describe need at ward level. To then support the clinical discussion and stratification of discharge pathways consistently within the ToCH. l) To contribute to the development of the Trusts operational policies relating to patient flow and discharge.m) Collect and analyse discharge, clinical tool and patient need data. Contributing to wider capacity demand workstreams and subsequently describing the future of community service and workforce options or innovation.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or professional registration
Essential
- Educated to degree level or proven equivalent experience, skills and knowledge demonstrable
- HCPC registered with therapy leadership experience
- Up to date NHS policy initiatives, changes and developments
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or masters equivalent knowledge gained through experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience of effective management of health and care services specifically relating to intermediate care and management of complex patients along the discharge and intermediate care pathways
- Experience of working with the wider health and social care system, including acute providers, to develop systems of care that respond to requirements
- Experience of delivering challenging performance agendas and ability to demonstrate significant performance improvements
- Experience of working with a defined performance framework set by commissioners and regulators and delivering required performance standards
Desirable
- Experience of managing and leading change in complex operational environments
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Able to make and take decisions after analysis of option and implications
- Able to secure commitment from others to change programmes and able to use persuasion and influence to enthuse others and develop and improve services
- Able to multi-task, prioritise and continue to function to a high standard when under pressure
- Able to build effective working relationships at all levels within and outside the Trust
Desirable
- Able to use Microsoft Word & IT literate to produce reports
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or professional registration
Essential
- Educated to degree level or proven equivalent experience, skills and knowledge demonstrable
- HCPC registered with therapy leadership experience
- Up to date NHS policy initiatives, changes and developments
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or masters equivalent knowledge gained through experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience of effective management of health and care services specifically relating to intermediate care and management of complex patients along the discharge and intermediate care pathways
- Experience of working with the wider health and social care system, including acute providers, to develop systems of care that respond to requirements
- Experience of delivering challenging performance agendas and ability to demonstrate significant performance improvements
- Experience of working with a defined performance framework set by commissioners and regulators and delivering required performance standards
Desirable
- Experience of managing and leading change in complex operational environments
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Able to make and take decisions after analysis of option and implications
- Able to secure commitment from others to change programmes and able to use persuasion and influence to enthuse others and develop and improve services
- Able to multi-task, prioritise and continue to function to a high standard when under pressure
- Able to build effective working relationships at all levels within and outside the Trust
Desirable
- Able to use Microsoft Word & IT literate to produce reports
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
