Job summary
The Home First service brings together nurses, therapists, health and therapy assistants, to work with the acute Multi-Disciplinary Team & Transfer of Care Hubs to promote an efficient, effective discharge from hospital to the patient's own home.
Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. Patients who are discharged from hospital into Home First will be receiving step-down intermediate care, involving community-based assessments and interventions provided in their own home to support recovery and monitoring of their health in the early days post discharge to prevent re-admission. Home First will, where required, provide acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
You could become part of our exciting service, bringing the unique benefits of a wraparound recovery service from hospital discharge. The principle of the service ensuring that recovery involves working towards the person being as independent as possible through enablement.
We are looking for a Clinical Lead (nurse) to join us, so if you're an ambitious, proactive, and experienced nurse looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent community care, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
The focus of this role is providing safe, effective, and quality senior clinical care, along with strong clinical leadership, advice, and support to the team.
You will use your comprehensive knowledge and champion excellence in practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. Your specialist clinical assessment skills will support patients with complex needs in addition to providing clinical advice and support to colleagues.
Working with the operational leads and the Nursing Head of Service, you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. You will also be part of the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. Central to this is supporting the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff supporting each other and learning together.
Your experience of working across a variety of clinical settings and working autonomously will help you excel in this role. We will support you to develop specialist areas of practice and your leadership skills through internal and external programmes.
In this role you will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews of members of the team.
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 2024 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 Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staffo 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 Trust
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
As per 'Main duties of the job'
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact Jessica Poulton, Operational Team Lead.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As per 'Main duties of the job'
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact Jessica Poulton, Operational Team Lead.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Currently registered with the NMC as a Nurse (Adults)
- Post registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent, or be willing to undertake
- Non-Medical Prescriber, or be willing to undertake
- Advanced Physical Assessment course or Masters level module, ,
Desirable
- Recognised health leadership qualification or be in the process of completing
Experience
Essential
- Experience in clinical case management
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of a consistent pattern of learning from education and training
- Experience working across the boundaries of primary, community, and secondary care
Desirable
- Experience of clinical leadership in a service
- Experience of leading service development and change
Other Requirements
Essential
- Car driver (Valid driving license for use in the UK)
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
Desirable
- Able to work across a 7 day roster
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Up-to-date knowledge and skills, in acute assessment and deteriorating health
- Up-to-date knowledge of health and social care policy
- Up-to-date knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
- Able to use advanced reasoning and assessment skills in a wide range of approaches to treatment and management of conditions
- Able to analyse complex situations and problem solve as necessary
- Able to undertake prescribed medication review and administration
- Able to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
- Able to mentor, supervise and develop other professionals
- Able to communicate effective where barriers or obstacles exist and able to deploy strategies to overcome these
- Able to use of IT systems and keyboard skills including accurate data recording skills
- Able to identify the training needs of self and others and to provide relevant and appropriate learning
- Able to meet conflicting deadlines, prioritise effectively and manage own and others workload
- Able to meet conflicting deadlines, prioritise effectively and manage own and others workload
- Able to demonstrate a high level of understanding of self and able to identify their own personal limitations and an openness to addressing them
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Currently registered with the NMC as a Nurse (Adults)
- Post registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent, or be willing to undertake
- Non-Medical Prescriber, or be willing to undertake
- Advanced Physical Assessment course or Masters level module, ,
Desirable
- Recognised health leadership qualification or be in the process of completing
Experience
Essential
- Experience in clinical case management
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of a consistent pattern of learning from education and training
- Experience working across the boundaries of primary, community, and secondary care
Desirable
- Experience of clinical leadership in a service
- Experience of leading service development and change
Other Requirements
Essential
- Car driver (Valid driving license for use in the UK)
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
Desirable
- Able to work across a 7 day roster
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Up-to-date knowledge and skills, in acute assessment and deteriorating health
- Up-to-date knowledge of health and social care policy
- Up-to-date knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
- Able to use advanced reasoning and assessment skills in a wide range of approaches to treatment and management of conditions
- Able to analyse complex situations and problem solve as necessary
- Able to undertake prescribed medication review and administration
- Able to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
- Able to mentor, supervise and develop other professionals
- Able to communicate effective where barriers or obstacles exist and able to deploy strategies to overcome these
- Able to use of IT systems and keyboard skills including accurate data recording skills
- Able to identify the training needs of self and others and to provide relevant and appropriate learning
- Able to meet conflicting deadlines, prioritise effectively and manage own and others workload
- Able to meet conflicting deadlines, prioritise effectively and manage own and others workload
- Able to demonstrate a high level of understanding of self and able to identify their own personal limitations and an openness to addressing them
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).
