Enhanced Care Lead (Mental Health & Dementia)
Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 06 October 2024
Job summary
This is a new role in the Trust, providing strategic leadership, including development of education and research in relation to enhanced care delivery across the Trust in line with the Trust's vision for personalised integrated care services.
The role will have a specific focus on improving quality of care delivery for patients who require enhanced support whilst in hospital due to any cause of neurological impairment, this includes mental health, dementia and delirium. This includes building on current and developing key relationships and pathways across the hospital and other specialist teams.
Main duties of the job
- To support person-centred and relationship-centred enhanced care within Ashford & St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust and work to improve the experience of carers/families who are impacted during hospital admission.
- Provide expert advice and lead in the development of Trust-wide policy and strategy regarding service delivery and development, including analysis of service. Identify practice improvements and develop educational and quality initiatives across all areas of bespoke care delivery to meet patient needs.
- Provide strategic leadership in enhanced care (including MH and dementia) delivery across the Trust in line with the Trust's vision for personalised integrated care services with a specific focus on improving quality of direct care delivery.
- To manage own workload so that a proportion of time is spent providing direct autonomous professional practice; with the remaining time spent developing strategic services alongside existing Trust leadership. The working hours will be normal office hours but there may be an exceptional requirement to work outside these hours to ensure a clear understanding of the day-to-day issues affecting the Team both in and out of hours.
- To manage the specialist enhanced care and dementia team and ensure appropriate support and training is provided to the team
- The post-holder will play a key role in embedding the clinical framework for enhanced care across all staff groups.
About us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- On-site Nurseries
- On-site staff cafes
- On-site parking
- Support in career development
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics
Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:www.asph-careers.org
Date posted
11 September 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,877 to £62,626 a year per annum inc. HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
323-NM9469-MH-A
Job locations
Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundatton Trust
Chertsey
KT16 0PZ
Employer details
Employer name
Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundatton Trust
Chertsey
KT16 0PZ
Employer's website
https://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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