Clinical Lead

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 March 2025

Job summary

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust and North Tees Trust If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

Are you interested in leadership and a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme? Central Middlesbrough PCN has an opportunity for a permanent clinical lead post and this could be the opportunity for you.

If so, then we have the career changing opportunity for you at South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust.

We are undergoing a significant programme of radical transformation and we have a great opportunity for a clinical lead to provide leadership to the team within your area of responsibility working collaboratively with the Clinical Matron and General Manager in Tees Community Services Directorate.

Main duties of the job

You will provide assurance of safety, quality and the overall patient experience as well as ensuring the effective day to day management of nursing in your area to deliver key quality, performance and financial plans to achieve key service and standards improvements.

To support the trust's future success, you will:

Ensure cost controls in your area expenditure in line with agreed budgets
Work with the Primary Care Network Clinical Director to develop the Primary Care Network and new models of working
Ensure provision of excellent standards of clinical practice
Inspire a culture of excellence focused on patient engagement and experience
Ensuring patient safety is a priority with regular audits in place to monitor compliance
Responsible for standards of care being provided
Have a proven track record of leadership developing a culture of high performance
Promote an environment where learning, research and innovation are actively encouraged and promoted

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that will be critical to the success of a truly transformed future state for the trust and will fundamentally challenge traditional processes and ways of thinking to build an industry leading service that provides excellent quality care to the communities in which we serve.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Date posted

28 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

328-FCS-7027359

Job locations

Low Grange Health Village

Normanby Road

Middlesbrough

TS6 6TD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment
Experience of having successfully delivered a significant service improvement / change project which resulted in positive impact.
Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice.
Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.
Evidence of teaching / training experience.
Experience of Change management.

Qualifications

Essential

To hold a Degree in relevant field awarded by professional body
Registered as fit to practice by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development.

Desirable

To have completed the specialist practitioner qualification in District Nursing (BSc or PGDip)

Knowledge

Essential

To provide expert clinical advice/intervention on specialist complex issues within own field crossing organisational and professional boundaries linking together interventions along the care pathway in accordance with national and local policy directives
Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model.
Able to respond and adapt appropriately to changing needs of the service.
Participate in regular clinical supervision.
Knowledge of clinical governance and risk assessment/management

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment
Experience of having successfully delivered a significant service improvement / change project which resulted in positive impact.
Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice.
Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.
Evidence of teaching / training experience.
Experience of Change management.

Qualifications

Essential

To hold a Degree in relevant field awarded by professional body
Registered as fit to practice by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development.

Desirable

To have completed the specialist practitioner qualification in District Nursing (BSc or PGDip)

Knowledge

Essential

To provide expert clinical advice/intervention on specialist complex issues within own field crossing organisational and professional boundaries linking together interventions along the care pathway in accordance with national and local policy directives
Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model.
Able to respond and adapt appropriately to changing needs of the service.
Participate in regular clinical supervision.
Knowledge of clinical governance and risk assessment/management

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.