Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the St Helens Musculoskeletal Clinical Assessment Service as the Clinical Team Manager.
The service delivers musculoskeletal care across community sites within St Helens.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Team Manager will have responsibility for the delivery of the Musculoskeletal Clinical Assessment Service. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated, and responsive high-quality care to patients/clients. The post holder will also ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within Musculoskeletal incorporating establishment of systems and processes.The post-holder will work in close partnership with the Clinical Service Manager, Operational Manager and wider clinical team to ensure safe, effective and efficient health services, meeting the needs of the patient population and service needs such as delivering service Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). The post-holder will deputise for the Operational Manager as and when required and liaise with the Senior Management Team to support effective partnership working.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team
- Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the
- Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders , to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
- Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical
- Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client
- Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care
- Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
- Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health
- Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management
- Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and
- Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity
- Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision
- Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex
- Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
- Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
- Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and
- Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified
- Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
- Set objectives by which performance will be monitored
- Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to
- Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested
- Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.
- Contribute to the development of role and service
- Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as
- Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and
- Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage
- Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget
- Undertake personal development plans (PDP) and ensure all team members
- Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs
- Have up to date PDPs, monitor Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and reviews.
- Ensure that all staff attend mandatory
- Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support
- Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and
- Participate in audits and research, as
- Participate in individual and group supervision.
- Implement mentorship and clinical supervision with the
- Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional
- Initiate training and development of team
- Monitor and maintain standards of patient care Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping
- In conjunction with the service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and
- Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service
- Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service
- Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidenced based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.
- Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient
- Maintain registration in line with professional
- Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
- Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team
- Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the
- Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders , to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
- Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical
- Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client
- Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care
- Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
- Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health
- Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management
- Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and
- Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity
- Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision
- Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex
- Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
- Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
- Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and
- Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified
- Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
- Set objectives by which performance will be monitored
- Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to
- Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested
- Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.
- Contribute to the development of role and service
- Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as
- Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and
- Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage
- Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget
- Undertake personal development plans (PDP) and ensure all team members
- Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs
- Have up to date PDPs, monitor Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and reviews.
- Ensure that all staff attend mandatory
- Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support
- Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and
- Participate in audits and research, as
- Participate in individual and group supervision.
- Implement mentorship and clinical supervision with the
- Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional
- Initiate training and development of team
- Monitor and maintain standards of patient care Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping
- In conjunction with the service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and
- Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service
- Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service
- Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidenced based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.
- Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient
- Maintain registration in line with professional
- Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
- Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
- Registration with relevant professional body
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable
- First line management qualification.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
- Registration with relevant professional body
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable
- First line management qualification.
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).
