Job summary
As a Band 7 Diabetes Team Lead, you will work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team, providing operational team leader support. The post holder is expected to provide visible leadership, demonstrating Mersey Care values within the team. Although diabetes knowledge would be an advantage, it is not required to provide operational leadership to the team.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Diabetes Team Lead. You will be expected to work across Sefton Place to provide a service to patients in Southport, Formby and the South Sefton area.
Experience of Leadership/Management is essential for the role. It is essential that you possess excellent leadership and communication skills, ensuring that you take initiative and work autonomously to effectively lead the team.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role requirements.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of leadership & management
- Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting
- Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care /chronic disease management/long term conditions/palliative, end of life care
- Evidence of collaborative working with multiprofessional colleagues
- Evidence of effective communication across all levels of the organisation and with all stakeholders
- Awareness of current initiatives within the local & National health economy and of applicable guidelines, protocols, and frameworks
- Knowledge and experience of budget management
- Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local agendas and how these translate into local practice
- Evidence of providing professional/clinical leadership at postgraduate level
- Good working knowledge of the clinical governance agenda/National & Local priorities
Desirable
- Research & Development experience
- Experience of managing complaint
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
- Ability to exercise critical thinking skills
- Ability to analyse date and present information to various audiences
- Ability to implement programmes or work streams leading to service changes
- Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical knowledge in relation to community nursing
- Forward thinking able to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
- Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
- Operational planning and delivery of care for complex caseloads including chronic disease management/Long term conditions/palliative care
- Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
- Must have access to a vehicle & be able to commute to meet the demands of the role and remain flexible - to meet the demands of the service
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented2
Qualifications
Essential
- First level Registered Nurse
- Evidence of Post registration education in related areas
- Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing
Desirable
- Practice Teacher willingness to undertake
- Previous management course/qualification
- First level qualification in District Nursing / specialist Practitioners qualification in District Nursing
- Nurse Prescriber V150/300
- Master's degree
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of leadership & management
- Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting
- Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care /chronic disease management/long term conditions/palliative, end of life care
- Evidence of collaborative working with multiprofessional colleagues
- Evidence of effective communication across all levels of the organisation and with all stakeholders
- Awareness of current initiatives within the local & National health economy and of applicable guidelines, protocols, and frameworks
- Knowledge and experience of budget management
- Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local agendas and how these translate into local practice
- Evidence of providing professional/clinical leadership at postgraduate level
- Good working knowledge of the clinical governance agenda/National & Local priorities
Desirable
- Research & Development experience
- Experience of managing complaint
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
- Ability to exercise critical thinking skills
- Ability to analyse date and present information to various audiences
- Ability to implement programmes or work streams leading to service changes
- Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical knowledge in relation to community nursing
- Forward thinking able to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
- Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
- Operational planning and delivery of care for complex caseloads including chronic disease management/Long term conditions/palliative care
- Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
- Must have access to a vehicle & be able to commute to meet the demands of the role and remain flexible - to meet the demands of the service
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented2
Qualifications
Essential
- First level Registered Nurse
- Evidence of Post registration education in related areas
- Master's level study in relevant area of specialist nursing
Desirable
- Practice Teacher willingness to undertake
- Previous management course/qualification
- First level qualification in District Nursing / specialist Practitioners qualification in District Nursing
- Nurse Prescriber V150/300
- Master's degree
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
