Role Summary
Are you a band 5 Nurse wanting to develop your leadership skills as a band 6? Or are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills and experience to enable patient flow through our service.
About the Role
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role:
The Clinical Team Lead will be supported to develop leadership skills to enable effective supervision and training for Support Workers including; enabling Support Workers in undertaking clinical activities, supporting the delivery of non–accredited education with particular focus on essential and required learning for the different roles.
Supporting in the delivery of structured training, this includes; Medicines Administration, competencies, recognising a deteriorating patient and Manual Handling updates. Work with a range of stakeholders to develop the service in line with patient need and Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust wide developments, and provide an equitable service across the Trust.
The Team Lead will work with Community Multidisciplinary teams to support team members in the management of patients who are referred to Response and Recovery team to enable timely discharge or to prevent an admission.
The post holder will be supported to develop skills to deliver training.
You’ll be part of the Nursing, Paramedic and Therapies team caring for patients who have been identified as needing urgent care within a 2-hour response time, aiming to prevent admissions to hospital. Referrals are received from GP practices, 111, the ambulance service and care homes.
In this role, no two days will be the same and you’ll be able to use your Nursing skills and experience across a wide variety of conditions and patient groups. This might include responding to a patient who has had a fall, treating a new wound or illness and support with long-term health conditions. You’ll be able to utilise your triage, assessment and diagnostic skills to provide care to patients and support their carers in managing the patient’s condition.
]Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00
Interview Date: 20th September 2023
For further information please contact: Cher Evans Service Manager for Response and Recovery on 07925890683 / c.evans11@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
