Community Response Hub Clinical Team Leader

Job overview

Are you a clinician with person centred leadership skills with a keen interest in community care? Would you like to be part of the leadership team working in partnership with colleagues and key stakeholders to continue the development of our Community Response Hubs ?  This is an opportunity to lead  in one of our 3 Community Response Hubs.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated registered nurse/therapist who is committed to working with our local populations to enable people to return home from hospital at the earliest opportunity. The successful applicants will have a proven ability to lead in implementing and sustain changes and ability to work collaboratively with other organisations and bring people together. You will provide via yourself and the team a high quality, effective service to patients throughout their discharge journey from hospital and into their homes.

Main duties of the job

You  will be responsible for all operational management across the team, provide leadership to colleagues from various organisations working together. Provide day to day management of staff within your team including appraisals, supervision, absence management, budget management and rostering. To provide clinical oversight of a complex and varied community caseload.

You will play an integral role in developing the service and aligning services to work together in a home first approach.

To clinically lead, operationally manage and develop an efficient and effective community response hub delivering multidisciplinary health and social care for adults, older people and their carers. Ensuring that the Trust values, policies, procedures and good practice are adhered to and which ensures that adults and older people receive seamless, evidenced based services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: [email protected] or by calling 01244 393100.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.  Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.  New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!