Clinical Practice Lead Nurse (Operations)

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Job overview

Are you passionate about ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based community nursing care is provided to the residents of Derbyshire?

If so this exciting opportunity to have a positive influence on the future development of community nursing services could be for you!

As Clinical Practice Lead Nurse (Operations) you will be responsible for promoting excellence in the operational clinical practice of the community nursing teams across Derbyshire, cultivating matrix working within DCHS and with system partners, and planning initiatives to support the development of services to align with strategic direction.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Practice Lead Nurse job involves representing the community nursing teams in transformation initiatives, both at local and system level so you will need to have a robust understanding of working within Community Nursing teams and the challenges and rewards this brings.

You will oversee processes for ensuring standards of care, productivity and efficiency are sustained, identifying concerns and making improvements as required, including sharing lessons learned, workforce planning and service development. This involves working closely with colleagues across DCHS e.g. Quality and Professional Standards division, Operations Hub, and so networking and communication skills will be essential.

This role also includes leadership and management of the Clinical Lead Nurses and Clinical Practice Facilitators who work with frontline clinicians to support competencies and implement service improvements so you will need to have line management experience.

The job involves hybrid working with a significant proportion of your time working from home, whilst you will also need to travel to all sites across the trust to meet face to face with your team and frontline services as necessary. You will need to be comfortable working in a self directed way, with the ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines.

Working for our organisation

This is a new post developed alongside a Clinical Practice Lead AHP with a clear clinical leadership structure for the Community Care Division, demonstrating the resolve of the Trust to support excellence in clinical practice. You will be an integral part of the divisions dynamic senior management team where you will find plenty of support, stimulating (appropriate) challenge and personal development opportunities.

At DCHS we put the quality of our patient care at the heart of everything we do.

We believe that our staff are central to this, ensuring that we provide care to patients with dignity and respect, where we cause no intentional harm and where we ensure a good patient experience.

This focus has resulted in us consistently scoring top in the staff survey for employee engagement and organisational focus on staff wellbeing across all community NHS trusts

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role and main responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse
• Masters level training or equivalent
• Post graduate Management, Leadership Qualification (or equivalent experience)

Experience

• Evidence of working in Community Nursing team
• Demonstrable experience leading and managing change
• Evidence of strong line management and leadership experience

• previous project management experience

Skills

• Able to balance competing priorities and achieve challenging deadlines
• Ability to collaborate effectively and maintain successful partnerships

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) is one of the largest providers of specialist community healthcare in England and we currently employ around 4,500 staff. We deliver a variety of services across Derbyshire, caring for nearly 1.8 million patients each year.

As a Trust we care for patients of all ages with a special focus on the needs of elderly people and the very young.

DCHS has been recognised as a top 10 NHS organisation to work for in the UK by the Health Service Journal and NHS Employers in their Best Places to Work 2015 campaign. The Trust is also the runner-up in the category for the best NHS community trust employer.

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Our vision “to be the best provider of local healthcare and to be a great place to work”

Our values:

1. To get the basics right
2. To act with compassion and respect
3. To make a difference
4. To value and develop teamwork
5. To value everyone’s contribution because everyone matters

The majority of our locations offer free parking facilities for staff.

We will communicate with you regarding your application via email so please check your email account on a regular basis. If using hotmail, MSN or yahoo email accounts please check your 'junk/spam' mail regularly.

If you require any support in completing the application form please do not hesitate to contact the Recruitment Team, 01332 564856, option 1, option 1 or [email protected] and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please note - if we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our service and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.