Job Introduction

We are looking for a Clinical Lead to manage the HCRG Care Group Minor injuries and illness Unit based in Paulton Memorial Hospital, in a lovely rural local between Bristol and Bath.

We are looking for someone who is experienced in clinical management and has a willingness to support MIU staff and service users to ensure robust processes and clinical governance.

The role will be both managerial and clinical. This is a great opportunity for an established clinical leader looking for the next step in their career or a change in location to be part of a fantastic service which continues to evolve.

As a Clinician with professional registration and advanced practice skills, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team made up of Paramedics, Nurses and support staff. The role reports directly to the Matron for MIU and inpatients wards. You will deliver a service of both minor injury and illness support to the local community, working in collaboration with partner organisations including the Royal United Hospital Bath (RUH) and BaNES Enhanced Medical Services BEMS), other specialist units across the region and HCRG Care Group internal services.

For more information please contact Alison Griffiths at Alison.Griffiths@hcrgcaregroup.com

Main Responsibilities

This post is responsible for the following:

• Management- Management of the MIU colleagues to include recruitment, retention, supervision, support, professional development, appraisals, and rota management to ensure delivery of an effective and progressive service. Ensuring adherence to policies and procedures. Delivery of performance related targets.
• Clinical practice- Delivering evidence based advanced clinical practice skills to ensure the appropriate management of patient’s needs. Using skills of triage, prioritisation, assessment, diagnosis, interpretation of tests, such as X Ray, forward planning of care & treatment. Timely intervention & recognition of deteriorating patients, appropriate response, escalation & documentation. Appropriate onward care arrangements. Current Non-medical Prescribing qualification or be working towards gaining one.
• Leadership- Act as a professional role model for colleagues. Demonstrate collaborative working partnerships with partners and stakeholders. Maintaining excellence, quality, safety & working within the scope of own professional practice.
• Audit & research- Participate in, initiate, and deliver audit & research to identify current practice, drive continuous improvement & contribute to the development of new knowledge, theory & practice to benefit patients & colleagues.
• Supporting the learning environment- Commitment to & evidencing of personal professional development. Providing a positive learning environment for students & colleagues. Delivering training & education to support up to date evidenced based practice.
• Continuous improvement- Identifying poor practice & supporting improvement opportunities as part of a Just Culture based on reflection, learning & improvement through SBAR completion, thematic review. Management of incidents with focus on learning and improvement.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be an experienced Clinician & non-medical prescriber with current registration with the associated professional regulatory body. You will have evidence of completion of training to support the delivery of advanced practice skills in either an acute trust ED or in a Urgent Treatment Centre or MIU in a community setting.

Ideally you will have had previous experience in an advanced practice role and the core skills of advanced practice.

You will have experience of colleague and team management and leadership with skills relating to HR issues.

You will be enthusiastic, clinically credible, hardworking, and ready for an exciting challenge.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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Package Description

As The Clinical Lead you’ll be part of our valued team at our BaNES MIU.

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £41,659 - £47,672 (AfC Band 7 Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission