Home First Team Lead - Salford, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

An exciting opportunity to join our Home First Acute Discharge Team / Community Hub Team. The role will be based across two sites (Hospital and Community). We are a multi-disciplinary team covering the whole of Salford facilitating clients discharge back into their own home. Our vision for Home First is 'People are in the right place, at the right time - meaning nobody spends more nights away from home than is absolutely necessary'

We are looking for an experienced Band 7 Home First Team Leader to join our service.

You should have significant post registration experience including working in an Acute or Community and setting, covering a wide variety of clinical areas.

You will be a excellent team player and also possess excellent communication skills and must be able to work on your own initiative to organise and prioritise your own caseload and balance this with the demands of this diverse and varied role.

Your workload will include being the 'coordinator' of the day in the Home First Community Hub.

The post holder will work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team consisting of Therapists, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Mental Health, Voluntary Sectors, Housing and Admin supporting the development of the discharge services to deliver care closer to home.

Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team, driving the changes to Hospital discharge. The post holder will have the opportunity to work across the discharge services.

Main duties of the job:

Supporting Hospital Discharge the role of the Home First Team Leader is to advise and support the Home First Community Hub Team and the Home First Acute Discharge Team by providing information and specialist knowledge to patients, their families and carers.

To act as a resource to the multi-professional team. Supporting a Home First strength based approach to patients being discharged from the Acute hospitals.

Proactive member of the discharge team
To work as part of the multidisciplinary team to meet the aims and

objectives of the Trust with regards to discharge planning and bed
management.

To be actively involved in multidisciplinary discharge planning

meetings with patients and other professional members of the multi-disciplinary team.

To maintain a high clinical profile, to support and advise wardbased

staff on discharge issues, to empower and advise ward-based staff to be more actively involved in discharge planning and access care pathways, where appropriate.

Facilitate quality discharge ensuring the Discharge Policy is adhered to.

Working for our organisation:

Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation.

Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults.

Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Experience:

Essential criteria:

Management / Leadership Qualification
Evidence of Professional / Clinical and managerial expertise and knowledge acquired through CPD and experience
Knowledge of the NHS Discharge policy

Desirable criteria:

Evidence of effective Multi-Agency working
Demonstrates specialist expertise in Discharge underpinned by theory
Evidence of Leadership, management and team development
To demonstrate an awareness and understanding of supporting equality & valuing diversity within their role
To demonstrate an overarching knowledge of current legislation, guidance and policy in relation to discharge

Experience:

Essential criteria:

Previous hospital experience
Discharge experience

Desirable criteria:

Five years' hospital experience
Leadership experience
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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