Team Leader - Birkenhead, United Kingdom - Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Birkenhead, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Vacancies have arisen within the Continuing Care Service. The service offers home care/community support to children with complex medical needs.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic team leaders to join the Continuing Care Team.

The Continuing Care Team provides specialist support for children/young people with complex medical needs, in the community.

As a Team Leader you will be involved in the clinical supervision and ongoing support of our team of Senior Health Care Assistants.

The role will involve cascading training to other team members and therefore the successful applicant must be prepared to undertake further clinical training themselves.

Responsibilities also include planning, implementation and evaluating care in conjunction with parents, carers and other staff members.

You will be working with children and young people aged 0 -19 years with various levels of dependency. All the children/young people you will be working with have complex health issues/severe disabilities.

The service provides bespoke care for a wide range of conditions which range from ventilated dependent young people, terminally ill children and others with severe disabilities/additional complex health problems.

CLINICAL

Planning, implementing and evaluating care plans utilising evidencebased practice.
Visit/contact families to offer support, advice and training.
Actively participate in teaching sessions to care staff.
Facilitate competencybased training for care staff.
Monitoring and evaluation of competencybased practice on a regular basis.
Clear and concise recording of competencybased practice.
Be actively involved in staff support offering clinical supervision to care staff.
Be involved in multidisciplinary meetings.
Liaise with other members of the multidisciplinary meetings
Act as a resource for clinical advice and support. This will involve oncall working

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us.

We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department.

We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

CLINICAL

Responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating all plans in conjunction with other staff members, parents and carers.
To maintain a high standard of care by utilising evidence and research based practice.
To ensure nursing practices are maintained within the Trust's Policies, Procedures and Guidelines. To also develop guidelines relating to the individual child's care needs.
To promote effective communication system, which ensures a team approach to family centred case is adopted.
To maintain accurate records in relation to patient care to meet the requirements of the guidelines for records and record keeping NMC 199
Participate in the training and teaching of all staff within the packages of care.
Monitoring reassessment of the clinical competence of staff.

MANAGEMENT

Accept delegated managerial responsibilities.
Be involved in clinical supervision and ongoing support of staff.
Be aware of economic and correct use/maintenance of resources.
Liaison with other agencies: Education, Health, Social Services and the voluntary sector.
Be involved in supporting and implementing of clinical risk management.
Be involved with performance review in accordance with Wirral Hospital's agreed policy.

Be involved in staff recruitment selection process.