Clinical Lead Nurse / Paramedic - South West

Clinical Lead (Nurse / Paramedic) - South West

Clinical Team

The Clinical Lead is responsible for providing leadership to the remote monitoring nursing team. Fundamental to the role is the monitoring and improving of the services we provide to support the delivery of optimal patient care.

The post holder is required to use their professional judgement gained through extensive professional, managerial and clinical knowledge and experience to manage a variety of patient safety, staffing and quality issues.

Requirements:

• Line management of remote monitoring nurses including regular performance reviews
• Escalate issues, concerns or feedback  (internal or external) to the Chief Medical Officer 
• To take a lead in the recruitment and regular skill mix review of nursing staff to the clinical team
• Demonstrates professional credibility and is a visible member of the clinical leadership team
• Participates in the development of company clinical policies
• Provides daily support and clinical leadership for nurses and ensures patients and staff are safe, cared for and listened to.
• Leads on the preparation required for upcoming CQC inspections and ensures CQC compliance
• Identifies and agrees best nursing practice, incorporating evidence-based practice into everyday work, including guidelines developed by professional bodies.
• Fosters and embeds a clear culture of clinical supervision and support within Doccla.
• Demonstrates a commitment to and focus on quality, and promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
• To audit nursing practice and demonstrate an improving trend 
• To work collaboratively with senior management, clinicians, staff, patients and key stakeholders to build effective working relationships.
• To ensure the highest levels of privacy and dignity are maintained for all patients and carers.
• Participates in the effective management of serious incidents and complaints investigations and responses to these;
• To ensure that there is a specific commitment to deliver equality and inclusiveness in all aspects of clinical service delivery.
• To receive feedback on nursing care delivery 
• Be part of senior clinical management on call rota with necessity to be available on telephone (includes evenings and weekends)

The post holder must demonstrate effective leadership qualities and have extensive experience of patient care. They must be able to work well in a flexible environment with a multidisciplinary team (including non-clinicians). They must be skilled at communicating and able to motivate teams to achieve quality outcomes. 

Above all, the post holder must be passionate about service improvement through innovation and patient-centred care.

Qualifications 

The post holder must:

• be a Registered Nurse with an active NMC pin or HCPC registered;
• have the right to work in the UK; and
• have evidence of specialist knowledge and continuing professional development.

Experience:

The post holder must:

• have recent leadership experience;
• have experience of managing teams;
• have worked as a senior clinical practitioner;
• have a broad understanding of the current healthcare climate;
• have a proven track record of leadership, performance management and organisational change;
• have strong experience of developing effective working partnerships and building collaborative relationships.

Skills/Abilities:

The post holder must:

• be able to read, write and speak English fluently;
• have solid technology acumen;
• have excellent written and verbal communication skills and well-developed interpersonal skills;
• be excellent at team working with the ability to work using their own initiative;
• be a strong role model across Doccla as a whole, and demonstrate compassionate leadership
• be professional and patient-focussed;
• provide clinical advice and expertise in patient management;
• be accountable for their own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct;
• demonstrate a strong commitment to identifying development opportunities, celebrating success, and encouraging creativity, innovation, and excellence in practice;
• develop and establish clinical networks for the sharing of good practice within and outside of Doccla;
• be able to work autonomously with minimal direction;
• have well-developed political awareness, influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills;
• be able to motivate and inspire the clinical team to achieve quality patient outcomes;
• have delegation, people and workload management skills;
• be able to represent Doccla on professional nursing issues and enhance the reputation of the company.
• uses an evidence-based approach to decision making
• ensure clinical activities are benchmarked to best practice and national guidelines;
• have strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• have the ability to identify, develop, nurture and promote innovative approaches to service development
• have well-developed presentation skills; and
• be confident using IT systems MS office (including word and excel).

Ideally, applicants will also have some knowledge and experience of remote patient monitoring technologies