Clinical Team Lead

• To provide expert leadership within community services and the wider Integrated Care Teams, as appropriate, to provide high standards to patients to support earlier discharges from hospital and avoid unnecessary admission to secondary care.
• Undertake professional leadership role in the community.
• Act as a professional exemplar within the team and locality.
• Working with partners in primary, secondary and social care to support an enhanced recovery model which works in partnership with ICTs and complex case management.
• To act as an autonomous professional accountable for both your own and all delegated professional and/or clinical tasks.
• Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other care professionals, individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services or professionals as appropriate.
• Contribute to the development of service strategy and standard operating procedures.
• Establish local networks in partnership with other health and social professionals/agencies and national links with other generalists in order to develop protocols according to national and local guidelines for the safe and effective provision of care.

Essential

• Advanced clinical practice
• Professional practice and leadership.
• Experience of inter-agency and partnership working.
• Experience in challenging practice and leading in the development of new pathways of care and delivering best practice
• Experience in carrying out audit and risk assessment.
• Experience proactively managing complex long term conditions.

Essential

• Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong IT Skills - including excel and power-point.
• Good Presentation skills / public speaking.