Clinical Manager Children’s Community Nursing Team inHillingdon inHillingdon PUBLISHED THU 24 OCT 2024

• To lead and manage the delivery of children's community nursing services in line with the Trust's strategic direction, ensuring the delivery of high value, patient centred, responsive and efficient patient care
• To work effectively with the designated operational contacts for local service providers i.e. GP practices and other stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and partnership working.
• To support the clinical service manager in the delivery of locality based services, ensuring an integrated approach with specialist services, focused on meeting the needs of a designated community of children and their family/carers
• To ensure services are delivered in a highly professional and clinically safe manner, in conjunction with the business support team and in accordance with local and national policies and procedures, including compliance with Care Quality Commission standards.
• To provide management and leadership to staff within areas of responsibility, ensuring implementation of and compliance with policies and procedures.
• To take responsibility for ensuring effective capacity and demand management across service areas, in order to meet agreed activity levels, in line with the wider children's services performance plan.
• To be responsible for ensuring outcome measures are developed and implemented within areas of service responsibility.
• To be responsible for the delegated budget and resource management in line with standing financial instructions

• To work effectively with the designated operational contacts for local service providers i.e. GP practices and other stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and partnership working.
• To support the clinical service manager in the delivery of locality based services, ensuring an integrated approach with specialist services, focused on meeting the needs of a designated community of children and their family/carers
• To ensure services are delivered in a highly professional and clinically safe manner, in conjunction with the business support team and in accordance with local and national policies and procedures, including compliance with Care Quality Commission standards.
• To provide management and leadership to staff within areas of responsibility, ensuring implementation of and compliance with policies and procedures.
• To take responsibility for ensuring effective capacity and demand management across service areas, in order to meet agreed activity levels, in line with the wider children's services performance plan.
• To be responsible for ensuring outcome measures are developed and implemented within areas of service responsibility.
• To be responsible for the delegated budget and resource management in line with standing financial instructions

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Operational Management

Take responsibility on behalf of the Clinical Service Manager for the operational management and continuity of the childrens community nursing service.

Provide leadership to and be responsible for team members in the day to day running of the service, promoting multidisciplinary working and ensuring organisational and divisional barriers do not prevent the development and functioning of integrated care pathways and high quality patient care.

Undertake regular audit of adherence to associated local and national policies, guidance (e.g. NICE) and standards of care

Contribute to the achievement of standards within the areas of responsibility, working effectively with other service managers and clinical staff to ensure agreed standards are maintained

Prepare and deliver service reviews as agreed, reporting on the performance of services within area of responsibility.

Support service to ensure effective leadership and management of resources, including budgetary responsibilities

Investigate and respond to complaints and incidents/serious incidents within a specified timeframe, analysing and monitoring data collected and collated from each service area to ensure that action is taken to correct and prevent recurrence.

Ensure escalation processes are understood and embedded within operational teams.

Be responsible, in conjunction with the Clinical Service Manager and Finance lead, for ensuring the budget remains in balance, efficient use is made of service resources and the Trusts Standing Financial Instructions are adhered to.

• Take responsibility for performance management and achievement in the service, including management of effective clinical governance and enhancing patient safety.