Health and Social Care Hub Clinical Lead inPlymouth inPlymouth PUBLISHED THU 5 DEC 2024

37.5 hours per week.

We have a great opportunity for an individual with a Health or Social Care background to join a progressive and forward thinking locality

This is a fantastic management opportunity within a very supportive and innovative locality team

You will bring extensive experience in health/social care roles, and a professional or management qualification (or equivalent experience), to provide leadership to the South Hams and West Devon Health & Social Care Hubs. This integrated Health and Social Care resource supports multidisciplinary delivery of the urgent community response and discharge pathways.

And all of this working in the beautiful working environment of the South Hams and West Devon......

"Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility".

Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

To have management responsibility & joint operational responsibility for Health and Social Care Hubs in SH & WD. To develop and promote a H&SC offer that meet the needs of the local population, monitoring service priorities ensuring the service is effective, equitable and client focused.

To be responsible for optimising the use of resources and respond proactively to changes in service need. To implement relevant professional competency frameworks in a joined up approach with Devon.

To lead on the provision of learning and development opportunities for Hub staff, ensuring that in-service training, external learning and the use of protected learning time are fulfilled in order to meet the requirements for continuing professional development To implement, monitor and evaluate quality standards and effectiveness of service delivery.

To identify professional issues in collaboration with the team leaders that need to be addressed at a strategic level, working with professional leads to reach appropriate agreed actions. To lead ongoing review and evaluation of the H&SC Hub skill mix at a strategic level, developing and implementing innovative models of service delivery in collaboration with locality managers, team lead and stake holders.

To be an active member of relevant working and steering groups e.g. developing new and existing H7SC offers. This will include giving expert guidance to groups and contributing to relevant policies / protocols.

About us

Primary duties and responsibilities

To have leadership responsibility & joint operational responsibility for the Health and Social Care Hubs in South Hams & West Devon locality.

To develop and promote a H&SC offer that meet the needs of the local population, monitoring service priorities ensuring the service is effective, equitable and client focused.

To be responsible for optimising the use of resources and respond proactively to changes in service need.

To implement relevant clinical and professional competency frameworks in a joined up approach with Devon.

To lead on the provision of learning and development opportunities for Hub staff, ensuring that in-service training, external learning and the use of protected learning time are fulfilled in order to meet the requirements for continuing professional development

To implement, monitor and evaluate quality standards and effectiveness of service delivery.

To identify professional issues in collaboration with the team leaders that need to be addressed at a strategic level, working with professional leads to reach appropriate agreed actions.

To lead ongoing review and evaluation of the H&SC Hub skill mix at a strategic level, developing and implementing innovative models of service delivery in collaboration with locality managers, team lead and stake holders.

To be an active member of relevant working and steering groups e.g. developing new and existing H7SC offers. This will include giving professional/expert guidance to groups and contributing to relevant policies / protocols.

To have an overarching perspective, support and take part in research within the profession and to be up to date with current trends and research applicable to practice.

Managerial/clinical leadership, policy and service development

To provide highly skilled management leadership for H&SC Hubs.

Ensure access to expert advice/ highly skilled leadership.

Ensure implementation of relevant professional guidelines and standards

To assist in the implementation of relevant care pathways within H&SC Hubs

To collaborate with practice leads in the production and implementation of managerial/ clinical policies in relation to H&SC Hubs that will support evidence based or best practice

To be an autonomous practitioner, offering highly specialised, expert advice to highly complex cases.

Analyse and respond quickly to complex clinical and social care situations utilising highly specialist knowledge to formulate solutions and recommendations

Staff and personal professional development

To develop a CPD strategy along side a Devon Wide practice lead that ensures the professional group maintain standards of up to date practice to maintain their skill set and to maximise their own learning

Support the CPD requirements of the profession, including identification of training requirements and leading on a minimum of one CPD event per year.

To undertake all mandatory training as required and any identified clinical or non clinical training

Jointly with advanced practitioners to facilitate professional forums on a regular basis with wider stakeholder groups e.g. Intermediate Care Teams

To undertake joint appraisals with operational manager for senior professional staff

To provide management supervision for all staff and ensure that own supervision is maintained.

To maintain own CPD Portfolio

Work collaboratively with other managers and clinical leads to develop staff and services to maintain equity across localities

To participate in the annual appraisal

To be responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge and skills at a highly advanced level management and leadership.

To be responsible for maintaining advanced knowledge of relevant health and social care initiatives and legislation, and to implement improvements in practice to meet these across the organisation.

Responsible for participation in contract negotiations

Representing the H&SC Hubs through participation at professional/ regional forums and national conferences.

Quality and Governance

Investigate any concerns relating to poor performance of staff within the H&SC Hubs and offer support to wider locality teams.

To jointly work with operational manager with service planning and delivery to meet quality and performance indicators that are consistent with current best practice.

Contribute to the service planning and implementing within the H&SC Hubs.

To initiate and participate in audit and research relating to H&SC Hubs to implement any changes that are required in consultation with the locality teams/ stakeholders.

Contribute to the development, review and implementation of policies.

To ensure accurate and effective clinical records.

To ensure incident reporting is timely and accurate.

Leadership

To participate to the development of JDs within new roles and in the review and recruitment

To liaise with colleagues / professionals on local and national issues to provide specialist and expert advice to internal and external stakeholders

Working alongside risk management in the analysis of clinical incidents across the service and implementing learning from outcomes.

To work alongside other managers and clinical leads to develop cross professional education on urgent care issues for relevant staff groups within the organisation.

To have extensive knowledge of the wider health care system with the ability to build good relationships with stakeholders inside and outside of the organisation including the private sector.

Actively pursue opportunities for integrated working and service development.

Practice responsibility

To undertake practice intervention across the service within the scope of your role as required in order to support service delivery which will include assessment, treatment planning, intervention and evaluating outcomes.

To ensure joint working with senior staff, training and education of staff and wider teams.

Provide face to face assessment and intervention within the scope of your role and when deemed appropriate to ensure the best outcome for the individual coordinating access to a rapid multi disciplinary response to ensure the needs of an individual are met

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full details.