Clinical Lead

Are you a nurse clinical lead with a keen interest in community care? Would you like to be part of the team working in partnership with colleagues and key stakeholders to lead the development of the first newly forming Community Response Hub within the Rural Alliance. We are looking to recruit a Clinical Lead - Community Nurse, working full time 37.5 hours per week (Weekends included and working day between 8am and 5pm included) to join our Community Response Hub.

The post holder will be a clinical resource, providing a visible clinical profile. You will have advisory skills, leadership and clinical oversight of the clinical caseload. You will work collaboratively with the wider health and social care team to meet the needs of patients, ensuring people receive the right care at the right time and in the right place. Reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, with mínimal avoidable delays, and an emphasis on people achieving independence whilst improving the quality of their care.

You will be committed to working with our local populations in order to facilitate and support the success of the community response hub in facilitating peoples discharge home at the earliest opportunity. The successful applicant will have a proven ability to clinically lead. Ideally you will have experience in implementing and sustain changes and ability to work collaboratively and bring people together.
- To provide direction within the caseload in consideration of the impact

of current health and social care agendas and local initiatives
- To focus on the delivery of person centred care
- To provide effective, evidence-based care to a defined population

through case load management and monitoring of care standards
- Provide leadership including clinical supervision to team members and provide support to the Team managerial lead.

**We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**

The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Bronze’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

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Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification)andvalues.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If your disability meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please also inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

All new clinical support staff will be required to have completed or working towards the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2 day training to be completed within 6 months of start date).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

CWP encourages and supports all staff to become vaccinated against COVID-19.