Team Leader

This post is within the Community Therapy group supporting the Matrons in providing dynamic, professional and operational leadership within the designated service structure within the Community, Frailty and Therapy Group. The postholder will be responsible for managing and monitoring core functions within a range of services. They will actively support the Service and Matrons in providing information and performing delegated management tasks. They are key to maintaining links between clinicians and primary care and social care partners. They will also maintain clinical function within the teams in managing services in the community, the postholder will be expected to operate autonomously to deal with the day-to-day management issues and interpreting clinical policies and procedures on a day to day basis to support the clinical staff. This will include escalation to the Matron/Deputy Nurse Director where appropriate.
The post holder will be accessible and have a visible presence, advising and supporting their teams, patients and their families/ carers to ensure effective patient care across the whole patient pathway. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that all staff are fully competent and possess the appropriate clinical skills to deliver a high standard of care to our patients and will be accountable for the direct delivery of the clinical service by themselves and their team as the first line manager.
The post holder will be supporting the Matron of Community Integrated urgent care portfolio where they will be accountable for their practice either clinically and/or line managing teams to maintain efficiency and patient safety. Main duties involve absence monitoring, roster, PADR, performance management, patient complaints management, audits, QI projects, recruitment process, supporting staff with training including to operate safely through provision of equipment etc.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
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