Job summary
The NHS Continuing Healthcare team are looking for Clinical Team Leads, band 7 to join our team. We have a number of hours available and would be happy to discuss hours with the successful candidates. The Clinical Team Lead is a senior leadership role in the NHS CHC team, you will act in a specialist role, with subject matter expertise in the field of NHS Continuing Healthcare, providing advice to a wide range of stakeholders on NHS CHC policy and related issues. You will promote clinical excellence, support staff development, and ensure compliance with statutory, governance, and quality standards. taking responsibility for delivery of the clinical functions of part of the NHS CHC service across Norfolk and Suffolk. You will be taking on this role at a time when two large teams are merging, and supporting with implementation of a new operational mode of NHS CHC delivery, and you will be critical to this work.

We have a number of Clinical Leads who manage specific functions within the CHC team. These roles are rotational when required.

This is an exciting time to take the opportunity to step up to a senior role.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for managing a team of staff within the NHS CHC team including completion of supervision, personal development plans and reviews, sickness absence reviews and managing performance.
• To review NHS CHC assessments (including retrospective assessments) and reviews completed by clinical staff, focussing on providing feedback for quality improvement purposes and making decisions on eligibility for funding on behalf of the ICB.
• To work with the Local Authority adult social care team to resolve any disputes in line with the ICB and Local Authority Joint Working Policy.
• Responsible for ensuring individuals have a care and support plan that is person-centred and outcome-focussed where they have been deemed eligible for NHS funding, supporting the team in ensuring that the agreed package of care and support/personal health budget meets the individuals assessed needs and providing sign off for care packages and budgets in line with agreed limits.
• To conduct the local resolution process where eligibility decisions have been challenged.
• To support with and be involved in the process of making applications to the Court of Protection or Responsible Body for authorisation of Deprivation of Liberty, including consideration of the necessity and proportionality of proposed deprivations.
• To provide high quality professional advice, guidance and expertise to members of the NHS CHC team and wider stakeholders.

About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9billion to commission safe, highquality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.

We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.

Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joinedup care.

Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an olderthanaverage population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.

Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joinedup, patientcentred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to highquality services.

We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.

Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person Specification

Other

• An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
• Used to working in a busy environment
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Professional calm and efficient manner
• Enthusiasm for the role.
• Confident.
• Ability to work as a team member and independently.
• Car driver must hold a current driving licence.
• Willingness to work in a flexible manner including travel on a day to day basis locally, regionally and on occasion nationally.
• Effective organiser
• Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• May be required to travel to ICB Offices and other venues within the ICB area as required

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult, Mental Health or Learning Disability) with active NMC Registration.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Academic or professional qualification at degree level or equivalent experience.
• Management qualification.

Desirable

• Qualified Professional Nurse
• Advocate (PNA)

Experience

• Experience working at a band 6 level or above, including supervising and delegating of work and supporting others to improve performance, learn and develop.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of current key policies and priorities within the NHS and Social Care including current reforms.

Analytical

• Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate
• Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis
• Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a number of courses of action.

Communication

• Experience of writing policies, procedures and guidance.
• Experience of developing and delivering training packages.
• Experience formally line managing clinical staff.
• Experience carrying out appraisals/personal development plans and reviews.
• Experience in being involved in recruitment/retention processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including providing and receiving complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to chair meetings and present to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• High level planning and organisational skills, utilising a flexible and adaptable approach to prioritising own and others workload to meet deadlines.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Effective interpersonal and negotiation skills enabling effective communication with patients, professionals, colleagues, partner agencies, providers and carers.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Able to work effectively in a team with a high degree of self and political awareness.
• Able to monitor and evaluate plans and implement changes where necessary.
• Able to concentrate for long periods of time, analysing and checking complex information.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden and/or competing demands
• Proficient in the use of IT systems and typing.

Knowledge

• A good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, safeguarding adults guidance and their application.
• High level of knowledge of National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care and its implementation.

Management

• Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support
• Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.