Band 7 Clinical Team Leader

The post holder will have 24 hour responsibility for the management of the ward ensuring outstanding patient care and experience. The post holder will be visible and supportive, able to undertake and supervise clinical practice with staff to ensure staff wellbeing and a skilled workforce is maintained.

The post holder is accountable for safe, effective, clinical practice within their area.

The post holder must be a positive role model with the motivation and enthusiasm to support and develop a skilled workforce whilst ensuring outstanding care is provided to patients and their relatives.

Applications from colleagues from BME backgrounds are particularly welcomed as they are currently underrepresented in our senior nursing team and we are striving to redress this balance and achieve our WRES objective by supporting career progression and development into these roles.

Extensive support will be given to the post holder to support their career development within this role.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist care, treatment and rehabilitation consistent with best practice and the views of service users and - where appropriate - their carers.

To provide a service which effectively intervenes where disease and disability exist yet seeks always to promote optimal health and independence.

To manage the agreed budgets for supplies, services and manpower and to use these effectively to provide the services which are the responsibility of the clinical team in question.

To manage all allocated budgets in such a manner as to secure and income and expenditure balance at the year end.

To ensure that the care, treatment and rehabilitation provided is both evidence based and of highest standard liaising with and, where necessary, taking advice from relevant professional head.

To be responsible for ensuring that services are delivered within the locally agreed Clinical Governance framework and that all staff are aware of and fulfill their obligations in this regard.

Are you an outstanding clinical nurse leader with patients and staff at the centre of everything you do? We are looking for a compassionate and skilled Band 7 Clinical Team Leader to lead a team on our winter pressure ward.

Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.

Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.