Clinical Lead (Community)

Are you passionate about helping avoid unnecessary hospital admissions by caring for and treating our patients in their own homes or local community settings?
Above all, are you someone who will provide strong clinical leadership and future direction for our Community Urgent Care services, working together to deliver excellent patient care and good team dynamics.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust's (OHFT) Community Health Services, Dentistry & Primary Care Directorate comprises several services which provide same day, acute and urgent care to patients, close to, or where possible, in their own home as a safe alternative to secondary care.
Our services operate 7 days a week, 8am till 8pm and include Same Day Emergency Care Units, Urgent Community Response (UCR), Hospital at Home visiting teams (in conjunction with secondary care), and Specialist Falls Services -all supported through a clinical co-ordination centre -Single Point of Access (SPA)
This position will require you to adopt a lead clinical role in the provision of Community Urgent Care Services within Oxfordshire, ensuring appropriate clinical governance . arrangements.
We provide clinical and professional leadership and direction, education learning and development for clinical staff in maintaining clinical and non-clinical standards of care and in implementing service improvements. This includes ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded., This role will:
Provide clinical leadership for clinicians delivering services across the Community Directorate
Respond to clinical staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences and concerns about clinical standards.
Provide clinical leadership and direction for clinical staff in maintaining clinical and non-clinical standards of care and in implementing service improvements. This includes ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded., Act as a role model for clinical staff demonstrating and promoting the organisation's core values, beliefs and professional behaviours including respect, non-discrimination, empowerment, and inclusion.
Provide clinical leadership and direction.
Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with other senior colleagues to ensure the achievement of Pathway objectives.
Develop and promote innovation and service improvement through local and national initiatives.
Support influence the planning and development of Community Services strategies.
Establish effective relationships with other service providers in the public, voluntary and private sectors to enable effective joint working with the Trust.
Promote awareness of clinical and non-clinical risk amongst all staff.
Take responsibility for a level of involvement in clinical activity as appropriate to the post involving critical analysis and advice concerning highly complex situations
This role will be part of the relevant service management team on call rota and may involve working unsocial hours during evenings and at weekends as well as working in hours as service need dictates to attend Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust meetings as required.
+ All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
+ Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

NHS AfC: Band 8a
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.