Team Leader

AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY HAS ARISEN FOR A TEAM LEADER TO WORK WITHIN THE COMMUNITY BEDS TEAM

The team provide a community bed-based rehabilitation service across three community care home settings in the Nottingham City locality, often patients are admitted to the community beds directly from hospital, but some are admitted directly from their own homes after experiencing a crisis that does not require acute secondary care. The team are based within the care homes and complete assessments, rehabilitation, and discharge planning in a timely manner to support patients back into the community.

The successful applicant will, alongside the team manager, have the day-to-day operational responsibility to ensure the delivery of an efficient and effective community beds service in line with local, national and professional agendas and clinical governance.

The applicant will work closely with the Team Manager and Clinical Lead to create a strong leadership team, being a visible and encouraging leader to a large team of multidisciplinary professionals, aspects of the role include but are not limited to; rota responsibilities, managing sickness and absences in line with local policy, ensuring compliance is up to date in regarding to staff training and developing, having an overview of staff appraisals, data collation and audit responsibilities.

This post requires the candidate to work between the hours of 8pm-4pm Monday to Friday, The post holder will have day to day responsibility for the operational management of the community beds team under the supervision of the Team Manager, alongside this the post holder will be responsible for ensuring the operational effectiveness and adherence to quality standards and key performance indicators for all external contracts/ internal service level agreements as well as marketing and ongoing development of the service. The post holder will also lead on partnership communication and initiatives with internal and external stakeholders and other third party organisations.

The successful team leader will play a key part in supporting a large multidisciplinary disciplinary team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, assistance practitioners and rehab support workers. The teams plays a pivotal role in supporting local acute trusts in the discharge of patients who require a period of rehabilitation and/or assessment, this can come with some operational pressure, the team leader is required to be able to maintain a busy schedule, prioritise workloads and provide support to the team as required.

The candidate will be required to have excellent communications skills, written and verbal, responsibilities will including data collection and report generating, taking part and lead on meeting which will include. communicating with internal and external agency.

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives.

CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.