Job Description:

Job information Advanced Clinical Lead from the Company CWP, this latest Advanced Clinical Lead job vacancy is located in the city Macclesfield located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate Master Degree . Job Vacancies in this Advanced field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Main area Advanced Clinical Lead

Grade

Band 7

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

373-SMH2015

Site Silk Ward

Town

Macclesfield

Salary

£43,742 - £50,056 per annum (pro rata)

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

04/06/2024 23:59

Job overview

**We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**

The relocation package is for anyone who is joining CWP in a clinical role at Band 5 or above, who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership.

To be eligible for the relocation payment, you must live more than 40 miles from the base/location of the post you are applying for and you would need to relocate to within 15 miles of the new base.

If this applies to you, please state this on your application so we can discuss this with you if you are invited to interview.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well-established inpatient specialist dementia assessment team on Silk Ward, in a newly created role as an Advanced Clinical Lead.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about driving high standards of care, is compassionate and committed to working within dementia care, and exhibits excellent leadership skills to support quality improvement initiatives and staff development.

Main duties of the job

Quality improvement - demonstrate highly effective communication skills and problem-solving abilities, implement continuous quality improvement initiatives with current best practice for dementia care, identifying learning themes and responding to this, attendance at Trust wide meetings and local Dementia Steering Group, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of clinical standards.

Clinical expertise - working autonomously within a multi-disciplinary framework and act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team, supporting with complex cases with specialist assessment and planning of care, liaising with internal and external professionals and working collaboratively, and ensuring high standards of patient care within trust guidelines and policies.

Staff development - delivery of training and supporting with sourcing further training/education opportunities, facilitating clinical supervision, providing a coaching and mentoring role to enhance the teams skills and knowledge, motivating and inspiring the team to drive high standards of patient care and creating a productive work environment.

Working for our organisation

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs' Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. A ‘Guide to completing your application form' can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.

The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential' criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES' to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?'

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver' award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team on 01244 393100.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A relevant Social Work, Nursing or Allied Health Professional (e.g. Occupational Therapy) degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Current registration with a nationally recognised professional body relevant to the professional qualification held e.g. GSCC for Social workers, HPC for Occupational Therapists etc
• Minimum 5 years post registration experience

Desirable criteria

• Masters level qualification or equivalent short courses and / or experience
• Teaching qualification or significant experience

Knowledge & Expertise

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills: working with staff, working with patients and carers, working with general practice, presentations, written reports, understanding and ability to interpret, research and facilitate staff to implement evidence-based practice
• Proven ability to challenge current practices and freedom to make change in light of evidence-based recommendations
• Knowledge, understanding and the ability to interpret and implement local and national policy direction relevant to practice
• Proven experience of clinical audit, skill and knowledge required to facilitate staff to undertake clinical audit
• Knowledge and experience of moving staff through the change management process
• Empowering staff to manage and support change
• Demonstrable effective clinical leadership with knowledge, understanding and application of leadership theories
• Relevant clinical expertise to support and facilitate clinical development and innovation
• Evidence of sound information technology skills

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in the development of professional roles
• Successfully managed projects that demonstrate ability to communicate and implement change
• Demonstrable and proven understanding and experience of the clinical and corporate governance agenda
• Knowledge and experience of facilitation of reflective practice for staff and personal reflective practice
• Demonstrable ability and experience in motivating and empowering others to change roles and in leading practice development

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Kirsty Ainsworth

Job title

Ward Manager

Email address

kirsty.ainsworth@nhs.net

Telephone number

01625 712083

Keywords : Macclesfield jobs

Closed Date : 2025-04-13