Clinical Team Leader
Posted 2 hours 58 minutes ago by NHS
£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
England, United Kingdom
Job Description
Clinical Team Leader The closing date is 02 April 2026
To act as a senior clinical professional within the UCR service, as an integrated health and social care team providing an urgent rapid response to Warrington residents, experiencing a health crisis. The aim is to support people to remain at home rather than be admitted to hospital. Liaising with patients the team and colleagues across the wider health and social care environment including NWAS the postholder will promote, maintain and enhance effective multidisciplinary patient care.
To act as an independent autonomous practitioner to provide specialist treatment and advice to patients and staff which will contribute to the assessment, diagnosis, care and treatment of patients at home preventing unnecessary hospital admission. All referrals will triaged immediately and responded to within two hours, with referrals from NWAS prioritised.
Possess and demonstrate extended clinical skills in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide range of patient care needs. Professional autonomy and clinical judgement will be exercised in managing, referring and signposting patients onto wider community services and assets.
Be responsible for the clinical management of the UCR Team, ensuring effective and efficient delivery of a high quality timely service to meet commissioner requirements.
Plan capacity and demand to deliver a safe service and contribute to admission avoidance and a timely discharge home.
Bridgewater CommunityHealthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust plan to integrate and form a new organisation on the 1st April 2026. As such, if your start date is on or after 1st April 2026, you will be employed by the newly formed organisation. Should you join Bridgewater prior to this date, your employment will automatically transfer into the new organisation. We are confident that this transition will provide new opportunities and a continued commitment to excellence in patient care.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the nursing teams practice is evidence based through undertaking audit and critically appraising literature to achieve a high standard of care.
To actively contribute to multidisciplinary meetings.
To establish and maintain effective communication with individual groups and communities in complex and potentially challenging situations.
To involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of care.
To competently undertake as required a range of clinical skills related to the post.
To maintain accurate records in accordance with NMC and Care Quality Commission standards.
To identify skills and knowledge to address self and individuals training needs by undertaking PDR.
To demonstrate the ability to work without direct supervision and to solve problems in a collaborative and inclusive manner.
Professional Responsibilities Lead audit activity as set out in the service quality assurance framework to ensure high quality care is maintained and where required, learning is embedded.
To offer advice and support to others as appropriate, acting as a positive role model, for all staff.
Where required and in line with Trust policies, address shortfalls in performance, escalating concerns to the service manager.
To lead and participate in protected learning time and attend staff meetings as requested.
To maintain competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
To contribute to own CPD in a positive manner, evaluating one's own practice and participating in the appraisal process. Attend relevant training courses and mandatory training.
To cascade policy documents within the team ensuring their implementation and understanding.
To positively represent and promote the Intermediate Care Service.
To lead and engage as required in specific projects, meetings and work arising from the responsibilities of the team manager in the wider delivery of service provision.
Lead the team's professional development and participate in individual Performance Development System.
About us Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.
At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.
They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.
After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them.
Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.
To act as a senior clinical professional within the UCR service, as an integrated health and social care team providing an urgent rapid response to Warrington residents, experiencing a health crisis. The aim is to support people to remain at home rather than be admitted to hospital. Liaising with patients the team and colleagues across the wider health and social care environment including NWAS the postholder will promote, maintain and enhance effective multidisciplinary patient care.
To act as an independent autonomous practitioner to provide specialist treatment and advice to patients and staff which will contribute to the assessment, diagnosis, care and treatment of patients at home preventing unnecessary hospital admission. All referrals will triaged immediately and responded to within two hours, with referrals from NWAS prioritised.
Possess and demonstrate extended clinical skills in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide range of patient care needs. Professional autonomy and clinical judgement will be exercised in managing, referring and signposting patients onto wider community services and assets.
Be responsible for the clinical management of the UCR Team, ensuring effective and efficient delivery of a high quality timely service to meet commissioner requirements.
Plan capacity and demand to deliver a safe service and contribute to admission avoidance and a timely discharge home.
Bridgewater CommunityHealthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust plan to integrate and form a new organisation on the 1st April 2026. As such, if your start date is on or after 1st April 2026, you will be employed by the newly formed organisation. Should you join Bridgewater prior to this date, your employment will automatically transfer into the new organisation. We are confident that this transition will provide new opportunities and a continued commitment to excellence in patient care.
Main duties of the job
- Leadership & Management
- To work collaboratively with UCR Service and Stakeholders to ensure patients needs are met
- To provide leadership and support by promoting professional development and encouraging clinical supervision
- Ensure that capacity is proactively managed to meet the demands of the services
- To promote good team working and good working relations amongst staff
- To ensure timely accurate information is provided on annual leave, expenses and study leave
- To monitor and report to line manager all HR, safeguarding and health and safety issues discussing and taking action as appropriate
- To actively manage sickness and absence of staff accessing support from their linemanager as applicable
- To ensure effective use of physical and financial resources including the ordering of supplies and equipment
- To be responsible for the equitable distribution of rotas and prioritisation of workload
- To monitor, report, audit and evaluate that staff maintain appropriate and accurate patient records
- To oversee the collection of all monitoring data and contribute to performance management
- To lead on the clinical aspect of complaints, taking action where appropriate to ensure learning as a result of patient/service user feedback
- Investigate incidents relating to nursing practice, ensuring that learning takes place across the service
- To assist their line manager to recruit, motivate, develop support and induct staff with policy and service priorities
- Responsible for own time management and that of the nursing team
- Flexibility to participate in rota cover to meet the service needs
- To manage time to ensure a split of 80% leadership/management and 20% clinical duties to ensure maintenance of clinical skills
To ensure the nursing teams practice is evidence based through undertaking audit and critically appraising literature to achieve a high standard of care.
To actively contribute to multidisciplinary meetings.
To establish and maintain effective communication with individual groups and communities in complex and potentially challenging situations.
To involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of care.
To competently undertake as required a range of clinical skills related to the post.
To maintain accurate records in accordance with NMC and Care Quality Commission standards.
To identify skills and knowledge to address self and individuals training needs by undertaking PDR.
To demonstrate the ability to work without direct supervision and to solve problems in a collaborative and inclusive manner.
Professional Responsibilities Lead audit activity as set out in the service quality assurance framework to ensure high quality care is maintained and where required, learning is embedded.
To offer advice and support to others as appropriate, acting as a positive role model, for all staff.
Where required and in line with Trust policies, address shortfalls in performance, escalating concerns to the service manager.
To lead and participate in protected learning time and attend staff meetings as requested.
To maintain competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
To contribute to own CPD in a positive manner, evaluating one's own practice and participating in the appraisal process. Attend relevant training courses and mandatory training.
To cascade policy documents within the team ensuring their implementation and understanding.
To positively represent and promote the Intermediate Care Service.
To lead and engage as required in specific projects, meetings and work arising from the responsibilities of the team manager in the wider delivery of service provision.
Lead the team's professional development and participate in individual Performance Development System.
About us Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.
At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.
They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.
After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them.
Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.
- P- Person-centred - We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide.
- E- Empowered - We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.
- O- Open and Honest - We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.
- P- Professional - We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.
- L- Locally Lead - We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.
- E- Efficient - We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.
- Ability to Problem solve
- Effective time management and prioritisation
- Personal resilience
- Commitment
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to multi-task
- The ability to travel independently across the Trust
- The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
- Experience of working in a nursing environment to team leader level
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary environment
- Experience of managing staff
- Relevant and current experience in Urgent care and/or primary care with extensive clinical skills and knowledge
- Experience of working in an emergency/first contact role and/or crisis management
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Demonstrable community experience
- Multi-agency working
- Broad range of extended clinical skills
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues relating to specialist knowledge
- Advanced Clinical skills/specialist knowledge.
- Able to work as an autonomous practitioner
- Advanced clinical judgement
- Effective communication
- Ability to Self-manage
- Legal and ethical issues
- Cultural and diversity issues
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues across the health & social setting
- Ability to teach, assess & mentor staff, pre & post reg students
- Proven leadership skills
- Recognised management qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Tissue viability qualification
- Chronic disease management qualification
- Understanding of HR processes
- Basic budget awareness
- If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.
- First Level Registered nurse or allied health professional
- Current registration . click apply for full job details