Job Description
Main area Acute Medicine Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
Employer Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site SWB NHS trust Town Birmingham Salary £43,742 - £50,056 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/06/2024 23:59
Clinical Shift Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
We are seeking a team of experienced, enthusiastic, driven senior nurses with excellent clinical and communication skills to join Acute Medicine (AMU and Short stay) at SWBH in preparation for a new way of working at MMUH. This is an acute area currently based across our 2 existing sites, which aims to provide specialized acute service to treat those with varying medical conditions. It includes enhanced care beds, short stay unit and frailty pathway.
We are moving into our new acute hospital The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in October 2024 the new acute hospital in Grove Lane, Smethwick.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be a clinical team leader with a helicopter view of the unit. (108 beds) They will be working closely with the band 6 team, whilst providing standardized coordination of the unit. They will be required to focus, facilitate and influence the team to provide a high standard of quality safe care, whilst maintaining efficient and effective flow through the organization.
It will be that of an extended role with clinical skills and ability to support the ward manager of the unit in respect of policing standards, communicating expectations and exemplary role modelling.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organ isation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details regarding this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Experience
- Demonstrable post registration experience, to include clinical band 6 level.
- Experience of a co-coordinating in an Acute Medicine setting.
- Evidence of professional development in the last 12 months
- Knowledge and experience of resource management.
Qualifications
- RN with NMC registration
- Teaching / assessing qualification
- Degree level qualification health related subject or working towards
- Level 1 Acute Medicine Training or willing to undertake
- ALS Provider
- Health Assessment
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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