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Job Overview
Clinical Lead in Stroke Rehabilitation, West of England Intergrated Stroke Delivery Network (ISDN)
Secondment at NHS England SW region, hosted by North Bristol Trust.
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with extensive experience in stroke rehabilitation who is passionate about improving stroke patients care, outcomes and experience in the SW region.
This role is a 0.5 WTE on a secondment basis at NHS England South West region, hosted by North Bristol Trust for an initial 12-month period with the possibility of extension for a further 12 months by mutual agreement. The arrangement would be on a sessional basis with the employing organisation or individual comparable arrangement. This is one of the two vacancies for the West of England ISDN within the NHS England SW Region and the other vacancy for Peninsula ISDN, hosted by University hospital of Plymouth NHS Foundation under similar arrangements.
Job Summary
The successful candidate for the West of England ISDN will work closely with their counterpart at Peninsula ISDN and the clinical network team at NHS England, to support service transformation, focused on community stroke rehabilitation, provide expert leadership, clinical knowledge and advice to the management team and wider stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will need an in-depth understanding of the specialist area and will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting the implementation and sustained delivery of the Integrated Community Stroke Service (ICSS) model across the region with the aim to create alignment around programmes of transformational work through engagement with providers, commissioners and patients, that will improve care for stroke patients in West of England.
The key aspects of this role will be in partnership with the LTCs CNMs and specifically the regional stroke team to do the following;
- Provide professional clinical leaderhisp to the ISDN and the SW Stroke programme.
- Bring the expert rehabilitation and community experience and knowledge base.
- Ensure that whole pathway improvements and transformation are being considered and provide the expert input and scrutiny for all rehabilitation areas of the pathway.
- Provide clinical advice to constituent organisations (commissioners and providers).
- Communicate the ISDN strategy and objectives to focus on quality and outcomes from national through to local level
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
An experienced practitioner in Stroke Rehabilitation, you must be able to demonstrate the following:
- Educated to Master level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience.
- Professional registration with nursing or AHP body.
- Recognised project management qualification is desirable.
- Knowledge of stroke rehabilitation pathways.
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
- Experience of working in a project focused environment.
- Previously worked in senior role within the stroke community in the NHS.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills.
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters. Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills are desirable.
- Skills for manipulating information.
- Strong organisational and time management skills and evidence of working in a systematic manner.
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software, including Excel, Word and Access.
- Ability to work without supervision. Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others’ workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
Please see the attached Job Description for further details on the role, responsibilities and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience.
- Professional registration with nursing or AHP body
Desirable criteria
- Recognised project management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of stroke rehabilitation pathways.
- Previously worked in senior role within the stroke community in the NHS.
- Experience of working in a project focused environment
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of working in formal clinical networks within the NHS
- The ability to build excellent collaborative networks
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent time management and skills with the ability to be re-prioritise.
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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
