Band 7

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and support a team of specialist podiatrists and administrators, as well as the orthotics team for a fixed term period of 12 months. The role is accountable for working with the General Manager and Clinical Service Manager / Professional Lead and the wider Senior Management Team to ensure the operational delivery of a high quality and efficient service. We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic, motivated, patient-focused, and committed Operational team leader, with a passion for supporting your colleagues to join the Podiatry team covering Crawley, Horsham, and Mid-Sussex sites.

The successful applicant will be extremely organised and can work independently under their own initiative whilst recognising the importance and value of working within the wider specialist team. They must be committed to improving patient care and developing high quality services, focusing on improving patient outcomes.

Applicants must be HCPC registered and be able to demonstrate up to date knowledge of working with podiatric patients, as well as having a broad range of experience working within the NHS.

It is essential that applicants hold a full UK driving license and have a car available for work, as the Podiatry Team Lead will be required to travel between SCFT community sites.

Main duties of the job

To line manage allocated staff to include, recruitment process, sickness and absence monitoring and disciplinary/ performance issues.

To report, investigate and manage incidents, sharing learning from incidents and risk with the team and wider organisation as appropriate.

To manage complaints in accordance with Trust policy and share learning across the team.

To work with multi-disciplinary leads to deliver services that support skill sharing across professions and bandings and develops a competency driven, flexible and responsive workforce.

To ensure effective delegation as per Trust guidelines and to support the implementation of the Calderdale framework and skill sharing initiatives.

To ensure all staff attend statutory and mandatory training.

To work alongside other leads to manage the support staff workloads, integrating skill sharing initiatives.

To support undergraduate occupational podiatry student placements within the relevant areas of work and support the clinical staff supervising the students.

To provide performance information to service managers to support the delivery of KPIs, management of demand and capacity and to inform future workforce, skill mix requirements and service development.

About us

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) deliver a range of health and care services to more than 10,000 adults and children every day: working in care homes, clinics, intermediate care units, people's own homes, GP surgeries, schools, and other community venues across the region.

Our vision is to provideexcellent care at the heart of the communityand achieving the highest level of service is our top priority.

We are proud to support our staff and offer:

• Over 8,400 full time, part time and bank staff members
• July 2018 Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features
• Flexible working patterns offered across all services.
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader

SCFT is an inclusive employer that promotes equality and challenges discrimination and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. Applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, disabled candidates, and LGBT+ candidates are particularly encouraged, to ensure the Trust's workforce reflects the diverse communities it serves.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Attached job description and personal specification for more details regarding this vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Professional Registration

Essential

• Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Podiatry
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Podiatrist
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical specialty
• Management qualification or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role
• Evidence of leadership education / development or a willingness to undertake this

Desirable

• Post Registration qualification or training to masters level or equivalent and experience

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing a team or other relevant management experience
• Experience of supervision provision
• Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
• Experience providing clinical leadership to a team
• Experience of managing a multi-professional team / collaborative working
• Evidence of active participation in audit and clinically relevant research

Desirable

• Experience of delivering quality improvement and productivity
• Experience of managing or administering a budget
• Significant postgraduate experience

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrable expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
• Use of advanced reasoning and assessment skills demonstrated in knowledge and experi-ence shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments, management of conditions and situations
• Demonstrates excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice
• Demonstrates ability to delegate to others
• IT skills, with the ability to use a number of databases, excel, word and internet
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to record actions and decisions accurately
• Demonstrates excellence in communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
• Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
• Demonstrates an ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development
• Demonstrates leadership in practice
• Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice
• Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills
• Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
• Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations
• Demonstrates a commitment of life-long learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
• Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies
• Demonstrate an ability to identify and manage difficult situations and act appropriately to obtain support
• Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
• Demonstrate self-awareness, able to identify personal limitation and shows openness to address them
• Use of advanced clinical reasoning demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions.

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel
• Driving License and access to car

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Crawley or Horsham

West Green Drive

Crawley

RH11 7DH

Employer's website

https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)