Deputy Department Manager / Clinical Sister

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support the management of clinical and operational processes within the Fracture Clinic, liaising with members of the Multidisciplinary Teams of all groups involved e.g., Trauma and Orthopaedics (adult and Paediactrics), Emergency Department. Identifying areas of service improvement and implementing improvements with the team using UHCWi methodology. Leading the service as an autonomous practitioner, providing a high standard of care to the patient group
• Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients in accordance with own qualification, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented, and evaluated/audited. Ensuring patient information is up to date and acting as patient advocate where necessary.
• Organisation of and participation in cross-departmental/organisational activities including HR, sickness management, resourcing, and bleep-holder responsibilities as appropriate.
• Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical clinical skills, to ensure optimum patient management including, in accordance with own registration; complex patient monitoring, wound management, medicines management, safeguarding procedures and equipment maintenance - acting as a resource and role model for junior staff.
• Develop and educate staff and students, participating in supervision, mentorship and appraisal as required. Monitoring mandatory training compliance of self and others to ensure it is completed in a timely manner.
• Manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring varying levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need.
• Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g., imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards. Supporting the development of local risk assessments as necessary.
• Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control at all times. Using audit tools to monitor this.
• To be responsible for the ordering and maintenance of stock levels within the Fracture Clinic, liaising with materials management and participating in product evaluation and research. Ensure materials are cost effective and also appropriate for the treatments provided.
• To support the management of staffing roster, using the e-roster system. Ensuring safe, effective skill mix and staffing levels to support clinics. Ensuring the staffing levels are safe and also cost effective.
• Utilise and ensure self and others utilise information and IT systems effectively to ensure patient information and outcomes are recorded accurately and timely. Ensuring all actions and patient care is documented accurately and legibly as per Trust policy. Keeping up to date and acting as point of contact for developments in IT systems - cascading information to staff where necessary.
• Support and carry out local, Trust wide and national audits in a timely manner, analysing results and and formulating action plans with the management team to maintain and improving standards to meet KPI's etc

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Person specification

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Experience

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Knowledge

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Skills

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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW 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 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.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

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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.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 416.4KB)
• Welcoming Candidates with Disability (PDF, 98.9KB)
• Candidate Information (PDF, 291.8KB)