Clinical Team Leader | Single Point of Contact
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the SPC team within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Team Leader.
The Single Point of Contact is a busy and exciting service within the Trust. We are an established, innovative team of nurses and call handlers responsible for facilitating discharges into community settings. We signpost patients and health professionals to the appropriate setting utilising our knowledge base of pathways working with the many services across north Merseyside.
We are looking for enthusiastic and committed health care professionals with flexibility in working hours.
The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service in the defined area. The post holder will be required to provide team leadership and management to a team.
The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality care to patients/clients. and to ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sheila Williams Job title: Clinical Senior Nurse Email address: sheila.williams@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07870700887