We are recruiting for a ENCT & Falls Lead who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Enhanced Care Team Manager post is a vital and valued role within the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality, compassionate patient care and the operational management of the Enhanced Care Team (ENCT).

You will be responsible for the Leadership and management of the Enhanced Care Team.

The post holder will be based at the Lister Hospital but may be required to work across site on occasion.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

TheEnhanced Care Team Manager will be directly responsible for the management and co-ordination of the Enhanced Care Team and administrative staff within the service and deputise for the Lead nurse for workforce when required.

As a Falls Lead, the post holder is responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students responsible for implementing a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence-based care.

To provide specialist clinical expertise to enable staff to implement the Trusts falls prevention policy in all clinical areas.

To monitor falls incidents and review monthly audits to measure for quality assurance against the Trusts falls prevention policy and to identify areas for continuous improvement.

To complete a monthly Falls Improvement report which can be shared with staff in all clinical areas and be able to formally appraise the harm free care panel or various patient safety committees of performance concerns and lead on the formation of action plans.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

• Registered Nurse or AHP educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of professional development and commitment to life long learning.
• Ability to produce personal professional portfolio.
• Teaching qualification.

Desirable

• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake Master's degree

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience of providing leadership and change management
• The ability to work to deadlines & achieve objectives with minimal direction
• Experience in working with a range of individuals & organisations, ideally in a healthcare setting
• Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
• Accept personal accountability for own practice.
• Understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Understand of patient pathways its complexities and how to support the patient through this

Desirable

• Recent practice at similar level
• Budget management
• Responsibility for management of staff

Skills

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due workload and colleagues' needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload effective time-management
• Sound organisational skills and Effective interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead developments in practice
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working
• Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills
• Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly
• Evidence of team management skills
• Utilisation of teaching skills
• Ability to direct and work within a team
• Strong leadership skills

Knowledge

Essential

• Good knowledge of Dementia and Delirium and Mental health conditions/ treatments
• Good understanding of staffing issues
• Understanding of skill mix and workload patterns
• Awareness of health and safety legislation
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance
• Understanding of national policy and future impact on acute organisations
• Have an understanding of the NHS improvement and performance management agenda

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

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361-6543944-A