The purpose of this post is to provide advanced, specialist, clinical leadership to the countywide cardiac service, prioritising quality and safety of care provision, minimizing incidents and risk and ensuring a robust and resilient management structure is maintained.

To work alongside the operations Manager to ensure service spec, quality standards and KPI's are achieved by the service.

Leading on transformation and projects to optimise service efficiencies and productivity, analysing data and working with the performance team and clinical effectiveness teams.

Lead on clinical governance for the service with better integration of cardiac rehabilitation and the heart failure service in alignment with the five-year plan.

Act as a resource for the professional and clinical development of CPFT staff within this specialist service and across other CPFT services.

To represent CPFT at the regional and local cardiac networks, advocating for patients managed in the community with complex cardiac conditions.

Main duties of the job

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this.

To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.

To comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these.

To comply at all times with the Trust's Information Governance related policies. Staffs are required to respect the confidentiality of information about staff, patients and Trust business and in particular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiable information in line with the Data Protection Act. All staff are responsible for ensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, and fit for the purposes for which it is intended.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• . To hold a clinical caseload, with approximately a 70:30 split of time clinical patient facing: management
• Work collaboratively with the Cardiac Service Operational Manager to:
• Ensure all staff appropriately manage and support individuals within our service, utilising knowledge, and advanced skills to assess, plan, implement and initiate changes where required.
• Provide expert clinical advice to the team to support complex case management, clinical decisions, and staff reasoning.
• . Work within the model of the Older Persons and Adult Community Directorate, providing leadership and management on the matters relating to admission avoidance, early supported discharge, planned care and transfer of care in conjunction with other services.
• . Ensure own leadership style facilitates effective communication, collaboration and motivation of staff and partners to achieve effective function of the Cardiac service model to respond to National Policies and Clinical Guidance.
• Work collaboratively with neighbourhood teams, professional leads and GP practices to support professional and practice developments.
• Work collaboratively with neighbourhood teams, professional leads and GP practices to support professional and practice developments.
• Be proactive in developing own professional practice, demonstrating evidence of autonomy, judgement and decision-making skills.
• Lead the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines
• Work alongside the operational manager to represent the service in relevant forums
• Ensure the provision of high quality, responsive services with the need of the patient at the centre of service delivery

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Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse or Allied Health Professional with cardiac interest
• To hold a non-medical prescribing qualification V300
• Experience within heart failure acute and/or community
• Experience within cardiac rehabilitation
• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience within NHS or social care or private sector
• Masters' degree qualification, or working towards a Masters' degree
• Able to demonstrate ongoing personal development

Desirable

• Management/Leadership qualification
• Experience in organisational development and change management
• Cardiac experience at manager/senior level
• Post grad qualification

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in a care setting
• Successful delivery of service improvement
• Business and/or service planning experience
• Experience of multidisciplinary and partnership working

Desirable

• Project management experience

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Service improvement skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good working relationships with all levels of people
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to motivate others and use influencing and negotiating skills
• Ability to use and understand performance data
• Analytical and judgmental skills
• Ability to deal with conflict and have difficult conversations at Team/Directorate and System level
• Ability to identify and facilitate areas for collaborative working
• Excellent IT skills
• Ability to prioritise and respond flexibly to frequent changing demands
• Demonstrate experience of how to effect cultural and behavioural change

Knowledge & understanding

Essential

• Shows respect for others' feelings, views, and circumstances
• In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms other down
• Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so
• Listens to personal comments without becoming defensive
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
• Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
• Seeks and uses professional support appropriately

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Able to hybrid work.
• Able to travel across the county independently, sometimes at short notice.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Huntingdon

Kingfisher House,

Huntingdon

PE29 6FN

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