Band 7 Team Leader post in the Hospital at Home Service at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, covering the Hospital at Home, Remote Monitoring and Home Health Monitoring pathways. The core work is triaging complex referrals, advanced patient assessment and coordinating caseloads against capacity and staffing. The role combines clinical bases and patients' homes across a seven-day service, with evenings and weekends, and line management of a staff group. Applicants must be a Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic with significant post-registration experience.
What the job involves
- Triage complex referrals and hold clinician-to-clinician discussions to support safe admission, movement and discharge
- Undertake and support advanced, holistic patient assessment, identifying deterioration and formulating management plans
- Coordinate the Hospital at Home, Remote Monitoring and Home Health Monitoring caseloads against acuity, capacity, staffing and competing priorities
- Provide clear clinical and operational direction to staff and **escalate** risks or concerns appropriately
- Take part in multidisciplinary meetings, case discussions and virtual or face-to-face ward rounds
- Provide visible day-to-day leadership and line management to an identified group of staff
- Support supervision, appraisal, wellbeing, competency assessment, performance management and professional development
- Lead or contribute to clinical audit, quality improvement, service evaluation, incident learning and clinical governance
- Manage competing demands, interruptions and time-critical clinical or operational decisions
- Respond to emotionally demanding situations, including clinical deterioration, palliative care and end-of-life care
What’s required
Registration & licences
- NMC registration as a Registered Nurse, or HCPC registration as a Paramedic
Experience
- Significant post-registration clinical experience in community, urgent, primary or acute care
- Clinical leadership and management experience, including supporting staff and coordinating services
Skills & knowledge
- Strong clinical assessment and decision-making, recognising deterioration and managing complex patients
- Escalating concerns appropriately
- Excellent communication and multidisciplinary working, including with patients, carers, GPs and Integrated Neighbourhood Teams
Checks & eligibility
- Full valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle with business insurance, unless a reasonable adjustment applies
Nice to have
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber, or willingness to undertake the qualification where appropriate
- Experience of audit, quality improvement or service development, ideally in community, urgent care or Hospital at Home or virtual care
- Experience of a Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward, urgent community response or similar integrated care service
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
