Pathway Lead Out of Hospital, Community Services

Pathway Lead Out of Hospital, Urgent Community Services

Main area Pathway Lead – Out of Hospital Urgent Community Services Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ‑NAM8

AUCRT‑01‑26

Employer Stockport NHS Foundation Trust – Stockport – 55,690 – 62,682 pro rata per annum

Stockport Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, experienced Leader who will form part of the Leadership Team within the Directorate of Out of Hospital, Urgent Community Services. The post will be pivotal within the leadership of our Hospital @ Home Service (Virtual Ward) and our newly created Digital Hub. It will work closely with Leads in Urgent Community Response and Advanced Practitioner service.

The Directorate Services form part of the Urgent response within the Neighbourhood with prevention of avoidable admission high priority. This role will be instrumental in the transformation projects currently ongoing within the teams as we stride ahead to support our patients to remain in their usual place of residence.

Pathway lead will have identified services within the Directorate and will:
Ensure the efficient and effective running of the services. Supervise the provision and delivery of the pathway services by working in collaboration with Clinical Leads, Team Lead and team members. Develop and implement operational management systems and process pathways specific for the individual services patients, in collaboration with services within and external to the Organisation. Work alongside the Team Lead and/or Clinical Leads offering critical challenge within current practice, thus ensuring that all care delivered is evidence based, effective and efficient.

Ensure that all care provided by the team members is evaluated and reviewed and efficiency maximised. Adopt a LEAN methodology and philosophy. Lead with key stakeholders on the identification, development and evaluation of operational objectives and create the appropriate SOP’s, protocols, and strategies to maintain efficiency and effectiveness.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

• Between 27–33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union – for local financial advice

Operational and clinical leadership responsibilities

Ability to assess an acutely ill patient, or make judgement on clinical caseload management

Financial and governance responsibilities, incident reporting, complaints, patient experience

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require…