Professional Clinical Lead

This exciting opportunity has arisen following the retirement of an amazing and highly respected leader who has made a lasting contribution to our organisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to build on strong foundations while bringing your own ideas and ambition to the role. At its heart, this role is about people, patients, professional excellence, developing careers and talent, both within and beyond our organisation, championing research and innovation and supporting the highest professional standards., This is a unique opportunity for an experienced and highly credible registered nurse to influence clinical practice at the highest level, working closely with the Director of Quality and People, operational leaders and system partners.

You will be a recognised clinical expert, rooted in clinical practice and will act as a role model demonstrating the highest degree of personal professional autonomy and showing commitment to development and lifelong learning. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that patients receive safe, effective and compassionate care while helping to shape the future workforce and models of care across East Coast Community Healthcare.

If you are passionate about developing people, advancing professional practice and creating opportunities for others to thrive this could be a a really exciting next chapter for you., You will assist the Director of Quality and People and the Deputy Director of Quality, to set clinical standards, implement them across ECCH and ensure clinical quality care across the organisation.

You will work individually and alongside other clinicians to create and develop patient care pathways based on the latest evidence which support best practice for all patients.

You will provide adhoc clinical advice with specific regard to scope of practice and pathway development.

You will provide comprehensive advice and support on nursing and AHP related matters to senior colleagues in dealing with complex concerns, complaints, clinical and critical incidents, including chairing hearing panels as required.

You will provide knowledge, leadership, advice and support to the operational teams and service heads on business and workforce planning for matters relating to nursing and AHP's, whilst ensuring the ethical and moral dimensions of clinical practice are adhered to.

You will lead by example in mentoring and supervising, ensuring adequate mentoring and supervision for all staff that deliver patient care and promote a learning culture which allows these staff to develop to their full potential.

You will lead the development of clinical research within ECCH and manage the ECCH relationship with the Research Delivery Network.

You will lead on the development and delivery of an annual clinical audit plan in collaboration with operational and quality colleagues.

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

East Coast Community Healthcare (ECCH) offers a complex range of healthcare delivered by trained clinicians and registered professionals. We are committed to excellence in clinical care, quality and safety, and this role is fundamental in assisting the organisation to embed excellent clinical practice at every level.