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Job Description
The Team Leader is responsible for the clinical activities of the screening programme, ensuring robust rota management, screening and grading capacity planning, first line management of service staff and oversight of service performance and processes, this will include but not be limited to:
- Monitoring staff performance, training and competency, as well as the service's equipment and facilities.
- Day-to-day operational management and clinic appointment booking. This involves working with and across a wide range of stakeholders, particularly liaising with GP and Medical Centre managers.
- Ensuring the programme is delivered in line with national standards, providing an excellent screening service with the ultimate aim of reducing new blindness due to diabetic retinopathy.
Job Dimensions
- Support Programme Manager in achieving objectives and capacity planning.
- The post holder will undertake RDS, DS and SLB clinics as required and be trained up to the required levels.
- Undertake clinics as required and manage teams in Dorset region.
- Ensure proper disposal of sensitive data and compliance with regulations.
- Maintain policy documents and ensure legislative compliance.
- Uphold safe working practices in line with organisational protocols.
The main accountabilities
- Responsible for day to day service management and support, troubleshooting situations in clinic, providing advice and guidance and resolving operational issues.
- Responsible for capacity planning, venue booking and rota management to ensure screening episodes and grading results are within NSC timescales.
- Responsible for daily oversight of appointment waiting lists to ensure breached and overdue numbers are kept to a minimum, working with Central Admin to fill under-booked clinics, prioritise booking (e.g. new patients) and ensure fully utilised clinic capacity.
- Responsible for recruitment selection, induction, appraisal, review and continued professional development of screening and grading staff.
- Supporting the Programme Manager with health and safety assessment and training, risk assessment, business continuity planning, patient complaints/feedback, incident recording and incident investigation.
- Responsible for service quality and standards, assessing and monitoring performance and identifying training needs or devising Standard Operating Procedures to align processes, ensuring effective communication on a regular basis.
- Facilitate staff training and educational programmes to enhance their performance.
- Provide oversight of patient care pathways including working with the Central Admin, Failsafe and IT Helpdesk teams to manage pathway issues.
- Accountable for staff management and the daily overview of the screening teams work, monitoring attendance in accordance with NECSWS policy on absence including sickness, annual leave and special leave.
- Maintain an accurate service user database (NEC OptoMize), monitoring and adjusting configuration, user profiles, locations, grading matrix, etc., as required.
- Monitor and manage the service's equipment and facilities, including offices, van and camera maintenance.
- Assist with service user enquiries as and when required, ensuring enquiries are actioned and maintained appropriately and that confidentiality is kept at all times and in accordance with appropriate legislation. .
- Flexible approach to the changing needs of the local service and the organisation as a whole.
- Support colleagues with absence cover of screening clinics and/or grading depending on experience.
Qualifications
- Health Screening Diploma (or City & Guilds) qualification.
- Management or Leadership experience including performance management of teams and individuals alongside an experience of working within diabetic eye screening, healthcare or other people/patient focused services
- Be willing and able to run all aspects of RDS, DS and SLB clinics and to be able to grade at all levels, with proven high sensitivity and sensitivity.
- Be able to use good effective communication skills both written and oral within a multidisciplinary team at all levels and with diabetic patients in a calm, sensitive, and reassuring way. As well as the ability to work successfully across professional organisations and with a multitude of stakeholders
- IT literate with a knowledge of information governance
- A full UK driving license and preferably your own transport
- Minimum of 5 GCSEs including grades A-C in English, Maths and a Science subject or equivalent.
Additional Information
We are proud of the benefits we offer employees of NEC Software Solutions
- Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
- 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/ sell
- 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
- A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
- A fantastic selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
- We are an employer who cares, we have a invaluable employee assistance programme which can help in every area of your life
- All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks.
NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.
Who we are?
We're NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.
Working with us, you'll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what's possible and support amazing public services.
We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.
We'd love your help. And we'll support you all the way.
