Hospice at Home Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Our Care

To work with passion and dedication as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the care delivered to our patients is exceptional and we deliver care with agility. Youll research and learn the best ways of delivering interventions and ensure people are scheduled with the right experience to deliver safe and effective care

Alongside other senior colleagues youll manage strategy, KPIs, budgets, clinical governance and performance of the team and charity with positivity and by going the extra mile

Ability to lead partnership working across the integrated care system

To provide clinical leadership in all meetings

To lead on safeguarding, mental capacity act, DOLS and patient safety as required including the training and support all clinical staff

To work with partners, wider health and social care teams, and commissioners to ensure a whole system approach with collaboration and delivery for the patient at the heart of what we do May 2023

Our Finances

Using strong financial acumen youll manage your budgets, find more for less solutions and lead a cost conscious culture, ensuring sustainability for the future

Through effect contract management youll work collaboratively with Finance to understand, measure and deliver the contracts. Youll have an excellent understanding of financial data and cost management

Our People

To deliver excellent patient care through recruiting, training, managing and supporting our employees and volunteers to be the best versions of themselves

Youll be empowered to recruit, engage, and develop our people within an inclusive, diverse, learning and collaborative culture, living our values

To ensure all communication with people from a variety of backgrounds with diverse needs is accurate, timely and aligned to our values To continuously learn and develop to maintain professional and managerial competence and teach others where skilled to do so

To role model the right behaviours and ways of working to understand ethnic, cultural, spiritual, religious and any other differences between people to ensure our people, patients and families feel included and supported. Being sustainable

Youll be detailed conscious and a forward thinker who has excellent IT and planning skills to ensure the smooth operation of the team within budget

To manage conflict, complexity and day to day demands ensuring the team is effective and productive

Working with others youll make sure deliverables are appropriately resourced and project managed. This will include charity wide events, workforce improvements and continuous improvement to clinical services

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• a current registration as a Health Care Professional with the NMC or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• post registration experience in the community, preferably with a community qualification
• Youll develop a collaborative team who respect and value the skills of all who work for the Hospice at
• Home, setting the culture and tone for how people work together
• To provide clinical and operational leadership and management for the Hospice at Home team
• ensuring team members are of a high quality and put patients and their families at the centre of
• everything we do
• Under the guidance of the Chief Nurse, set up new services, implement necessary changes and take
• actions in response to feedback
• Overall oversight for all aspects of people management including managing complex employee
• casework
• To ensure clinical standards are delivered to CQC expectations and research is undertaken to ensure
• we are always delivering best practice
• To lead on Safeguarding, risk management and regulatory compliance
• To take accountability for delivering care with agility through strong partnership with other clinical
• leaders
• To deputise in the absence of the Chief Nurse and hold responsibility for elements of the registered
• manager role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Thames Hospice

Address

Windsor Road

Maidenhead

Berkshire

SL6 2DN

Employer's website

https://www.thameshospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)