Job summary
Join our team and become part of the future of the NHS
Services like NHS@Home (our innovative virtual ward model) combine the latest innovation and technology with holistic, person-centered and face to face treatments to offer an alternative to hospital for people who are acutely unwell across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
"Knowing I was being discharged into the NHS@Home service made the world of difference to me...I also recovered more quickly because I was able to get more rest in my own bed" NL, service user
The service is run in partnership between Sirona, North Bristol Trust, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Trust and BrisDoc. This collaborative model of clinical delivery has been nationally recognised as leading how integration can work to meet the needs of local populations.
The Associate Director role is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician and senior manager to join our integrated management team model, to lead the next phase of the service's development. Working collaboratively with partners, this role also has a unique opportunity to help shape the future of wider Urgent and Emergency Care Services within Sirona and across the system.
We're seeking an ambitious, innovative, and collaborative leader who is passionate about high quality care to join us on this journey. If you're enthused by transformation, have the drive and determination to succeed and are looking to further your career, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The role has shared accountability for the operational performance and strategic development of the integrated NHS @home model across the provider organisations, working in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Teams from each. This includes accountability for high quality patient care, patient safety, clinical quality and governance, the delivery of agreed performance and financial objectives, and ensuring that NHS @home operates with the needs of patients as its highest priority.
You will work in conjunction with the NHS @home Clinical Director, providing senior leadership and strategic direction, ensuring delivery of the quality, governance, performance and transformation agendas and representing NHS @home at both internal and external meetings, including regional and national. You will provide strategic leadership to strengthen interfaces between NHS @Home and other urgent and emergency care pathways.
You will be accountable for the direct delivery of non-medical professional clinical services within NHS@Home and will provide the vision and support alongside the Clinical Director in ensuring the development of these services to meet the current and future requirements within NHS@Home.
You will be a key member of NHS@home senior management team and be accountable for implementing and maintaining clinical governance and risk management, including evidence of compliance with the Care Quality Commission regulations. You will be the registered CQC manager for the service.
About us
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.
We are Sirona care & health - England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme - just a glimpse of the benefits you'll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different - we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role before applying.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from UK based applicants
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role before applying.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from UK based applicants
Person Specification
Clinical & Operational experience
Essential
- Significant experience within the Healthcare sector at senior manager level including responsibility for strategic planning and budgetary control for group of complex operational/clinical specialities.
- Ability to manage complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation and across a range of professional and organisational boundaries, as well as between organisations.
- Extensive operational management experience including experience of managing and developing multi-disciplinary teams
- Proven track record in managing and delivering the quality agenda in clinical practice in the NHS.
- Excellent financial awareness and ability to maximise use of resources
Desirable
- Experience of working on a management on-call rota.
Problem Solving and Communication
Essential
- Well-developed digital skills to manage and report on complex performance management information and present complex data to a range of audiences.
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills and ability to make informed decisions whilst considering wider system, organisational and business impacts
- Excellent communicator at a senior level and across organisational boundaries - written and oral.
Delivering Transformation
Essential
- Proven track record of achieving challenging healthcare targets, with the ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver.
- Experience of leading and delivering significant programmes of change within an NHS setting, with multiple stakeholders and across organisational boundaries
- Experience of working with multi-agency committees and establishing relationships with external organisations.
- Demonstrable experience of challenging the status quo and gaining support for a plan or vision.
Broader Knowledge Base
Essential
- Detailed appreciation of requirements of managing CQC regulated services
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the national policy and the transformation agenda along with the associated legislative, regulatory and performance management framework for health and social care
- Detailed knowledge of current professional issues, both in education and practice.
Desirable
- Experience of developing and building research capacity and capability.
- Contribution to developments in professional field at national level.
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level or evidence of equivalent professional development.
- Professional qualification in Health care and current registration.
- Recognised post-graduate Management / Leadership qualification
- Comprehensive training in professional and management procedures within own and related areas
Person Specification
Clinical & Operational experience
Essential
- Significant experience within the Healthcare sector at senior manager level including responsibility for strategic planning and budgetary control for group of complex operational/clinical specialities.
- Ability to manage complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation and across a range of professional and organisational boundaries, as well as between organisations.
- Extensive operational management experience including experience of managing and developing multi-disciplinary teams
- Proven track record in managing and delivering the quality agenda in clinical practice in the NHS.
- Excellent financial awareness and ability to maximise use of resources
Desirable
- Experience of working on a management on-call rota.
Problem Solving and Communication
Essential
- Well-developed digital skills to manage and report on complex performance management information and present complex data to a range of audiences.
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills and ability to make informed decisions whilst considering wider system, organisational and business impacts
- Excellent communicator at a senior level and across organisational boundaries - written and oral.
Delivering Transformation
Essential
- Proven track record of achieving challenging healthcare targets, with the ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver.
- Experience of leading and delivering significant programmes of change within an NHS setting, with multiple stakeholders and across organisational boundaries
- Experience of working with multi-agency committees and establishing relationships with external organisations.
- Demonstrable experience of challenging the status quo and gaining support for a plan or vision.
Broader Knowledge Base
Essential
- Detailed appreciation of requirements of managing CQC regulated services
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the national policy and the transformation agenda along with the associated legislative, regulatory and performance management framework for health and social care
- Detailed knowledge of current professional issues, both in education and practice.
Desirable
- Experience of developing and building research capacity and capability.
- Contribution to developments in professional field at national level.
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level or evidence of equivalent professional development.
- Professional qualification in Health care and current registration.
- Recognised post-graduate Management / Leadership qualification
- Comprehensive training in professional and management procedures within own and related areas
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).
Additional information
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).
