Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Services Manager for our new Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Team - Family Safeguarding.
The Family Safeguarding Model is a strengths-based model and a new way of working in West Sussex so families can stay together, and children can remain safely at home. The model brings together under one roof all the professionals needed to help children, blending children's socialworkers and professionals who work with adults with complex needs to help families in a holistic way.
This is an unique opportunity for a healthcare professional with experience of managing health teams, to lead and develop our specialist health practitioners working within a multidisciplinary team supporting some of our most vulnerable families.
This is a new new role within our Trust, providing a specialist emotional and wellbeing health service within the Family Safeguarding teams based in West Sussex County Council children's social care. The work will be across West Sussex with main team hubs located in Crawley, Bognor and Worthing.
You will have experience of working with adults and families with mental health and complex safeguarding needs and have significant experience building therapeutic relationships with parents and their children where there is a high risk of severe parenting problems, including maltreatment and neglect.
Main duties of the job
Providing operational management, clinical oversight and reporting of the Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health Team within Family Safeguarding.
You will facilitate continual learning and service improvement, planning for and ensuring a local learning programme for each practitioner to meet their own identified learning needs and to facilitate the team based needs.
You will provide regular in-depth individual reflective supervision for the health practitioners to ensure high standards of practice and safe delivery of the service.
You will work with others to ensure engagement of local stakeholders and to ensure an effective pathway for identification of adults who can be offered the service.
You will build local relationships with the multidisciplinary team with family safeguarding promoting the importance of emotional health and wellbeing within families.
You will be required to support and cover Clinical Service Manager duties in the wider SCFT Healthy Child Programme teams as required.
About us
You will be working for SCFT but based within the Family Safeguarding Teams. You will be working with Healthy Child Programme (HCP) colleagues and will be the source of expertise for the wider workforce. You will have the support of working with our wider SCFT HCP teams such as Practice Educators and Digital Clinical team and be part of the senior leadership team of the HCP.
Why work for us?
- We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services working in supportive team environments, including medical, clinical, support and corporate services
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly.
- A variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county.
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options.
- Excellent training and development opportunities tailored to individuals.
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- We are proud to be a Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces.
- We are proud to be a Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCH
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job description and personal specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
You will be responsible for leading and managing the work of Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health team. This includes providing in-depth clinical and caseload supervision to practitioners, overseeing referrals and engagement of hard to reach families, building local relationships and facilitating continual learning and service improvement.
Experience of leading a team and a providing high quality clinical and safeguarding supervision to colleagues holding complex caseloads is essential.
Experience of performance management of a team, including reviewing and reporting data, monitoring budget expenditure is preferred.
You will be working 37.5 hours per week on a Monday to Friday and be able to travel across West Sussex to support your team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job description and personal specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
You will be responsible for leading and managing the work of Specialist Emotional and Wellbeing Health team. This includes providing in-depth clinical and caseload supervision to practitioners, overseeing referrals and engagement of hard to reach families, building local relationships and facilitating continual learning and service improvement.
Experience of leading a team and a providing high quality clinical and safeguarding supervision to colleagues holding complex caseloads is essential.
Experience of performance management of a team, including reviewing and reporting data, monitoring budget expenditure is preferred.
You will be working 37.5 hours per week on a Monday to Friday and be able to travel across West Sussex to support your team.
Person Specification
Degree and Professional Qualification
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Bachelor's degree in a health, social care or related area of study.
- Postgraduate Master's level qualification significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist clinical area.
Desirable
- Additional specialist qualification
Leadership
Essential
- Evidence of a leadership qualification or training
- Substantial experience in a leadership role including contributing to operational management of services.
- Experience of staff management including recruitment and retention of staff, performance management, and managing sickness and absence.
- Experience of assessing risks within clinical services
Desirable
- Evidence of contribution to service quality and development
- Evidence of project management
Complex Safeguarding and Family Safeguarding
Essential
- Evidence of a safeguarding qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Significant experience of working with families with complex safeguarding needs
- Experience working with adults with emotional health and wellbeing needs
- Experience of partnership working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory service providers.
Desirable
- Clear understanding of the Family Safeguarding Model
- Experience of delivering clinical and safeguarding supervision for those holding complex caseloads
Person Specification
Degree and Professional Qualification
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Bachelor's degree in a health, social care or related area of study.
- Postgraduate Master's level qualification significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist clinical area.
Desirable
- Additional specialist qualification
Leadership
Essential
- Evidence of a leadership qualification or training
- Substantial experience in a leadership role including contributing to operational management of services.
- Experience of staff management including recruitment and retention of staff, performance management, and managing sickness and absence.
- Experience of assessing risks within clinical services
Desirable
- Evidence of contribution to service quality and development
- Evidence of project management
Complex Safeguarding and Family Safeguarding
Essential
- Evidence of a safeguarding qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Significant experience of working with families with complex safeguarding needs
- Experience working with adults with emotional health and wellbeing needs
- Experience of partnership working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory service providers.
Desirable
- Clear understanding of the Family Safeguarding Model
- Experience of delivering clinical and safeguarding supervision for those holding complex caseloads
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
