Job summary
Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough Lead
The Whittington Health Adult Community Service are seeking to recruit a new Associate Director of AHP for the Adult Community Services - who also acts as our Borough Lead for Haringey.
We are looking for an excellent AHP leader who will bring an appreciation of community working and will share our excitement about the significant potential for growth and development of services in the community.
Are you feeling up for the challenge, then please apply now!
Whittington Health is an integrated care organisation providing hospital and community care services to people living in Islington and Haringey and other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. We have over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London, and a highly-regarded educational role as part of the UCL Medical School. As an integrated care organisation, we bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients' experience.
Our Adult Community Services has a CQC 'Outstanding' rating and a relentless focus on continuous improvement, innovation and integration.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to our Director of Operations (Adult Community Services) as a member of the quadrumvirate leadership team, and working closely with the Trust's Chief Nurse, you will provide senior clinical leadership and will lead operational management at Borough level for Haringey. Key responsibilities will include:
- Working with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations to lead all Adult Community Services activities and deputise for the Director of Operations as appropriate.
- Acting as the lead professional for AHP & Nursing in Adult Community Services and being an advocate for patients, clients and their families in the achievement of clinical excellence.
- Delivering safe and high-quality community services across all our teams.
- Providing system leadership for the service to drive through best practice changes to ensure that clinical outcomes for patients, clients and their families continually improve.
- Championing strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensuring the engagement of other services to maintain patient flow across the hospital and the community system.
- Playing a significant role in the strategic development of Adult Community Services, developing business cases to support funding, defining on-going strategic direction through robust annual planning, multi-agency working and report writing.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
POST SUMMARY
- Work proactively and collaboratively with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations to lead all ICSU based activities and deputise for the Director of Operations as appropriate.
- To support the achievement of all the Integrated Care Service Unit (ICSU) based key performance targets and work in liaison with other ICSUs to share best practice.
- Be the lead professional for Nursing & Midwifery or AHPs in the ICSU and to be an advocate for patients, clients and their families in the achievement of clinical excellence. The post holder will provide senior clinical leadership for AHP's or Nursing and will lead operational management within the ICSU at borough level.
- To provide system leadership for the service to drive through best practice changes to ensure that clinical outcomes for patients, clients and their families continually improve.
- To champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensure the engagement of other services to maintain patient flow across the hospital and the community system.
- The post holder will lead in the delivery of excellent care to ensure that local objectives align to the Trust Nursing & Midwifery/AHP strategic priorities.
- Taking a trust wide lead in one/or more of the corporate nursing/AHP priority areas, the post holder will support the improvement andstrengthening of quality of care (patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness) by working closely with the localgovernance leads. A key part of this role will include ensuring the delivery of CQC standards. Locally the post holder will lead onoptimising and strengthening the role and responsibility of shift leaders and senior nurses & AHPs within the ICSU.
- To work with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations in moving/maintaining the services within the ICSU towards an outstanding CQC rating.
- To ensure efficient and response administrative services are in place across the borough to support front-line delivery and respond to estates/facilities requests to meet health and safety requirements.
- To assume overall oversight of the delivery of services across organisational boundaries, where relevant, and disciplines, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise both individual and organisational performance and that all staff have access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance through both dotted and solid line reporting structures.
- To develop a range of mechanisms to grow talent and develop individuals throughout the service.
- To act as a senior clinical champion influencing multi-disciplinary staff from a range of organisations to make change, ensuring that service improvements are acceptable and sustainable across both professional and organisational boundaries.
- To ensure that appropriate methods are used to ensure the inclusion of patients perspectives within service improvements.
- To be responsible for developing the Strategic Direction of the Adult Community Services ICSU, developing business cases to support funding, defining on-going strategic direction through robust annual planning, multi-agency working and report writing.
- To lead on the development and delivery of productivity and efficiency savings within the service.
- To work with the governance lead to develop systems, control processes and risk management arrangements that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures including a joint governance structure across the partnership organisations.
- To work with the colleagues to develop the strategic plan necessary to shape the future of the Adult Community Services ICSU and to ensure delivery of the Annual Business plan to the timetabled milestones and delivery of financial operating targets.
Job description
Job responsibilities
POST SUMMARY
- Work proactively and collaboratively with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations to lead all ICSU based activities and deputise for the Director of Operations as appropriate.
- To support the achievement of all the Integrated Care Service Unit (ICSU) based key performance targets and work in liaison with other ICSUs to share best practice.
- Be the lead professional for Nursing & Midwifery or AHPs in the ICSU and to be an advocate for patients, clients and their families in the achievement of clinical excellence. The post holder will provide senior clinical leadership for AHP's or Nursing and will lead operational management within the ICSU at borough level.
- To provide system leadership for the service to drive through best practice changes to ensure that clinical outcomes for patients, clients and their families continually improve.
- To champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensure the engagement of other services to maintain patient flow across the hospital and the community system.
- The post holder will lead in the delivery of excellent care to ensure that local objectives align to the Trust Nursing & Midwifery/AHP strategic priorities.
- Taking a trust wide lead in one/or more of the corporate nursing/AHP priority areas, the post holder will support the improvement andstrengthening of quality of care (patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness) by working closely with the localgovernance leads. A key part of this role will include ensuring the delivery of CQC standards. Locally the post holder will lead onoptimising and strengthening the role and responsibility of shift leaders and senior nurses & AHPs within the ICSU.
- To work with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations in moving/maintaining the services within the ICSU towards an outstanding CQC rating.
- To ensure efficient and response administrative services are in place across the borough to support front-line delivery and respond to estates/facilities requests to meet health and safety requirements.
- To assume overall oversight of the delivery of services across organisational boundaries, where relevant, and disciplines, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise both individual and organisational performance and that all staff have access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance through both dotted and solid line reporting structures.
- To develop a range of mechanisms to grow talent and develop individuals throughout the service.
- To act as a senior clinical champion influencing multi-disciplinary staff from a range of organisations to make change, ensuring that service improvements are acceptable and sustainable across both professional and organisational boundaries.
- To ensure that appropriate methods are used to ensure the inclusion of patients perspectives within service improvements.
- To be responsible for developing the Strategic Direction of the Adult Community Services ICSU, developing business cases to support funding, defining on-going strategic direction through robust annual planning, multi-agency working and report writing.
- To lead on the development and delivery of productivity and efficiency savings within the service.
- To work with the governance lead to develop systems, control processes and risk management arrangements that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures including a joint governance structure across the partnership organisations.
- To work with the colleagues to develop the strategic plan necessary to shape the future of the Adult Community Services ICSU and to ensure delivery of the Annual Business plan to the timetabled milestones and delivery of financial operating targets.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable capability and capacity for clinical service management at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare environment, including staff management, financial management and change management.
- Minimum of 3 years previous senior managerial experience in a large and complex organisation preferably within the NHS.
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to community services
- A detailed understanding of the national community services agenda - both legislative and direction of travel
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources. Previous experience of managing community services
- Ability to manage budgets, including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective actions
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, with a track record in writing complex business cases and policies
- Advanced keyboard skills and knowledge of a full range of IT software including databases.
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line";
- Make things happen by working in partnership with others and using the highest level influencing and negotiating skills
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude;
- Physical dexterity required for basic keyboard skills
- Ability to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues
- Ability to deal with exposure to verbal and physical aggression
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- University degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Hold a relevant professional clinical qualification (AHP or Nursing)
- NMC or Health Professions Council registration
- MSc/MA relevant to post
Personal Qualities
Essential
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
- Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation
- Self-motivated and autonomous
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve others
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities.
- A sense of humor with the motivation required for delivery of targets and priorities.
- Sound political judgement with high levels of emotional resilience.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable capability and capacity for clinical service management at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare environment, including staff management, financial management and change management.
- Minimum of 3 years previous senior managerial experience in a large and complex organisation preferably within the NHS.
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to community services
- A detailed understanding of the national community services agenda - both legislative and direction of travel
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources. Previous experience of managing community services
- Ability to manage budgets, including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective actions
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, with a track record in writing complex business cases and policies
- Advanced keyboard skills and knowledge of a full range of IT software including databases.
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line";
- Make things happen by working in partnership with others and using the highest level influencing and negotiating skills
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude;
- Physical dexterity required for basic keyboard skills
- Ability to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues
- Ability to deal with exposure to verbal and physical aggression
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- University degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Hold a relevant professional clinical qualification (AHP or Nursing)
- NMC or Health Professions Council registration
- MSc/MA relevant to post
Personal Qualities
Essential
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
- Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation
- Self-motivated and autonomous
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve others
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities.
- A sense of humor with the motivation required for delivery of targets and priorities.
- Sound political judgement with high levels of emotional resilience.
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).
