South West Spinal Cord Injury Network Manager

Job summary

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to support transformational change, quality improvements and value by using effective and sustainable approaches to improve the quality and experience for patients receiving spinal cord injury care within the Network geography.

This role has leadership and management responsibility for the Spinal Cord Injury Operational Delivery Network (ODN) in the Southwest (including that part of the South East region covered by the Wessex Major Trauma Centre, which also comprises part of the catchment of the Salisbury Spinal Injuries Centre). It is advertised on a 0.5 WTE basis and hosted by Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, but is suitable to be fulfilled on a remote working basis, with some requirement for occasional travel across the network area.

Main duties of the job

This role will involve complex negotiation, be required to influence leadership discussions and lead on the management and co-ordination of the network by understanding current pan-network service provision, support the strategic development of spinal care throughout the region and build a commitment to partnership working; which will improve and align spinal cord injury services, achieving sustainable, efficient and effective services which meet high-quality standards and indicators capable of meeting all NHS statutory and regulatory requirements.

The post holder, alongside the Clinical Director, will set strategic direction and the operational management for the ODN by way of leading the network team and ensuring partnership working across key constituent stakeholders, to promote system and network ambitions, achieving the agreed annual priorities and delivery of key work programme objectives; ultimately demonstrating measurement and oversight with clear, evidenced outcomes and benefits for patients and their care.

This post will require the post holder to influence and inform workstreams across a regional footprint and build on the positive work to date including whole pathway reviews for specific elective and emergency pathways. Therefore, this post would be of interest to individuals who want to improve the care of whole populations along specific condition pathways, in addition to those who have an interest in stakeholder engagement and relationship building.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk