Job summary
This is your opportunity to step into a senior leadership role at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust as Service Manager for Forensics. Our medium secure and low secure services are delivered at Bracton Centre, Memorial Hospital and at community sites and have been rated outstanding by the CQC. You will be a highly visible and inspirational leader with substantial senior management experience in a health or social care setting and demonstrable experience of operational management of clinical services.
***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***
Main duties of the job
Provide senior strategic leadership across acute and community forensic services, ensuring high-quality clinical practice, robust governance and effective delivery across pathways.Build strong relationships with partners to enhance the accessibility and effectiveness of Forensic Services.Oversee operational performance , managing resources, budgets, staffing structures and risk to ensure the highest standards of safety, effectiveness and experience.Be a visible, credible leader , supporting staff across multiple teams and fostering a culture of compassion, accountability and continuous learning.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To plan and manage human, financial and estate resources and achieve agreed targets set by the directorate.
- To attend and contribute to management and service improvement.
- To influence the development of the clinical governance and quality agenda.
- To have managerial responsibility, accountability and lead service change for Forensic inpatient services
- To contribute pro-actively to the strategic development of the Directorate and Trust.
- To build effective networks and working alliances internally and externally.
- To ensure appropriate clinical and professional leadership and advice is in place for the directly managed and associated services.
- To provide expert advice to the Directorate, the Trust and external agencies in respect of the post holders area of responsibility.
- To have the designated lead for individual strategic/operational work streams on behalf of the Directorate/Trust.
- To be accountable for service delivery and implement key national and local requirements of the Commissioners and Directorate Business plans.
- Work in partnership internally and externally to deliver evidence based, high quality care and treatment. Key liaisons include the South London Partnership (SLP) and constituent members.
- To work with all the teams to take positive action with respect to diversity and ensure equity of services for all minority user groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To plan and manage human, financial and estate resources and achieve agreed targets set by the directorate.
- To attend and contribute to management and service improvement.
- To influence the development of the clinical governance and quality agenda.
- To have managerial responsibility, accountability and lead service change for Forensic inpatient services
- To contribute pro-actively to the strategic development of the Directorate and Trust.
- To build effective networks and working alliances internally and externally.
- To ensure appropriate clinical and professional leadership and advice is in place for the directly managed and associated services.
- To provide expert advice to the Directorate, the Trust and external agencies in respect of the post holders area of responsibility.
- To have the designated lead for individual strategic/operational work streams on behalf of the Directorate/Trust.
- To be accountable for service delivery and implement key national and local requirements of the Commissioners and Directorate Business plans.
- Work in partnership internally and externally to deliver evidence based, high quality care and treatment. Key liaisons include the South London Partnership (SLP) and constituent members.
- To work with all the teams to take positive action with respect to diversity and ensure equity of services for all minority user groups.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Substantial senior management experience in a health (or social care) care sector with demonstrable experience of operational management of clinical services.
- Masters Degree or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Project management within a complex, multi-agency service system, including proactive management of change
- Leadership of substantial service change
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Leadership of teams and delivering deadlines within resources
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Substantial senior management experience in a health (or social care) care sector with demonstrable experience of operational management of clinical services.
- Masters Degree or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Project management within a complex, multi-agency service system, including proactive management of change
- Leadership of substantial service change
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Leadership of teams and delivering deadlines within resources
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).
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bracton Centre, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Bracton Lane, off Layton Cross Road
Dartford
DA2 7AF
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
