Deputy Director for Community Health Services

Job summary

Are you a high performing, senior healthcare leader ready for your next challenge?

The Community Health Services (CHS) directorate within Leicestershire Partnership Trust provides services across several community hospitals, in a wide range of other community settings and in patients homes, all managed through a single point of access.

At a system level, CHS plays a crucial role in neighbourhood working, ensuring the right care, in the right place at the right time. If patients do require acute hospital admission, we are responsible for ensuring discharge to LPT inpatient settings where required, and subsequently back into services delivered in patients own homes or residential / nursing homes.

This work is complex, requires teams to think beyond traditional organisational boundaries and requires leadership that can effectively engage and work with other systems partners.

We are looking for an experienced senior healthcare leader, with outstanding leadership skills and confidence to drive performance and transformation in a complex environment, to deliver high-quality outcomes and experiences for patients and staff.

The successful candidate will have shown that they are an effective, visible, and approachable leader who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both within and across organisational boundaries.

For further information or an informal conversation with Sam Leak (Director for CHS) please contact - wendy.mills2@leicspart.nhs.uk 07918 996767

Main duties of the job

• Working alongside the CHS Associate Medical Director, Head of Nursing, and AHP Lead, the Deputy Director will, with the support of the Directorate Leadership Team, be accountable for the strategic leadership of health service delivery and the effective governance of the diverse range of clinical services provided in CHS. These include adult community bed-based services and adult community and specialist services.
• Specifically, the post holder will be responsible for providing high level operational and strategic direction, planning and leadership to ensure that the Directorate provides high quality clinical care, which is safe and achieves its performance and financial objectives.
• The post holder will be accountable for what our service users experience and say about our services and what our staff say.
• The post holder will foster productive and positive internal and external relationships to enhance care delivery.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

County Hall, Penn Lloyd Building

Glenfield

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

County Hall, Penn Lloyd Building

Glenfield

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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