Job summary
The main objective of the role is to manage the portfolio of children's services within the community division in Outer London Borough of Hillingdon. This includes both universal children's services such as school nursing and health visiting as well as more specialist services designed to support complex families e.g. child development, paediatric therapies,looked after children's team, immunisation and the children's nursing service.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings
Main duties of the job
The Role
We are keen to recruit a dynamic and experienced senior operational manager with experience of working with a range of stakeholders in a fast paced and changing environment.
You should have significant experience of working in a variety of health care settings and managing high quality effective services as well as an understanding and experience of children's community services and developments within the NHS. You will need to have energy, drive and ambition to manage across a wide geographical area, and be able to both work autonomously and also in partnership with key stakeholders, internal and external.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Beej Shira - PA to Claire Eves, Service Director for Outer London, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
01895 484795
Email: bshira@nhs.net
About us
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, is pleased to have a long standing delivery of community children's services within the borough of Hillingdon with close working relationships with partners across health, social care and the third sector. We are working hard with Hillingdon Health and Care Partners (HHCP) to ensure that we continue to deliver and enhance the integrated working that is key for the care of children within Hillingdon.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead the management and integration of all services within the community forchildren 0-19 in Outer London borough of Hillingdon where we procure services (both universal and for children with disability or complex families), ensuring effective joined up pathways with key partners including Local Authorities, NHSE and NWL.
- To be accountable for the delivery of CNWL Universal Health Services including Health Visiting, School Nursing, Looked after Children and Immunisation in Outer London Boroughs.
- To be accountable for the delivery of CNWL Targeted Health Services including Child Development Centre, Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy, Paediatric Occupational Therapy and Paediatric Physiotherapy and Community Childrensnursing services in our Outer London Borough of Hillingdon.
- To ensure efficient and response administrative services are in place across them borough to support front-line delivery and respond to 0-19 service working closely with the administration manager to support the child administration hub.
- 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 haveaccess 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 talentand develop individuals throughout the Childrens service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead the management and integration of all services within the community forchildren 0-19 in Outer London borough of Hillingdon where we procure services (both universal and for children with disability or complex families), ensuring effective joined up pathways with key partners including Local Authorities, NHSE and NWL.
- To be accountable for the delivery of CNWL Universal Health Services including Health Visiting, School Nursing, Looked after Children and Immunisation in Outer London Boroughs.
- To be accountable for the delivery of CNWL Targeted Health Services including Child Development Centre, Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy, Paediatric Occupational Therapy and Paediatric Physiotherapy and Community Childrensnursing services in our Outer London Borough of Hillingdon.
- To ensure efficient and response administrative services are in place across them borough to support front-line delivery and respond to 0-19 service working closely with the administration manager to support the child administration hub.
- 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 haveaccess 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 talentand develop individuals throughout the Childrens service.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- University degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Hold a professional clinical qualification in a relevant children's discipline
- 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
Desirable
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant senior managerial experience in a large and complex organisation preferably within the NHS
- Significant experience working in a senior management role within Children's Services (community, acute provider, local authority, CCG or LA commissioning) and an appropriate professional qualification in the speciality
- 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
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to community services
- A detailed understanding of the national children's agenda - both legislative and direction of travel
- Track record of undertaking and completing significant projects
- Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation
- Prioritising and managing workload within a busy operational role
- Self-motivated and autonomous
Desirable
- Previous experience of managing community services
- Breadth of management experience in different environments/across different areas (NHS or non NHS).
Specific Skills
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.
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities
- 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
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- University degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Hold a professional clinical qualification in a relevant children's discipline
- 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
Desirable
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant senior managerial experience in a large and complex organisation preferably within the NHS
- Significant experience working in a senior management role within Children's Services (community, acute provider, local authority, CCG or LA commissioning) and an appropriate professional qualification in the speciality
- 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
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to community services
- A detailed understanding of the national children's agenda - both legislative and direction of travel
- Track record of undertaking and completing significant projects
- Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation
- Prioritising and managing workload within a busy operational role
- Self-motivated and autonomous
Desirable
- Previous experience of managing community services
- Breadth of management experience in different environments/across different areas (NHS or non NHS).
Specific Skills
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.
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities
- 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
- 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
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).
