Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Service Desk Performance and Governance Lead

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Job summary

The role will be responsible for managing and ensuring the quality and integrity of input data and transactional changes complete by the service desk team.

Reporting to the Service Desk Manager, the post holder will provide leadership to Reporting and Governance Analyst, deputising for the team manager, assisting with, and developing the skills of the team, and providing timely service desk data to Clinical and Corporate Directorates.

The role will support the work of the Service Desk Manager to plan, lead and empower the service desk team, co-ordinating team effort and resources, guiding successful delivery, improving best practice, and delivering a quality assured service to end users.

Ensure that the Trust receive timely and accurate service desk data that enable effective planning and deployment of resources. The service should be fully compliant with national guidelines and local policy requirements.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for complex enquiries and complaints with regards to compliance and incidents ensuring matters are investigated, managers engaged and responded to appropriately.

Attend and support appropriate operational and workforce forums.

Provide regular service desk reports to key internal and external stakeholders at various levels.

Development and maintenance of relationships with operational managers, particularly divisional managers, senior clinical leads and other senior staff as appropriate to ensure service desk reports are relevant and the data and narrative is accessible and meaningful providing valuable insights.Working with establishment systems team, finance and informatics teams to create dashboards showing useful organisational data to enable agile decision making, CIP delivery and operational preparedness.

About us

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Details

Date posted

10 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

390-COR-0461

Job locations

Britannia House

Comet Way

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

SS2 6GE


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached a full job description setting out the details of the role and responsibilities.

We look forward to your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached a full job description setting out the details of the role and responsibilities.

We look forward to your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to post graduate masters' degree level or equivalent experience.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of Trust policies relating to workforce and financial grip and control around workforce establishments.
  • Substantial knowledge of staff and relationship management techniques in order to manage team workload and agree solutions with service users and across the Trust and give advice.

Communications Skills

Essential

  • Effective communication and interpersonal skill, able to deal with Managers and staff at all levels efficiently and courteously and in a confident and assertive manner
  • Able to produce and develop complex and intuitive management reports to monitor utilisation, identify themes and trends and performance compliance.

Personal and People Development

Essential

  • A pro-active and motivated self-starter.
  • Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
  • Significant advisory skills to stakeholders.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to post graduate masters' degree level or equivalent experience.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of Trust policies relating to workforce and financial grip and control around workforce establishments.
  • Substantial knowledge of staff and relationship management techniques in order to manage team workload and agree solutions with service users and across the Trust and give advice.

Communications Skills

Essential

  • Effective communication and interpersonal skill, able to deal with Managers and staff at all levels efficiently and courteously and in a confident and assertive manner
  • Able to produce and develop complex and intuitive management reports to monitor utilisation, identify themes and trends and performance compliance.

Personal and People Development

Essential

  • A pro-active and motivated self-starter.
  • Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
  • Significant advisory skills to stakeholders.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Britannia House

Comet Way

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

SS2 6GE


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Britannia House

Comet Way

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

SS2 6GE


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Director of Workforce Services

Lee Brown

lee.brown@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

10 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

390-COR-0461

Job locations

Britannia House

Comet Way

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

SS2 6GE


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