Band 8b Clinical Services Manager - Ardenleigh Centre

Job summary

Are you looking for your next exciting challenge?Are you a compassionate and visible leader keen to lead a service towards quality care delivery?Are you a values-based leader who can engage with staff and service users?If this is you, we want to hear from you.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the leadership team in Secure Care and Offender Health at a time of exciting change. We pride ourselves on the transformation and quality improvements we are making as we boost mental health provision across the West Midlands.

At Ardenleigh we provide Trauma Informed Secure Inpatient services across 3 Services:-

Ardenleigh Womens Secure Blended Service (30 Inpatient beds)

CAMHS Medium Secure Service (11 Beds)

CAMHS Low Secure Service (5 Beds)

The portfolio includes the Youth First Team which is a specialist community child and adolescent mental health service for high risk young people with complex needs in the West Midlands. They provide an advisory, consultation, assessment and intervention based model of care.

You will be leading well established, caring and compassionate MDT and Nursing Teams and leading on exciting service developments. A passion for working within a fast paced environment with women and adolescents is vital. You will find this role rewarding and inspiring.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for operational management, leadership, planning and delivery of services across the agreed service area within the medium secure inpatient setting and community youth team.They will also have responsibility for the overall secure service site. As a member of the senior management team, the post holder will contribute to the shaping of the strategic direction for the services and ensure its implementation within defined timescales.

The role is pivotal in assisting the Clinical Director, Associate Director, Head of Nursing, Exec Director of Nursing, Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality and other professional heads with the delivery of appropriate professional standards and clinical service across the portfolio and wider trust.

The post holder will need to have proven experience in a leadership role and demonstrate innovative and dynamic ways of working within a secure care service, especially in the areas of care provided at Ardenleigh. Key to success will be a sound knowledge and experience of operational service issues within a mental health environment especially medium secure, the ability to operate in a complex and changing service; effective partnership working across a diverse community; well-developed communication skills and the ability to lead redesign without compromising service delivery.

About us

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) is one of the largest providers of secure care and offender health services in the country.As a result the Trust offers new staff an excellent experience across a variety of provision which incorporates community psychological intervention services, a community outreach team (FIRST), criminal justice recovery service, prison health care service, together with inpatient services which provide low and medium secure services foryoung people, women and men.

We are passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion and so welcome applications from people with a range of diverse backgrounds who would role model our approach.