Job summary
Are you looking for your next exciting challenge? Are you an experienced healthcare manager with community, operational experience and excellent leadership skills?
This is a wonderful opportunity to join our senior clinical leadership team at a time of exciting change. We pride ourselves on the progress we are making in transforming our community mental health provision in Birmingham and Solihull, and we are looking for a hub manager to join us.
The post holder will manage one of our Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams, which are now working across Primary Care Networks, with the aim of improving access to services, providing timely interventions and improving integration and transitions between services.
Main duties of the job
You will lead a team which will support the seamless transition of service users through the pathways in accordance with their needs.
You will continue to develop a service that ensures that we improve service user experience, by ensuring holistic assessments and by building relationships that enable access to a range of community support services and networks to meet health and social needs.
You will develop processes, systems and pathways, and you will work across professional and service boundaries to ensure collaborative working and integration of services.
You will ensure that the aspirations and key performance indicators for the service are met, and you will have robust systems in place to monitor and review the service.
About us
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree in relevant subject ( or working towards) or equivalent relevant experience
- Professional registration in a health related profession
Desirable
- Relevant teaching and assessing qualification, such as Certificate in Education (Cert Ed) or Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) or equivalent City & Guilds award.
- Quality assurance or management qualification
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Substantive post-graduate/qualifying registration experience with substantive experience at Band 7
- Significant operational/ team management and leadership experience
- Experience of budgetary control and management.
- Experience of community nursing and/or multi-agency working
- Proven track record of crisis, serious incident management in health care setting.
- Proven record of evaluating nursing care/care delivery and driving up standards of practice.
- Experience of clinical governance / service improvement
- Working within integrated care pathways.
- Understanding the key principles of clinical governance.
- Working knowledge of Primary and Secondary Care Services
Desirable
- Critical incident analysis and reporting experience.
- Evidence of monitoring, maintaining, and improving standards including enhancing the patient/client experience of care and promoting best practice
Skills
Essential
- Higher levels of organisational, communication and people management skills.
- To be able to demonstrate motivational leadership skills and drive new initiatives.
- Ability to establish and maintain partnership working/relationships.
- Ability to read and interpret data/information.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Willingness to work to changing circumstances when required.
- To be able to gain confidence of and credibility with a range of professionals.
- Willingness to attend training as identified through the Development Review and Professional Development Planning Process.
- Strong commitment to patients' self autonomy and quality of service.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree in relevant subject ( or working towards) or equivalent relevant experience
- Professional registration in a health related profession
Desirable
- Relevant teaching and assessing qualification, such as Certificate in Education (Cert Ed) or Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) or equivalent City & Guilds award.
- Quality assurance or management qualification
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Substantive post-graduate/qualifying registration experience with substantive experience at Band 7
- Significant operational/ team management and leadership experience
- Experience of budgetary control and management.
- Experience of community nursing and/or multi-agency working
- Proven track record of crisis, serious incident management in health care setting.
- Proven record of evaluating nursing care/care delivery and driving up standards of practice.
- Experience of clinical governance / service improvement
- Working within integrated care pathways.
- Understanding the key principles of clinical governance.
- Working knowledge of Primary and Secondary Care Services
Desirable
- Critical incident analysis and reporting experience.
- Evidence of monitoring, maintaining, and improving standards including enhancing the patient/client experience of care and promoting best practice
Skills
Essential
- Higher levels of organisational, communication and people management skills.
- To be able to demonstrate motivational leadership skills and drive new initiatives.
- Ability to establish and maintain partnership working/relationships.
- Ability to read and interpret data/information.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Willingness to work to changing circumstances when required.
- To be able to gain confidence of and credibility with a range of professionals.
- Willingness to attend training as identified through the Development Review and Professional Development Planning Process.
- Strong commitment to patients' self autonomy and quality of service.
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).
