Job summary
Looking for a rewarding new opportunity as Inpatient Service Manager?
We have an exciting opening for an experienced and motivated candidate to join our Inpatient unit leadership team, the role of inpatient Service Manager is a part time (0.60WTE) fixed term/secondment for 12 months and is part of a job share.
This role is based at the Pamela Bryant Inpatient unit at Teddington Memorial Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The Pamela Bryant Inpatient unit is a 28 bedded facility within Teddington Memorial Hospital (TMH) for patients that require the provision of a suitable environment and need assessment, observation rehabilitation and levels of nursing and therapy care that is over and above that offered by the community nursing and therapy teams.
As part of our team, you will work jointly with the current Inpatient Service Manager to provide leadership to the multi-disciplinary team ensuring the service is well led and improving health outcomes for our patients.
The Inpatient Unit Service Manager will be responsible for the development and delivery of the service in the Inpatient Unit and will contribute to the strategic planning of the Unit and ensure effective multidisciplinary working, effective financial management and the efficient use of all resources.
You'll need excellent communication and leadership skills to succeed in this role, as well as a real passion for providing top-quality care to your patients. We welcome candidates with experience of leading, managing and motivating staff preferably in a similar environment.
This is an ideal role for a motivated band 7 or current 8a to take on a new challenge in a highly supportive leadership team.
About us
Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job.Our preceptorship programme is second to none hence the award and logo.It's simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services. In 2018, we were named'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction'by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A relevant professional qualification in nursing, or AHP and current registration with the relevant professional body
- Post-graduate leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Willingness to work towards continued professional and practice development through leadership training/courses
Desirable
- Additional leadership qualification
- Masters level qualification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post-qualification experience of working in a statutory Health or Social Care setting demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility, preferably in a multi-disciplinary team
- Substantial experience of leading, managing and motivating staff including performance management and staff development to deliver high quality results.
- Experience of achieving positive outcomes for patients and through multi-disciplinary and partnership working.
- Experience of managing successful change programmes, working across service areas to improve and develop service delivery.
- Experience of identifying and managing risk in line with Inter-Agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures
- Experience of managing and reporting on performance data and targets
- Experience of managing budgets effectively
Desirable
- Experience of working in a rehabilitation/ enablement or intermediate care context
- Experience of managing an Inpatient unit
Skills Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to the HRCH values (Care, Respect, Communication )
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing, including use of financial and activity data, report writing, presenting, negotiating and the use of IT.
- Excellent presentation skills in communicating with and engaging a wide variety of stakeholders, including service users and carers, multi-professional staff groups, partner agencies and senior management
- Ability to collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data for service evaluation and development
- Ability to provide supervision, critical companionship and support to team members
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Knowledge of relevant policies/national strategy
- Act as a decision maker and advocate
- Effective role-modelling
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A relevant professional qualification in nursing, or AHP and current registration with the relevant professional body
- Post-graduate leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Willingness to work towards continued professional and practice development through leadership training/courses
Desirable
- Additional leadership qualification
- Masters level qualification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post-qualification experience of working in a statutory Health or Social Care setting demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility, preferably in a multi-disciplinary team
- Substantial experience of leading, managing and motivating staff including performance management and staff development to deliver high quality results.
- Experience of achieving positive outcomes for patients and through multi-disciplinary and partnership working.
- Experience of managing successful change programmes, working across service areas to improve and develop service delivery.
- Experience of identifying and managing risk in line with Inter-Agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures
- Experience of managing and reporting on performance data and targets
- Experience of managing budgets effectively
Desirable
- Experience of working in a rehabilitation/ enablement or intermediate care context
- Experience of managing an Inpatient unit
Skills Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to the HRCH values (Care, Respect, Communication )
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing, including use of financial and activity data, report writing, presenting, negotiating and the use of IT.
- Excellent presentation skills in communicating with and engaging a wide variety of stakeholders, including service users and carers, multi-professional staff groups, partner agencies and senior management
- Ability to collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data for service evaluation and development
- Ability to provide supervision, critical companionship and support to team members
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Knowledge of relevant policies/national strategy
- Act as a decision maker and advocate
- Effective role-modelling
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
