Band 8B Lead Matron

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

The closing date is 02 June 2024

Job summary

Be qualified to work clinically as: A Registered AHP/RNLD within the NMC/HCPC Code of Professional Conduct.

Do you want to be a Lead Matron in a service where service users/families say

Her skills in seeing the issues/hearing requests/putting plans into action/speed of delivery and additional support

Loved him felt he understood - psychiatry

Welcoming kindness helpful and very friendly with warm welcoming smile! I am very grateful

We know we are so lucky to have a LD nurse who goes above and beyond for J and people like J. The NHS aren't praised enough for the good work they do for people, in challenging times when it is in crisis and broken in so many areas. Well today I am, and I'm sure G will agree, that it's worth saving for people like you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical operational management and clinical improvement services within the Division. This includes overseeing clinical effectiveness to ensure high quality care across the Division.

The Learning Disability Service is about to undergo a transformation in service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

Participate in design and development of new services that meet needs of service users and commissioners.

Operational

Lead on the development and delivery of Divisional clinical business plan and responsible for developing Quality & Equality impact assessments.

Strategic & Enabling Leadership

Provide value based leadership across the care pathway, services and systems in complex and challenging situations.

Influence how joined up future healthcare systems are developed.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

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Date posted

07 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,972 to £68,525 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

820-6182953-LD-B

Job locations

The Greenfields

Brooklands Road

Kings Norton

B30 3QY


Job description

Job responsibilities

Attention is drawn to the responsibility of all employees to participate in and be responsible for:

Performance Management

Health & Safety at Work

Equal Opportunities

Safeguarding

Smoking -The Trust operates a No Smoking policy.

Mobility - Whilst the postholder will be based at The Greenfields this is a Trust wide appointment and travel around the Trust may be required.

Confidentiality - Your attention is drawn to the confidential nature of information collected within the National Health Service. The unauthorised use or disclosures of patient or other personal information is regarded as gross misconduct and will be subject to the Trusts Disciplinary Procedure and, in the case of both computerised and paper-based information, could result in a prosecution for an offence or action for civil damages under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Dignity in Care Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) is committed to providing dignity in care for all our patients and service users across the Trust.

Infection Prevention and Control -The Trust is committed to minimising any risks of healthcare associated infection to patients, visitors and staff. All employees must attend Infection Prevention and Control training as required for their post.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical operational management and clinical improvement Services within the Division. The post holder will be clinically accountable for services within the Division.

The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness of all services within the Division, ensuring that response to Complaints, Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback are managed and form part of continued improvement across the Division. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to oversee and deliver high quality and effective care across the Division.The post holder will work in liaison with the Group Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for all services within the Division. The postholder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes(CIP) as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s) providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these. Where required the post holder will support the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s). The post holder will lead on the recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.

In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service to ensure smooth delivery patient care and service(s) as well as addressing any clinical delivery issues impacting on service deliverability.

See Main duties of the job above and for a full list of duties and responsibilities see full Job Description

Job description

Job responsibilities

Attention is drawn to the responsibility of all employees to participate in and be responsible for:

Performance Management

Health & Safety at Work

Equal Opportunities

Safeguarding

Smoking -The Trust operates a No Smoking policy.

Mobility - Whilst the postholder will be based at The Greenfields this is a Trust wide appointment and travel around the Trust may be required.

Confidentiality - Your attention is drawn to the confidential nature of information collected within the National Health Service. The unauthorised use or disclosures of patient or other personal information is regarded as gross misconduct and will be subject to the Trusts Disciplinary Procedure and, in the case of both computerised and paper-based information, could result in a prosecution for an offence or action for civil damages under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Dignity in Care Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) is committed to providing dignity in care for all our patients and service users across the Trust.

Infection Prevention and Control -The Trust is committed to minimising any risks of healthcare associated infection to patients, visitors and staff. All employees must attend Infection Prevention and Control training as required for their post.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical operational management and clinical improvement Services within the Division. The post holder will be clinically accountable for services within the Division.

The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness of all services within the Division, ensuring that response to Complaints, Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback are managed and form part of continued improvement across the Division. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to oversee and deliver high quality and effective care across the Division.The post holder will work in liaison with the Group Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for all services within the Division. The postholder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes(CIP) as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s) providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these. Where required the post holder will support the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s). The post holder will lead on the recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.

In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service to ensure smooth delivery patient care and service(s) as well as addressing any clinical delivery issues impacting on service deliverability.

See Main duties of the job above and for a full list of duties and responsibilities see full Job Description

Person Specification

Qualifications / training Qualifications / training

Essential

  • Masters Degree level education or equivalent (e.g post-graduate diploma and experience)
  • Membership/Registration of relevant professional body RNLD of nursing or other AHP Registration
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

Essential

  • Significant clinical experience in learning disability
  • Extensive relevant experience working at senior management level
  • Extensive experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets
  • Extensive relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring
  • Significant experience of line managing staff/teams
  • Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees
  • Significant experience of utilisinge PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues

Skills/knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of local health economy
  • Knowledge of current NHS Framework
  • Comprehensive understanding of quality agenda for NHS
  • Highly developed clinical knowledge in relevant professional area
  • Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
  • Proven ability to deliver service redesign involving multiple professional disciplines; understanding of improvement methodology and project evaluation processes
  • Ability to work on own initiative without frequent supervision.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with clinical and managerial Teams
  • Ability to work under significant pressure and to demanding timescales
  • Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Self motivated
  • Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines.
  • Willingness to learn and share knowledge.
  • Strong influencing and persuasion skills
  • Proven leadership skills; strong, inclusive leadership style

Other job requirements

Essential

  • Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area
Person Specification

Qualifications / training Qualifications / training

Essential

  • Masters Degree level education or equivalent (e.g post-graduate diploma and experience)
  • Membership/Registration of relevant professional body RNLD of nursing or other AHP Registration
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

Essential

  • Significant clinical experience in learning disability
  • Extensive relevant experience working at senior management level
  • Extensive experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets
  • Extensive relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring
  • Significant experience of line managing staff/teams
  • Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees
  • Significant experience of utilisinge PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues

Skills/knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of local health economy
  • Knowledge of current NHS Framework
  • Comprehensive understanding of quality agenda for NHS
  • Highly developed clinical knowledge in relevant professional area
  • Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
  • Proven ability to deliver service redesign involving multiple professional disciplines; understanding of improvement methodology and project evaluation processes
  • Ability to work on own initiative without frequent supervision.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with clinical and managerial Teams
  • Ability to work under significant pressure and to demanding timescales
  • Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Self motivated
  • Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines.
  • Willingness to learn and share knowledge.
  • Strong influencing and persuasion skills
  • Proven leadership skills; strong, inclusive leadership style

Other job requirements

Essential

  • Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

The Greenfields

Brooklands Road

Kings Norton

B30 3QY


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

The Greenfields

Brooklands Road

Kings Norton

B30 3QY


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Divisional Director

Hardip Deu

hardip.deu@nhs.net

01214663900

Date posted

07 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,972 to £68,525 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

820-6182953-LD-B

Job locations

The Greenfields

Brooklands Road

Kings Norton

B30 3QY


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