Job summary
The opportunity has arisen to be part of our leadership team within Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust. We are recruiting for two Locality Clinical Manager positions, one for the Central Shropshire locality and the other for Telford. The portfolio's will cover Community Nursing, Therapies and Specialist Nursing Services for each area.
The post holders will be responsible for the dynamic leadership and management across the range of services in their portfolio to ensure safe, high quality, responsive, efficient, and effective delivery in the different settings.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
Shropshire Community Health Trust are looking to recruit motivational, inspiring and innovative leaders who will support the Operational Lead Manager in promoting the vision and contributing to the delivery of the Trust's strategic goals and priorities.
The post holder will need to therefore have a track record of managing high performing teams, transforming services, integration and creating environments in which staff can deliver high quality and safe care empowering patients, their families and carers.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an organisation with a focus on community-based service provision for people of all ages. It is a hugely exciting time within our Trust, as we embark on a range of transformation improvements to the way we work focusing constantly on providing high quality and sustainable community solutions for the people we serve now and in the future.
The successful candidates will need to capitalise upon effective relationships with our partners across the ICB, Acute Care, patients and carers, Social Care, Primary Care and the Third sector to ensure we can work together to provide more high quality, personalised community care that meets the changing needs of our populations.
About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person Specification
Traing and Qualifiactions
Essential
- Degree level qualification in appropriate clinical or non-clinical subject.
- Appropriate Masters qualification or equivalent experience of working across relevant community services in a strategic or operational manager role.
- Evidence of leadership development /professional development.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working across systems in an operational manager role
- Experience of developing services across systems and pathways
- Proven track record as an effective leader/ service manager in health or related environment
- Experience of leading and managing in a crisis
- Experience of leading change successfully with evidence of this change being sustained
- Demonstrable experience of the development, implementation and delivery of successful service improvements informed by patients/family/ carers
- Proven ability to integrate, build and motivate teams to deliver clear outcomes and results to improve the patients/family/ carers experience
- Use of innovation and creativity to redesign and deliver quality improvement based on evidence and best practice, in line with CQC requirements to deliver outstanding care
- Demonstrable success in delivering performance improvement using business skills to interpret and analyse performance data to inform future delivery and recovery where required
- Experience of developing strategic direction and delivery plans for a service(s), establishing clear work priorities, delegating effectively and ensuring the capability to deliver and monitor
- Experience of building successful partnership working arrangements
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- System wide knowledge in a number of areas e.g. health, education, public health, safeguarding, financial management, performance management, joint commissioning acquired through training and proven experience over a number of years
- Good understanding/insight of NHS legislation, SFIs and SO's, employment and health and safety legislation, national standards and service frameworks for care, safeguarding requirements
- Ability to manage resources, staff and budgets effectively; delivering efficiency and reinvestment targets.
- Results and outcome orientated
- Knowledge of clinical governance standards
- Knowledge of benchmarking, research and audit requirements to continuously develop services and improve standards of care
- Ability to introduce systems and process to which enable services to develop in line with governance and risk requirements.
- Transfer acquired leadership skills - ability to adapt and adjust style to meet the needs of a situation
- Well developed leadership skills, tools and techniques in a number of areas outlined within the LQF:
- Change management, political intelligence, influencing, engaging and collaboration, creating a vision, communication (verbal and written), interpersonal skills.
Other
Essential
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
Person Specification
Traing and Qualifiactions
Essential
- Degree level qualification in appropriate clinical or non-clinical subject.
- Appropriate Masters qualification or equivalent experience of working across relevant community services in a strategic or operational manager role.
- Evidence of leadership development /professional development.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working across systems in an operational manager role
- Experience of developing services across systems and pathways
- Proven track record as an effective leader/ service manager in health or related environment
- Experience of leading and managing in a crisis
- Experience of leading change successfully with evidence of this change being sustained
- Demonstrable experience of the development, implementation and delivery of successful service improvements informed by patients/family/ carers
- Proven ability to integrate, build and motivate teams to deliver clear outcomes and results to improve the patients/family/ carers experience
- Use of innovation and creativity to redesign and deliver quality improvement based on evidence and best practice, in line with CQC requirements to deliver outstanding care
- Demonstrable success in delivering performance improvement using business skills to interpret and analyse performance data to inform future delivery and recovery where required
- Experience of developing strategic direction and delivery plans for a service(s), establishing clear work priorities, delegating effectively and ensuring the capability to deliver and monitor
- Experience of building successful partnership working arrangements
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- System wide knowledge in a number of areas e.g. health, education, public health, safeguarding, financial management, performance management, joint commissioning acquired through training and proven experience over a number of years
- Good understanding/insight of NHS legislation, SFIs and SO's, employment and health and safety legislation, national standards and service frameworks for care, safeguarding requirements
- Ability to manage resources, staff and budgets effectively; delivering efficiency and reinvestment targets.
- Results and outcome orientated
- Knowledge of clinical governance standards
- Knowledge of benchmarking, research and audit requirements to continuously develop services and improve standards of care
- Ability to introduce systems and process to which enable services to develop in line with governance and risk requirements.
- Transfer acquired leadership skills - ability to adapt and adjust style to meet the needs of a situation
- Well developed leadership skills, tools and techniques in a number of areas outlined within the LQF:
- Change management, political intelligence, influencing, engaging and collaboration, creating a vision, communication (verbal and written), interpersonal skills.
Other
Essential
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
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).
