NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
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Goodmayes, London, Greater London
Intermediate Care Services Manager
Overview
Job Description
The role: An excellent opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and highly organised professional to work within the Acute and Rehabilitation directorate as the Intermediate Care Community Services Manager. This role offers the chance to work with, and lead, predominantly the Intensive Rehabilitation Service as well as the Community Treatment Team. The successful candidate will provide senior management support to colleagues ensuring effective clinical delivery of patient care whilst maintaining quality, and meeting performance indicators and financial targets. This role requires an individual who can provide strong leadership to secure the delivery of highly organised, well planned and effective Intermediate Care services. Within this role; you will work alongside an existing 8B clinician within the division, to support the assistant director for Intermediate Care. The successful post holder will be able to help with the development of strategic direction for the services in line with national policies and lead on change management in the implementation of service development. You will help to create a culture in which innovation can flourish and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver high quality services and patient care. The successful candidate will support the continued partnership working with our local authority and acute partners to ensure patient centred, dynamic healthcare provision is provided. Organisational Context: The acute and rehabilitation directorate incorporates a range of intermediate care services within physical health to include Neurological Rehabilitation, General Rehabilitation including early supported discharge through intensive rehabilitation and crisis support services. The services cover the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering. Within the Trust we work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care where we are committed to delivering the best care for our patients. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values. Within NELFT we can offer excellent work - life balance and benefits including: * NHS pension * Close transport links into London * Opportunity for service development and audit and innovation * Flexibility within our 7 day working services * Agile working devices to support community based working * High cost area supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum of 3,483 to a max of 4,439) * Salary Sacrifice car scheme * Childcare support and vouchers The main responsibilities of the post holder are: * To deliver effective operational and clinical leadership and direction to the service leads and multi-disciplinary teams. * To support and develop the strategic direction, including the development of new patient pathways, for the services in line with national policies and locally identified health needs. * To manage a range of processes and systems, across the service to support the effective running of the service and patient pathways, ensuring harmonisation of quality care delivery across the service areas. * To lead the Learning and Development plan for services and ensure that developmental requirements are in place for all staff in line with the knowledge and skills framework. To deliver robust financial management in line with Directorate and Trust targets, including Cost Improvement Programmes, ensuring services are cost effective and delivered within budget. For further details / informal visits contact: If you are interested in coming to work for NELFT and meet our criteria we would we would welcome your application. At NELFT we set very high standards to ensure we provide quality services. We require prospective employees to carry out an online literacy and numeracy test, equivalent to NVQ Level 2. For more information regarding our assessments, please visit our website. If you are shortlisted, invited for interview and successfully offered the post, you will be required to undertake an assessment for these skills during the pre-employment checks. Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham Essex This post also attracts payment for High Cost A