Job summary
Due to the substantive IDD Community Service Manager successfully securing a promotion, there is an opportunity for an experienced, talented, and ambitious individual to undertake the role of Service Manager.
Do you have substantial experience working at Band 7 or above, in a Mental Health or Intellectual Developmental Disability service? Intellectual Developmental Disability (IDD) services can offer an opportunity for a substantive Band 8a Service Manager.
This is an opportunity to develop your skills and experience as a strategic manager, leading transformation, through the development of the Intensive Community Assessment & Treatment Teams, Community Learning Disability Teams, Acute & Primary Care Liaison Nurses in line with the Learning Disability & Autism agenda. (Transforming Care 2014)
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be passionate and empowering with admirable communication skills, the ability to enable staff and team leads, whilst being a role model for excellence and continuous improvement. Fundamentally you will ensure that high standards of patient care are delivered
NHCT - Mental Health Specialist Services have an ambitious strategy to deliver excellentcommunity services for service users/patients, their families, and Carers with a learning disability and or autism.
About us
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details and expectations of the role.
This is a fantastic opportunity and Notts Healthcare Trust are proactively working to improve our Equality and Inclusion. If you want to discuss the job role and responsibilities or have questions about
- Reasonable adjustments
- Transferrable skills
- Hybrid working
- Organise a visit, experience the services
then please see the contact details below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details and expectations of the role.
This is a fantastic opportunity and Notts Healthcare Trust are proactively working to improve our Equality and Inclusion. If you want to discuss the job role and responsibilities or have questions about
- Reasonable adjustments
- Transferrable skills
- Hybrid working
- Organise a visit, experience the services
then please see the contact details below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification with relevant clinical professional qualification and substantial experience or equivalent
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Masters level qualification
Training
Essential
- Management Training
- Supervision training
Desirable
- Education/training qualification in specialist mental health
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience at band 7 or above in Mental Health or Learning Disability Services
- Managing budgets experience of the management and monitoring of budgets
- Recruitment and selection, appointing and managing staff
- Managing people, including setting and monitoring objectives against performance. Managing under performance
- Deomonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, the Trusts Equality and Diversity principles and values
- Building effective communication and working relationships with a diverse range of colleagues and agencies.
Desirable
- Undertaking investigations
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of leading on, implementing and monitoring a service development/change initiative
- Experience of actively working as part of an MDT in order to achieve shared goal
- Experience of maintaining quality standards in one's own work and encouraging others to do so in theirs
- Experience of commitment to service user involvement
- Transforming Care agenda & Key Performance indicators to support the achievement of local and national targets
- Awareness of policies and procedures in relation to confidentiality, information sharing and child protection
Desirable
- Experience of managing staff performance and disciplinary issues efficiently.
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Be subject to/undertake DBS checks as required by Trust policy/procedure.
- Full driving license with access to a vehicle
- Ability to participate in on call rota
Skills
Essential
- Sound judgement and decision-making skills
- Plan, organise and manage change
- IT literate
- Excellent verbal, written and report writing skills with the ability to communicate at a high level in the organisation
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Leadership and management skills
- The ability to innovate, problem solve and find creative solutions
- Able to work on own initiative; prioritise and manage workload
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification with relevant clinical professional qualification and substantial experience or equivalent
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Masters level qualification
Training
Essential
- Management Training
- Supervision training
Desirable
- Education/training qualification in specialist mental health
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience at band 7 or above in Mental Health or Learning Disability Services
- Managing budgets experience of the management and monitoring of budgets
- Recruitment and selection, appointing and managing staff
- Managing people, including setting and monitoring objectives against performance. Managing under performance
- Deomonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, the Trusts Equality and Diversity principles and values
- Building effective communication and working relationships with a diverse range of colleagues and agencies.
Desirable
- Undertaking investigations
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of leading on, implementing and monitoring a service development/change initiative
- Experience of actively working as part of an MDT in order to achieve shared goal
- Experience of maintaining quality standards in one's own work and encouraging others to do so in theirs
- Experience of commitment to service user involvement
- Transforming Care agenda & Key Performance indicators to support the achievement of local and national targets
- Awareness of policies and procedures in relation to confidentiality, information sharing and child protection
Desirable
- Experience of managing staff performance and disciplinary issues efficiently.
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Be subject to/undertake DBS checks as required by Trust policy/procedure.
- Full driving license with access to a vehicle
- Ability to participate in on call rota
Skills
Essential
- Sound judgement and decision-making skills
- Plan, organise and manage change
- IT literate
- Excellent verbal, written and report writing skills with the ability to communicate at a high level in the organisation
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Leadership and management skills
- The ability to innovate, problem solve and find creative solutions
- Able to work on own initiative; prioritise and manage workload
Desirable
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).
