Job summary
Are you passionate about improving care of Adults with Learning Disabilities?
Are you an experienced manager in health or social care?
This is an opportunity to lead a joint health and social care Community Adult learning Disability Service.
Main duties of the job
Lead in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care across MK CTALD and ensure that staff have a working knowledge of local, national policies and legislation which govern current service provision.
Work with partner agencies (statutory and third sector) to provide effective strategies to proactively manage the care of individuals with complex needs.
To work in a creative way to ensure continuous development and new initiatives in the ways of working. The post-holder will have leadership and operational responsibility for managing MKCTALD.
To oversee the provision of quality evidence-based practice/interventions, support, and care for users across all the MK CTALD service.
The post holder will be expected to offer overall professional clinical leadership and management to all leads within the team that make up the MK CTALD service, to manage and coordinate staff and clinical activity and have overall responsibility for the professional development and supervision of practice.
To provide specialist practical advice on the care and clinical management of users of the services and to support staff, other agencies, and other statutory services to provide integrated services to enable improved health and well-being outcomes for service users.
To work on maintaining the high standards of performance and care. To ensure sufficient staffing levels across the current working patterns.
About us
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To operationally manage MK CTALD; working effectively within the multi-disciplinary setting, holding self and colleagues to account appropriately and demonstrating personal commitment to integrated (managerial/professional) leadership.
To achieve an agreed set of health and social care performance targets.
To provide services within the agreed financial resources and achieve all financial targets, including cost efficiency savings ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
To contribute in the planning and delivery of service objectives, managing specific change projects as required, ensuring customer focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
To respond to Serious Incidents, complaints and communications, ensuring timely and thorough investigation, effective communication of recommendations and closely monitoring actions to ensure they are fully implemented.
To identify risk and take action in line with the Trusts and City Councils governance framework.
To promote and display via personal actions support for the Trusts key policies on Equality and Diversity, Exemplar Employer and use of the Strength Based/Person Centred approach.
To forge links with specialist mental health services, social care and the third sector to enable a better understanding and links to all services available.
To closely liaise with GPs, primary care, service users, carers and commissioners.
To act as a source of specialist knowledge, support and advice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To operationally manage MK CTALD; working effectively within the multi-disciplinary setting, holding self and colleagues to account appropriately and demonstrating personal commitment to integrated (managerial/professional) leadership.
To achieve an agreed set of health and social care performance targets.
To provide services within the agreed financial resources and achieve all financial targets, including cost efficiency savings ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
To contribute in the planning and delivery of service objectives, managing specific change projects as required, ensuring customer focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
To respond to Serious Incidents, complaints and communications, ensuring timely and thorough investigation, effective communication of recommendations and closely monitoring actions to ensure they are fully implemented.
To identify risk and take action in line with the Trusts and City Councils governance framework.
To promote and display via personal actions support for the Trusts key policies on Equality and Diversity, Exemplar Employer and use of the Strength Based/Person Centred approach.
To forge links with specialist mental health services, social care and the third sector to enable a better understanding and links to all services available.
To closely liaise with GPs, primary care, service users, carers and commissioners.
To act as a source of specialist knowledge, support and advice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/ diploma level
- Relevant professional qualification and professional registration (e.g NMC, HCPC, Social Work England)
- Full driving license and use of a car for business purposes
Desirable
- Post Graduate management training/qualification desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing health/social care services
- Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services
- Experience of project management and imaginative planning
- Experience of managing a diverse practitioner team (multi-sites).
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
Desirable
- Significant experience of Learning Disability Services
- Experience of modernising services without additional resources
- Lived experience of mental health issues
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
- Ability to present information clearly
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives
- Able to hold professionals and peers to account
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and nonclinical risks
- Good project management skills and the ability to see through tasks to their successful conclusion within timescales and budgets
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and financial information, excellent numerical and presentational skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/ diploma level
- Relevant professional qualification and professional registration (e.g NMC, HCPC, Social Work England)
- Full driving license and use of a car for business purposes
Desirable
- Post Graduate management training/qualification desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing health/social care services
- Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services
- Experience of project management and imaginative planning
- Experience of managing a diverse practitioner team (multi-sites).
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
Desirable
- Significant experience of Learning Disability Services
- Experience of modernising services without additional resources
- Lived experience of mental health issues
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
- Ability to present information clearly
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives
- Able to hold professionals and peers to account
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and nonclinical risks
- Good project management skills and the ability to see through tasks to their successful conclusion within timescales and budgets
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and financial information, excellent numerical and presentational skills
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).
