Service Manager – Urgent Care Pathway

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are excited to be able to advertise for an experienced Service Manager within the Bay Network for the Urgent Care Pathway with a focus on Initial Response Service (IRS) and Home Based Treatment Teams (HBTT). We are looking for a highly motivated, pro-active individual who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, lots of initiative who is looking for their next challenge.

Main duties of the job

You will need to have a strong commitment to improving performance and targets whilst remaining passionate about quality. You will be expected to demonstrate the required management skills, along with the desire to develop teams to provide excellent patient centred services.

The post will be based within the Bay Network which comprises of sites across Lancaster and Morecambe, South Cumbria and Barrow areas. The location of the post will be flexible with but an expectation you will have a physical presence in all 3 teams.

We want to recruit people to the service who share our values and are confident in their ability to contribute to the demonstrated effectiveness and effectiveness of our services.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Date posted

16 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-BAY596-MT

Job locations

TBC

Lancaster

LA1 4JJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to relevant master's degree or prepared to study towards masters with demonstrable equivalent experience.
Participation in continuing professional development to improve and update specialist knowledge

Knowledge

Essential

Detailed understanding and experience of the operation healthcare services and performance targets
Knowledge and experience of risk assessment and management

Experience

Essential

Experience of operational management
Experience of managing a budget.
Experience of successful project management.

Skills

Essential

Well-developed analytical & problem solving skills
IT literate with well-developed skills for the use and application of information technology systems including file management, safe and effective internet use, Outlook, Word processing, PowerPoint, Access and Excel.
Well-developed organisational and people skills to facilitate working with clinical teams

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to relevant master's degree or prepared to study towards masters with demonstrable equivalent experience.
Participation in continuing professional development to improve and update specialist knowledge

Knowledge

Essential

Detailed understanding and experience of the operation healthcare services and performance targets
Knowledge and experience of risk assessment and management

Experience

Essential

Experience of operational management
Experience of managing a budget.
Experience of successful project management.

Skills

Essential

Well-developed analytical & problem solving skills
IT literate with well-developed skills for the use and application of information technology systems including file management, safe and effective internet use, Outlook, Word processing, PowerPoint, Access and Excel.
Well-developed organisational and people skills to facilitate working with clinical teams

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.