Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Band 8b Group Clinical Manager - UCR/Virtual Wards

The closing date is 01 August 2025

Job summary

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the integrated Care Service for an 8b Group Clinical Manager, the post holder will be responsible for leading the clinical operational management and clinical improvement of Urgent community response and Virtual Wards Services within the Division and working with the Community Care Collaborative with supporting the development of the Locality Strategy as well as the NHS England Urgent & Emergency Care plan with a focus on service delivery in achieving improvements within the UEC pathways that will have the biggest impact on urgent and emergency care services. Being accountable to the communities we serve with a focus on enhancing the number of patients receiving care through the services

Main duties of the job

The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness and clinical governance of Virtual wards and Urgent community Response service in line with local and national quality standards. Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback will be managed and form part of continued improvement across the Group. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to oversee and deliver high quality and effective care across the Group.

The post holder will work in liaison with the Group Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for all services within the Group. The post holder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes for their respective areas, as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s) providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these. Where required the post holder will support to the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s).

In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service to ensure smooth delivery patient care and service(s) as well as addressing any clinical delivery issues impacting on service deliverability.

About us

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Be Part of Our Team... BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Details

Date posted

18 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

820-7275727-COM

Job locations

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Moseley

B13 8JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness and clinical governance of Virtual wards and Urgent community Response service in line with local and national quality standards. Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback will be managed and form part of continued improvement across the Group. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to oversee and deliver high quality and effective care across the Group.

The post holder will work in liaison with the Group Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for all services within the Group. The post holder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes for their respective areas, as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s) providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these. Where required the post holder will support to the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s). The post holder will be a visible leader and will lead on the recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.

In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service to ensure smooth delivery patient care and service(s) as well as addressing any clinical delivery issues impacting on service deliverability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness and clinical governance of Virtual wards and Urgent community Response service in line with local and national quality standards. Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback will be managed and form part of continued improvement across the Group. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to oversee and deliver high quality and effective care across the Group.

The post holder will work in liaison with the Group Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for all services within the Group. The post holder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes for their respective areas, as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s) providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these. Where required the post holder will support to the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s). The post holder will be a visible leader and will lead on the recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.

In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service to ensure smooth delivery patient care and service(s) as well as addressing any clinical delivery issues impacting on service deliverability.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Significant relevant experience working at senior management level
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive relevant experience working at senior management level
  • Extensive experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets
  • Extensive relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring
  • Significant experience of line managing staff/teams
  • Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees
  • Significant experience of utilising PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of local health economy
  • Knowledge of current NHS Framework
  • Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
  • Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
  • Ability to work on own initiative without frequent supervision
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with clinical and managerial Teams
  • Understanding a full range of improvement methodology techniques, including process mapping, capacity and demand modelling and sustainability processing
  • Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention
  • Ability to work under significant pressure and to demanding timescales
Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Significant relevant experience working at senior management level
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive relevant experience working at senior management level
  • Extensive experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets
  • Extensive relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring
  • Significant experience of line managing staff/teams
  • Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees
  • Significant experience of utilising PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of local health economy
  • Knowledge of current NHS Framework
  • Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
  • Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
  • Ability to work on own initiative without frequent supervision
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with clinical and managerial Teams
  • Understanding a full range of improvement methodology techniques, including process mapping, capacity and demand modelling and sustainability processing
  • Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention
  • Ability to work under significant pressure and to demanding timescales

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Moseley

B13 8JL


Employer's website

https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Moseley

B13 8JL


Employer's website

https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Interim Deputy Director

Emma Glass

e.glass@nhs.net

07702141374

Details

Date posted

18 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

820-7275727-COM

Job locations

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Moseley

B13 8JL


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