Head of Service All Age NHS Continuing Healthcare

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board

The closing date is 28 February 2025

Job summary

The post holder will use their expert knowledge lead a multi professional team to provide high quality, safe and personalised care for our population in line with key standards and commitments.The post holder will ensure that the NHS CHC team have the appropriatecompassionate, inclusive and value based leadership and, are professionally managed, clinically supervised and developed to ensure that we retain our valuable workforce to deliver the outcomes for the population they serve. In addition that we make best use of NHS resources and understand the needs of the population to ensure we commission and provide the appropriate care. The post holder must have a genuine passion for reducing health and social inequalities and ensuring inclusive practice at all times.

If you have operational and/or clinical leadership experience in continuing healthcare , it would be great to hear from you. The outcomes of these decisions can change lives and provide individuals with a level of self-sufficiency and dignity that they may not otherwise have. That's why a key NHS CHC value is working together for patients for holistic, person-centred care.The journey we are on is an exciting one: we'll know we're succeeding when our staff and our communities can feel and see the difference.

Main duties of the job

This roles leads on quality and patient safety and, has a key role to develop and maintain effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety and quality of services. This role will ensure that appropriate governance processes for oversight are in place and how learning responses are translated into improvement and integrated into wider improvement work across the ICB.The Head of Service - All Age NHS Continuing Health Care will ensurecompliance and contribute to the ICB plans and efficiency targets to ensure robust management of the All Age NHS Continuing Health Care CHC and workforce budget and financial plans. This will contribute to minimise financial risk to the ICB whilst meeting key quality standards and key performance indicators.The Head of Service - All Age NHS Continuing Health Care will lead on continuous service improvement through the use of resources such as data intelligence and feedback from patients, their families / carers and the system workforce.

About us

Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System brings together local NHS, councils and voluntary, community and faith sectors to better serve our communities. With a population of circa 1.55 million, our vision is for BSOL to be the healthiest place to live and work, driving equity in life chances and health outcomes for everyone. For an chance to be part of the fantastic opportunity we have as an Integrated Care System, apply for this role today.

As a member of our system you will actively demonstrate system values in all that you do. You will be driven to address health inequalities and create an environment that is inclusive for all people.

In return NHS Birmingham and Solihull can offer you the opportunity to thrive and develop in a team that is supportive, ambitious and inclusive. You will have plenty of opportunities to build your skills and experience, with a chance to work with colleagues across our five Provider Trusts, two Local Authorities, voluntary organisations, Integrated Care Board (ICB) and NHS England to truly effect change and add value.

We know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation and are committed to challenging discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity for all, being a fair and inclusive employer, and creating a place of work in which all of us feel we belong.

Date posted

13 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£74,290 to £85,601 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

Reference number

529-6981058

Job locations

Alpha Tower

Suffolk Street Queensway

Birmingham

B1 1TT

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Education

Essential

Educated to master's degree level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in Continuing Health Care specialty
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development

Desirable

NMC / HCPC Professional registration

Knowledge

Essential

Significant demonstratable experience with line management responsibility at a senior level
Proven success of change management, including ability to motivate staff
Evidence of clear understanding and experience of safeguarding process, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
Evidence of matrix working in an organisation
Extensive working knowledge of National Framework for NHS Continuing HealthCare and Funded Nursing Care and its application in practice
IT literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Outlook, Word and Excel
Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Demonstratable knowledge of quality improvement methodology and be able to translate this to practice

Person Specification

Education

Essential

Educated to master's degree level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in Continuing Health Care specialty
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development

Desirable

NMC / HCPC Professional registration

Knowledge

Essential

Significant demonstratable experience with line management responsibility at a senior level
Proven success of change management, including ability to motivate staff
Evidence of clear understanding and experience of safeguarding process, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
Evidence of matrix working in an organisation
Extensive working knowledge of National Framework for NHS Continuing HealthCare and Funded Nursing Care and its application in practice
IT literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Outlook, Word and Excel
Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Demonstratable knowledge of quality improvement methodology and be able to translate this to practice

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).

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