Head of Service - Intensive Personalised Support

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ensure the highest quality and standards of support is provided to children and young people/ adults, their families, and a range of other professionals, enabling the child/ young person to continue to live at home.

Undertake reviews of multidisciplinary reports and social care assessments including SEN, risk assessments and utilise other assessment tools as appropriate in conjunction with the child/young person/ adult, family, and other professionals.

Have a key role in the recruitment and ensure that staff are trained to a high standard in service delivery and a range of other areas to ensure competent and high-quality service delivery.

Overseeing the day-to-day management of the IPS team including allocating cases on a daily basis ensuring consistency (rotas, annual leave etc).

Line management of team managers and overall responsibility for effective delivery of multidisciplinary service, ensuring a motivated, empowered and integrated team of committed practitioners including volunteers

Take an active role in the reviewing, monitoring and prioritisation of referrals alongside other team members.

Present fair, balanced feedback/support to staff and family members. Recognise and challenge areas of poor practice and institutionalised culture.

Ensure that all service delivery is reviewed for each young person on a frequent basis.

Disseminate learning from the service to enable other stakeholders to benefit from the service, through building case studies and utilising feedback.

Ensure that all ABL policies and procedures are understood and implemented by staff, to include quality assurance, regulatory, risk frameworks, safeguarding, child protection, criminal records, data protection, HR and health and safety.

Ensure all relevant records in relation to the young people we support, and employees are appropriately maintained and up to date and compiled and delivered as required for/to relevant authorities.

Identify potential problems, acting proactively to avoid service breakdowns, deal with complaints and to mitigate all types of risk through the liaising with parents/ families and other professionals.

Provide on call support and assistance when required, taking part in managers on call on a rota including evenings and weekend distributed fairly amongst management team (paid by daily on call rate).

Work flexibly and adapt to suit the service need.

Lead a multi-disciplinary team: working constructively with the team to ensure good service users care, facilitate effective and safe delivery, continuity of care, ongoing service development and quality service users pathways

Develop and evolve the service, co-produced with service users to continuously meet the changing needs of local people, communities, stakeholders and commissioners

Deliver an outcomes-based service delivery model, achieving and exceeding KPIs, ensuring effective allocation of resources and being responsive to service user / partner / commissioner feedback

Ensure high-quality contract performance across all of its key elements, along with effective reporting and budget management.

.To facilitate co-production regarding implementation and continuous service development

To ensure integrated pathways, avoiding duplication and optimising service user experience

Having a clear understanding of how the service can and should integrate with the rest of the health, care & education system. Work alongside the stakeholder engagement team to ensure all stakeholders are informed and engagedTaking a client and community centred approach to delivery, focused on community assets and supporting the delivery teams to take ownership of their service and be proud of their outcomes

Performance management of service including ensuring activity requirements are meeting contractual requirements and all KPIs are met and exceeded where possible

Financial and budget management and optimised resource allocation across the service

Developing service reports of excellent quality Commissioner reports, performance management reports

Representing the organisation and service at local, regional and national stakeholder and networking events

Managing sub-contractors including service level agreements, finance and performance management

Establish positive and effective relationships with service user representatives, stakeholders and partners

Driving service innovation utilising ABLs continuous improvement system which includes delivery staff in leading innovation and service development supported by specialist leads

Working with clinical, community, social care, educational and statutory stakeholders to deliver safe, effective, person-centred care pathways

Work with the ABL engagement and communications team to implement and continuously develop the communications and marketing strategy and service promotion

Ensure the safe and effective delivery of the service in line with ABLs integrated governance framework

Work as a delivery partner with commissioners, building excellent working relationships, taking an open and honest approach to contractual and performance management and sharing successes and challenges for collective solution focused approaches.

Additional responsibilities

Work collaboratively with other professionals across the organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in health-related field: e.g. Psychology, Mental Health Nursing, Psychodynamic psychiatry

Desirable

• Management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience as a leader in mental health
• 2 + Years Senior Management experience
• Experience of leading and inspiring large teams over 20 staff
• Experience working with commissioners
• Experience of contract and performance management
• Experience of budget management of services over £1m a year
• Demonstrable experience of managing service improvement
• Experience of leading / working within multi-
• disciplinary teams
• Excellent partnership/stakeholder relationship skills
• Understanding of mental health and evidence base
• Demonstrable experience working with one or more of the following
• GP Practices/Primary Care
• Secondary Care
• Schools and Colleges
• VCSE Sector
• Social Care
• Community health
• CAMHS
• 0-19 Children Services
• Excellent people management skills and compassionate leader
• Personable and approachable leader
• Problem solving and solution focused approach
• Excellent literacy skills/BI skills/data understanding

Desirable

• At least 5 years in mental health-related field
• Experience of
• delivery/management of CYP mental health services
• Experience within a commissioning environment
• Experience of supply chain management
• Management qualification
• Experience developing
• programmes of Communications and marketing campaigns
• Demonstrable experience of leading staff development
• programmes
• Knowledge of safeguarding in community health setting
• Understanding of mental health and evidence base
• Understanding of clinical and operational governance
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of techniques for community health engagement techniques
• Demonstrable knowledge of behaviour change theory and practice
• Demonstrable experience of Asset Based Community Development

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.

Employer details

Employer name

ABL Health Ltd

Address

71 Redgate Way

Farnworth

Bolton

BL4 0JL

Employer's website

https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)