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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
About
We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Service Manager
Closed for applications on: 7-Nov-2023 08:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 7-Nov-2023 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Chanctonbury Building
- Address
- Swandean
- Town
- Worthing
- Postcode
- BN13 3EP
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: on call requirement
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Fulltime)
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AFC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
We are currently in the process of Transforming Mental Health Services in Sussex, to enable improved access to services that are dynamic and sustainable for the future. We are looking for an applicant with experience of staff management, service improvement, performance management along with a commitment to evidenced - based practice and delivery of high quality person centred care.
Working closely with the Clinical Operations Manager, Team Leaders and Professional Leads across Adur, Arun and Worthing (Coastal West Sussex), you will have a clear role in offering clinical and managerial leadership, setting and maintaining operational standards, improving outcomes, and prioritising experience for service users, families and carers. You will also be responsible for the provision of line management to staff ensuring contractual requirements are achieved and delivered, and that a learning and supportive culture is always promoted.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate a wide range of experience and ability in operational management including service innovation, partnership working, managing change, recruitment, retention and development of a workforce able to deliver the highest quality care. A track-record of service user / carer involvement and evidence of responsiveness to service user and carer feedback is essential. You will need to be a suitably qualified health professional, and passionate about delivering excellent services.
Advert
- To work effectively within a multidisciplinary setting, holding self and colleagues to account appropriately and demonstrating personal commitment to integrated (managerial/professional) leadership.
- Achieve an agreed set of performance targets.
- 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.
- Respond to Serious Untoward Incidents (SUIs), complaints and communications, ensuring timely and thorough investigation, effective communication of recommendations and closely monitoring actions to ensure they are fully implemented
- To be part of on call manager rota.
Working for our organisation
This is an opportunity to join an organisation which sets a high priority on the development of services which are responsive to service user and carer’s views and to work with dedicated and supportive colleagues. The trust is committed to strong integrated, collaborative leadership between managers and clinicians.
Working here offers continued training and development, variety and a rewarding challenge, plus the benefits of living in Sussex, by the sea, in the beautiful South Downs or in any one of the exciting towns and cities we have to offer.
We’d love you to join our organisation that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with a majority of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Work effectively within the Leadership Team facilitating trust, holding self and colleagues to account appropriately and demonstrating personal commitment to integrated (managerial/professional) leadership.
- Achieve a defined set of performance targets, in accordance with contractual requirements and the performance framework for Monitor, the Care Quality Commission, and other relevant statutory and professional bodies.
- 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 actively contribute in the planning and delivery of the business objectives, service plans and change projects, ensuring customer focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
- Respond to Serious Untoward Incidents (SUIs), complaints and communications, ensuring timely and thorough investigation, disseminating recommendations and monitoring that actions are fully implemented
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience
- Clinical/post graduate management qualification or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 modernising services without additional resources
- 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 site)
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liam Rudden
- Job title
- Clinical Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0055
No longer accepting applications
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