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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
Service Development Manager
Closed for applications on: 8-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Edward Jenner Court
- Address
- 1010 Pioneer Avenue
- Town
- Brockworth
- Postcode
- Gl3 4AW
- Major / Minor Region
- Gloucestershire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (hybrid working - office, home, and locality venues)
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Service Development Manager
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced professional to join our Strategy and Partnership Directorate. Working alongside other Service Development Manager’s (SDM), each with a strategic lead area, the focus on this role is to support the development of integrated locality working. You will drive transformational change at a locality and neighbourhood level with our partners and organisational colleagues, support the delivery of the Trust’s wider strategy, and support change activities that improve the care and health for the people of Gloucestershire.
The role has a strategic priority specific focus, to lead and support the delivery of two of the Trust’s Strategic Objectives – Better Care and Sustainability. Integrating localised services, tackling health inequality, and reducing the NHS’s carbon footprint are some of the biggest challenges facing NHS Trusts in the UK. This role will provide key strategic support to ensure the Trust has robust plans in place and is delivering identified priorities and objectives.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
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As an SDM, you will play a vital role in developing the integrated locality partnership agenda, working on key priorities for both the Trust and key stakeholders to help shape and deliver on transformational change priorities across designated localities. This role currently supports the Stroud and Berkley Vale and the Cotswolds localities. You will act as the GHC key point of contact to the internal and external stakeholders, including wider health and care system, working with Integrated Care System (ICS) leads.
In this role you will provide specific professional leadership, support, advice, and facilitation of service development on the Trust’s Better Care and Sustainability strategic agenda across all GHC provision through the application of a range of service development, change management, and improvement methodologies. You will have, or be able to develop, an in-depth knowledge of health inequality and personalised care agendas, placed-based integrated care, sustainability agenda and green plan, and clinical/professional best practice and use this knowledge and experience to facilitate transformation and change plans.
Relationship management, system convening, and networking are key components of the work for this role. You will develop positive relationships with professionals, system partners and with people who use services, carers and families encouraging co-production at all levels.
Working for our organisation
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
- 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
- 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
- 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
- 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a team member in the Partnerships Team, you will be managed by the Head of Partnerships and will work closely with GHC Director and Deputy of Strategy and Partnerships on the delivery of the Trust’s strategic priorities. The S&P Directorate includes roles which fulfil a wide range of functions that align with the directorate portfolio and Trust strategic goals.
The directorate structure is organised across three distinct yet integrated team, as follows:
- Partnership Team
- Quality Improvement (QI) Team
- Transformation Team
The main functions of the directorate are predominantly enabling the Trust to develop and deliver its strategy, but alongside that we have several key areas which are underpinned by the high value we place on working together with the people and communities we serve, across corporate and operational services, and with our local and national system partners.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we can work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
- Free car parking at many of our sites
- 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
- A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
- A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Social Workers, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
- Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
- Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
- Recognition and long service awards
- Fast Track physiotherapy
- Our Wellbeing line
- Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level, and additional knowledge acquired via formal training and accreditation at master’s level, or equivalent specialist knowledge acquired through experience.
Desirable criteria
- A Health or Social Care qualification
Personal skills abilities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and report on complex information
- Ability to independently and creatively problem solve
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions to resolve problems in relation to service delivery
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders, some at very senior level
- Ability to interpret national policy for implementation
- Ability to develop and deliver training sessions to a range of stakeholders
- Ability to move between the bigger picture and the detail
- Ability to work flexibly across Gloucestershire including ability to travel between Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust sites as required
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current health and social care policy and appreciate the implications of this on service re-design and engagement
- Experience of supporting change initiatives
- Experience of working at senior level in a health and care setting.
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Experience of applying Quality Improvement methodologies
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Mackie
- Job title
- Head of Partnerships
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816224564
- Additional information
If you would like to know more about this role please feel free to email Julie Mackie to arrange a telephone or MSTeams conversation.
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