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NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.

Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.

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Ref: Senior Clinical Manager Vacancy ID: 6668176

Clinical Practice - Senior Clinical Manager

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Location

Flexible across the Midlands
23 Stephenson Street
b2 4hq
West Yorkshire

Contract type & working pattern

Permanent: 40% office working required
Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Specialty

Nursing and Midwifery

Our Organisation

The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.

As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.

As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage.  We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.

Job overview

We are seeking a credible Senior Clinical Manager with experience of delivering strategic objectives through diverse nursing workforce improvement projects.

Working as part of the Clinical Practice Team the postholder will provide subject matter expertise to support delivery of NHS wide nursing workforce improvement programmes with a particular focus on community nursing programmes.

The successful candidate will ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels through challenging ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior leaders to realign their practice where necessary.

Further, the post holder will oversee the tracking of progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns

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As Senior Clinical Manager, the post holder will:

Facilitate local solutions with NHS providers to support the drive to improve clinical practice to ensure this is allocated to those that need it most.

Identify key local priorities for NHS England in relation to the nursing practice

Support the Assistant Director of Clinical Practice to manage and deliver workforce transformation programmes including reporting on progress and identifying trusts in need of further support within the region.

Work closely with key stakeholders to obtain best practice approaches that can be shared and adopted across the country in relation to workforce transformation

Possess a track record of managing and resolving complex clinical practice issues in large organisations and work with 

senior trust leads to deliver workforce transformation programmes.

Possess experience of working with senior officials in a number of government/civil service organisations to coordinate delivery of policy and/or regulatory programmes.

Report on improvement initiatives across NHS England on occasion to Director level

To support the Director of Nursing for System & Professional Development to successfully achieve delivery of the CNO National Nurse Manifesto.

Working for our organisation

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

  • Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
  • Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
  • Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
  • Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
  • Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

For further details / informal visits contact: Jo Watson [email protected]

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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 master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant evidence of continued professional development
  • Experience in leading and working with subject matter experts to develop diagnostic tools to identify and target support activities
  • Significant experience of developing and delivering support programmes covering leadership and improvement in a healthcare environment
  • Experience leading and managing a portfolio of work in a programme management environment
  • Extensive knowledge of healthcare workforce as a specialist area, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS Improvement, other Arm’s Length Bodies and individual provider and commissioning organisations
  • Proven senior level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment

Skills and Capabilities

Essential criteria
  • Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
  • Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities
  • Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Ability to analyse highly complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
  • Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
  • Ability to understand NHS workforce datasets in detail

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
  • Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
  • Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Watson
Job title
Assistant Director of Nursing & Clinical Practice
Email address
[email protected]
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