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It's an exciting time to join our Community Therapy Teams. If you're an ambitious, proactive, and experienced individual looking to be part of a supportive team and use your expert skills to provide excellent community care, we'd love to hear from you. Our aim is to maximise opportunities for the people living in our communities to be as independent as possible in what matters to them, living full and active lives within their family circles, social networks, and the workplace.
We have an exciting opportunity for an Operational Team Lead in our West Community Therapy Team to come and work in the service delivering the aim above via holistic, personalised, therapeutic care. You will work as part of well-established wider Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across our local communities, where you will provide support across both proactive community rehabilitation and urgent care pathways. Our teams work flexibly to provide a seven-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm.
Our Trust and leadership teams are committed to supporting your work/life balance via flexible working and tailored support to help you advance your leadership skills in style that suits you, your health and wellbeing and your future career aspirations. This is an ideal opportunity to bring your skills and develop them in a flexible, supportive, and positive community service.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will provide operational leadership, ensuring effective governance and support for staff working within the service. Operational duties will include overseeing the service budget, safe rostering of your staff to cover service demand and performing line management duties in line with Trust policy.
Working with the clinical leads, you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. This will include reporting and managing incidents, and analysing data to monitor performance. You will develop key partnerships with colleagues to ensure effective working of the whole system.
You will have varied communication styles for strong leadership and multidisciplinary working. It will be your responsibility to ensure staff feel informed and to represent your team at a senior management level. You will be report directly to the Clinical Service Manager who will support you in your role.
Your experience of confident leadership while promoting a team philosophy of supporting reablement focused care will help you excel in this role. We will support you to develop your leadership skills through internal and external programmes.
About us
Why work for us?
- positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly
- Rated 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients' homes and in our community hospitals
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.
- Supportive team environments
- Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Clinical Service manager, Kate woods 07747717175
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification
- Currently registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Post registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent
Desirable
- Recognised leadership qualification
- Mentoring course or equivalent
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge and skills within clinical area
- Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
- Able to use advanced reasoning and assessment skills in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions
- Able to mentor, supervise and develop other professions
- Able to work in partnership and collaboration with other professionals in other services and challenge and negotiate with them as needed
Other Requirements
Essential
- Car driver
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
- Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bicentennial Building
Terminus Road
Chichester
PO19 8EZ
Employer's website
https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
