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Head of Integrated Health and Care (Older People)
(£99,064 - PKC Chief Officer Grade Point 34 - 36hrs per week)(£94,345 - £98,384 - NHS Band 8D Indicative - 37hrs per week)
Council Building, 2 High Street, Perth, PH1 5PH
Applications are now being sought for the permanent post of Head of Integrated Health and Care (Older People) within the Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership.
PKHSCP is a caring, compassionate partnership with great ambition for enabling our people to live life well and achieve the very best outcomes.
We are looking to appoint to the role of Head of Integrated Health & Care (Older People) within a new senior leadership structure to strengthen integration and to meet our ambition of outstanding outcomes for our people.If you can think big and drive our vision forward by leading more creative and innovative solutions to meet current and future challenges, we would love to work with you.
The Head of Integrated Health & Care (Older People) will lead, manage and control an integrated service model which provides safe, high quality, person-centred in-patient and community health and social care services for Older People across Perth and Kinross. You will deliver services for Older People in accordance with the Perth and Kinross Integration Joint Board’s strategic objectives, commissioning, and delivery plans and in line with local and national quality, financial, performance and governance targets. You will be responsible for large budgets for health and social care for Older People and for integrating these to realise a shift in the balance of care from acute to community. A key responsibility is to ensure that services for Older People are designed to meet the needs and profile of our population now and into the future underpinned by an ethos of ambition, integrity, and compassion. You will ensure that this is built around a locality model of Integrated teams, co-designed with and for people with lived experience and communities avoiding a “top down” approach. Strong and effective whole-system collaborative leadership to drive continuous improvement in patient flow for unscheduled health care will be required.
In this role you will also have the lead for Older People Strategy; Carers Strategy; Dementia Strategy; Locality Management; Urgent & Unscheduled Care; and Physical disability.
The HSCP is responsible for approximately 2000 staff and in addition commissions over £70million of social care services. The combined budget for delegated and hosted services is approximately £280million.
The post holder will be based at Perth & Kinross Council in 2 High Street, Perth with some capacity for hybrid working. The ability to travel across the large geographical area of Perth & Kinross for business is required.
Closing date 16th June 2024. Interviews will be held on 25th & 26th June 2024
The Individual
https://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/14157/Jobs-and-careers.
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