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SalaryLansdowne Secure Children's Home in East Sussex is a national provision offering support and care for male and female young people aged between 10 and 17 years old whose behaviours present a significant risk of harm to themselves or to others. Young people who benefit from this provision are likely to have complex needs requiring on-going assessment; high levels of supervision; multi-agency services; and a period of stability in an environment, which is conducive to therapeutic interventions.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an exceptional person with the ability to transform the Integrated Health and Wellbeing Service delivery within Lansdowne Secure Children's Home, ensuring that young people have access to the services and support they need to meet their physical, mental and emotional Health and Wellbeing needs.
We are looking for an Integrated Service Manager with a specialist public health or children's mental health nursing background and the ability to provide the leadership and management required to support a multidisciplinary team to deliver an innovative and transformed emotional Health and Wellbeing Service.
This exciting post gives you the opportunity to create and lead a culture within the service where quality improvement, transformational change, staff engagement, and service development are driven by service user and staff experience, quality and governance.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for a defined cluster of teams providing high quality services within the resources available. These teams are multi-disciplinary. Key areas of delivery are as follows:-
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 Health and social care 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, managing specific change projects as required, ensuring customer focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
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
Identify risk and take corrective action in line with trusts integrated governance framework.
To promote and display via personal actions support for the Trust's key policies on Equality and Diversity, Exemplar Employer and use of the recovery orientated approach for people with longer term problems
Deputises for the General Manager and colleagues as required.
Working for our organisation
In return, you will be joining a friendly and forward thinking multi-disciplinary team, who are dedicated to providing high quality services which complement the work done by our wider CAMHS colleagues. In addition to the full package of benefits that working in the NHS brings, you will receive tailored support for your personal and professional development, and regular supervision.
Our offer is for a career not just a job, based in East Sussex. You would work within a team and a trust focused on delivering the best care possible to the community whilst being committed to the wellbeing of its staff. Rated overall as 'good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and as outstanding' for being caring, we are a trust that makes a difference.
This is a permanent, full time post (37.5 hours per week). The job requires travel across Sussex.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be successful in this role, you will bring
- A passion and commitment to the delivery of high quality health services within CAMHS.
- Compassionate and flexible leadership approach
- Commitment to staff wellbeing and development
- High personal resilience and a can-do attitude
- Tenacity to innovate and develop solutions to the challenges we face.
- Experience of quality improvement and project management
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- A track record of meeting key performance objectives within a community health setting
- Proven ability to successfully lead multi-disciplinary clinical teams
- Clinical experience would be beneficial either of working in CAMHS or crisis teams
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
- Clinical/post graduate management qualification to masters 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.
- Experience of working in a CAMHS or Children's Services Team.
- Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans.
- Experience of managing a diverse practitioner team (multi-site).
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
