Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £53755.00 to £60504.00
Date posted: 18th October 2024
Closing date: 3rd November 2024
Our professional responsibility is to reduce the risk of infection to others as far as possible. Getting vaccinated against diseases that can be passed person-to-person in healthcare settings is part of this responsibility. The Trust will provide advice, guidance and support on vaccinations and access to vaccinations where requested.
Job Description:
Support the OPMH service in the development and implementation of the service pathways and specification.
Support the implementation of evidence-based practice within OPMH Community Services.
Support Data Quality within the OPMH Directorate.
Be responsible for implementing performance management arrangements for the locality.
Be responsible for the practice leadership support to the directorate community practice leads.
Be responsible with the Directorate Management team for the management of directorate resources to deliver services which meet the required financial, performance and quality standards.
Support the delivery of service plans to specification and agreed development objectives.
Ensure that services are delivered by practitioners with the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to provide and receive highly complex/sensitive information and data which they will need to share with a wide range of stakeholders. The post holder will require good persuasive and motivational skills and will need to be able to demonstrate highly developed communication, written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Be able to demonstrate highly developed negotiating skills in what may be difficult, sometimes confrontational situations.
Ensure dissemination of best practice, productive and positive team working with senior management colleagues within the Directorate and Trust as required. This includes an emphasis on positive relationships between all staff involved in providing care and those providing support services and also on a culture of accessibility, open communication, mutual support and effective challenge.
Be responsible for maintaining effective communication with their professional peers in the wider health and social care community.
Maintain close and effective communication with local/national bodies, partner agencies, senior management colleagues and all professional staff. This includes the prompt and effective dissemination of information about trust policy and performance information about the quality and quantity of services.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part-time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent.
* Post-qualification training or equivalent experience applicable to the delivery of Mental Health Services.
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
* Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.
* Management Qualification.
Skills & Abilities
* Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate clearly and confidently to a range of staff and audiences.
* Able to present highly complex information logically and concisely both verbally and in writing.
* Able to form positive relationships with staff at all levels, with Partner Organisations and people who use our services etc.
* Good numeracy as well as organisational and literacy skills.
* Able to understand and evaluate very complex problems quickly and in consultation with others.
* Able to reach balanced and mature judgements in the face of considerable adversity and complexity. Innovative and creative thinker.
* Supervisory skills.
* Ability to manage own time and that of the teams.
* Ability to work flexibly.
* Excellent organisational and planning skills.
* Ability to lead teams and projects as well as work as a part of the same.
Experience
* Working knowledge of the NHS and Local Government policies relating to Mental Health together with a good knowledge of principal policy and financial determinants.
* Working Knowledge of National strategy relating to the profession, including pre and post registration, revalidation and CPD requirements for the professional group.
* Excellent leadership skills.
* Good knowledge of computer office applications, word, excel, power point.
* Management Experience in the delivery of Mental Health and/or related healthcare services demonstrating effective track record of managing complex services and large budgets.
* Experience of operational management.
* Experience of senior public sector management (NHS and/or Local Government) demonstrating effective track record of managing complex services and large budgets.
* Demonstrable Experience of identifying and delivering professional development and improving standards of professional care.
* Good working knowledge of other Healthcare and public service Sectors especially those relating to learning disability, criminal justice and children's services.
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.
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