Head of Service All Age NHS Continuing Healthcare
NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
The post holder will use their expert knowledge to lead a multi-professional team to provide high quality, safe and personalised care for our population in line with key standards and commitments. The post holder will ensure that the NHS CHC team have the appropriate compassionate, inclusive and value-based leadership, and are professionally managed, clinically supervised and developed to ensure that we retain our valuable workforce to deliver the outcomes for the population they serve. In addition, we must make best use of NHS resources and understand the needs of the population to ensure we commission and provide the appropriate care. The post holder must have a genuine passion for reducing health and social inequalities and ensuring inclusive practice at all times.
If you have operational and/or clinical leadership experience in continuing healthcare, it would be great to hear from you. The outcomes of these decisions can change lives and provide individuals with a level of self-sufficiency and dignity that they may not otherwise have. That's why a key NHS CHC value is working together for patients for holistic, person-centred care. The journey we are on is an exciting one: we'll know we're succeeding when our staff and our communities can feel and see the difference.
Main duties of the job
This role leads on quality and patient safety and has a key role in developing and maintaining effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety and quality of services. This role will ensure that appropriate governance processes for oversight are in place and how learning responses are translated into improvement and integrated into wider improvement work across the ICB. The Head of Service - All Age NHS Continuing Health Care will ensure compliance and contribute to the ICB plans and efficiency targets to ensure robust management of the All Age NHS Continuing Health Care CHC and workforce budget and financial plans. This will contribute to minimising financial risk to the ICB whilst meeting key quality standards and key performance indicators. The Head of Service - All Age NHS Continuing Health Care will lead on continuous service improvement through the use of resources such as data intelligence and feedback from patients, their families/carers, and the system workforce.
About us
Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System brings together local NHS, councils and voluntary, community and faith sectors to better serve our communities. With a population of circa 1.55 million, our vision is for BSOL to be the healthiest place to live and work, driving equity in life chances and health outcomes for everyone. For a chance to be part of the fantastic opportunity we have as an Integrated Care System, apply for this role today.
As a member of our system, you will actively demonstrate system values in all that you do. You will be driven to address health inequalities and create an environment that is inclusive for all people.
In return, NHS Birmingham and Solihull can offer you the opportunity to thrive and develop in a team that is supportive, ambitious and inclusive. You will have plenty of opportunities to build your skills and experience, with a chance to work with colleagues across our five Provider Trusts, two Local Authorities, voluntary organisations, Integrated Care Board (ICB) and NHS England to truly effect change and add value.
We know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation and are committed to challenging discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity for all, being a fair and inclusive employer, and creating a place of work in which all of us feel we belong.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Education
* Educated to master's degree level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in Continuing Health Care specialty.
* Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development.
* NMC / HCPC Professional registration.
Knowledge
* Significant demonstrable experience with line management responsibility at a senior level.
* Proven success of change management, including the ability to motivate staff.
* Evidence of clear understanding and experience of safeguarding process, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
* Evidence of matrix working in an organisation.
* Extensive working knowledge of National Framework for NHS Continuing HealthCare and Funded Nursing Care and its application in practice.
* IT literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Outlook, Word and Excel.
* Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
* Demonstrable knowledge of quality improvement methodology and be able to translate this to practice.
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.
NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours.
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