Main area: Learning disability
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (will include being part of on call rota)
Job ref: 267-SS6629497
Employer: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Lambourn House
Town: Abingdon
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/10/2024 23:59
Team Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases.
Job overview
Are you a compassionate, empathetic, and strategic leader, looking to make your first leap into a management position?
We, in the Learning Disabilities Service, are looking for a new Team Manager to lead our South & City team in giving a voice to the voiceless.
In this role, the smallest of changes can make the biggest difference to some of the most marginalised people in our society, so it’s important that you feel passionate about ensuring good outcomes.
With previous experience within the Healthcare Service, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that high quality care is delivered, so we’ll not only need you to inspire, but also to be emotionally aware in order to get the best out of the people around you and develop as a team.
This may be through upskilling, problem solving with your clinicians and fellow team managers, providing regular supervision, supporting other members of staff with a focus on development and improvement or through investigating complaints and grievances.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading the safe and efficient running of the South & City Learning Disability team, with a focus on staffing (e.g. infrastructure, training and development need), finance and performance.
Working closely with other team managers, the Service Manager and Clinical Leads, as well as external partners, you’ll be involved in developing strategic approaches and will need to be able to inspire others to join your vision to help meet service user need – and deliver sustainably.
The main responsibilities can be broken down into strategy, policy and delivery across the following areas:
* Quality
* Workforce
* Finance
* Performance
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To have responsibility for the recruitment and selection of new staff and ensuring all staff participate in appraisal, continuous professional development (CPD) and mandatory training.
* To manage a delegated budget.
* To take the lead in specific Directorate / organisation project work.
* To deputise and provide support for the Service Manager as required.
* To work in partnership with the Nurse and AHP clinical leads in the relevant service and countywide to ensure clinical standards and support matrix working.
* This role will be part of the relevant service management team on call rota and may involve working unsocial hours during evenings and at weekends as well as working in hours as service need dictates to attend Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust meetings as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MSc / post graduate diploma / long course linked to specialism, or equivalent experience.
Knowledge
* Excellent co-ordinator, facilitator, educator and written and verbal communication.
Experience
* Experience of working strategically in the on-going development of services.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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