The Marlborough Community Team are looking for a new team manager. The successful candidate will be required to work with, lead and develop an experienced, passionate group of health care professionals. The team comprises therapists, support workers, nurses, administrators, and clinical care coordinators. You will also benefit from working alongside 2 Clinical Leads. Whilst you lead the team operationally, you can be assured that your Clinical Leads will be championing the team’s clinical care.
Our community teams support patients with a range of health care needs in their own home and within our Community Hospital clinics. We support long-term care needs, urgent care, and NHS at home (virtual wards). As the team manager, you will work closely with managers in your neighbouring teams, the local Primary Care Network, and the wider commissioning managers.
We offer a range of training pathways, for example, the Rosalind Franklin, NHS Leadership Academy training. Attendance on the training is within the working day with additional support from your line manager and others in a leadership position.
In addition to working with the Marlborough Community Team, the NHS will offer you a number of opportunities and benefits. You will be able to join the NHS pension scheme, have access to a wide range of NHS discount offers, plus a generous annual leave allowance. Parking on our sites is free.
You will also be entitled to apply for a Blue Light discount card and access a range of discounts in major shops. Community staff are required to drive. For those using their own car at work, the petrol allowance is 55p per mile; however, you may wish to use the team's pool car.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Kaye (Community Services manager) at kayelawton@nhs.net or 07747475133. We would welcome the opportunity to show you around the team.
Main Responsibilities
1. To provide support to the team via line management in line with the supervision policy.
2. To provide effective line management support to the Clinical and AHP Band 7 staff plus allocated Band 6 staff within the community team.
3. To continue to hold a clinical caseload balanced with Team Leader responsibilities, using this clinical responsibility to model best practice and willingness to demonstrate adaptation of new processes and ideas.
4. To work in partnership with local commissioners, GPs, Social Care, and Flow hub colleagues to ensure the teams deliver and support the effective movement of patients between primary community intermediate and secondary care.
5. To work closely with other teams to ensure effective care pathways and information sharing.
6. To work with colleagues in other teams to increase capacity by up-skilling.
7. To coordinate staff recruitment, appointments, and terminations within the team.
8. To ensure care pathways are followed; flagging any variance required to support further development.
9. To keep clinical records in line with records keeping policy and support the team to do so.
10. To ensure all safeguarding policies and SOPs are adhered to, including ensuring access to supervision is kept as stipulated.
11. To keep quality and safety training up to date and monitor this in the team.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have either an NMC or HCPC registration, experience in managing a team, and be highly motivated and committed with good communication skills.
You will need to have a valid UK driving licence and access to a car for work.
Package Description
As a Band 7 Team Manager, you’ll be part of our valued team at Savernake Community Hospital in Wiltshire.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
* Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring-fenced innovation funding each year.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
* Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you, so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices, and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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