Assistant Director of Community Hospitals
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there's never been a better time to join us.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised Assistant Director of Community Hospitals to join our professional team.
We're a close team but we're never exclusive; if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas, we would love to hear from you.
Main Duties of the Job
Could you use your skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That's where you come in.
We're always looking for enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable people to join our outstanding trust. This role is important as you'll be using your knowledge, experience, and expertise to provide support to our hard-working frontline NHS teams.
We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same. Although NHS experience isn't a requirement for this role, you'll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times.
The challenges come thick and fast in this role, but you'll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day.
About Us
Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive, Excellent.
We know a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves on being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that suits us both.
Job Responsibilities
The job description and person specification give you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse or Allied Health Professional
* Educated to master's degree level or equivalent, in a relevant field, with high level analytical skills and ability to translate vision into clear direction
* Quality Improvement training/qualification
* Management/leadership qualification
Experience
* Significant management experience at a senior level working in a multi-disciplinary organisation, managing large staff groups from diverse, multi-disciplinary backgrounds, and contributing to corporate goals and leading on specific service goals
* Experience of forming and delivering strategic objectives to improve services and achieving change
* Experience of / or demonstrates an understanding of providing services in a community setting, including expert knowledge of the patients likely to receive care within the service
* To have successfully contributed to effective team working within a corporate context including the leadership of multi-disciplinary teams
* Leadership and management of a nursing workforce
* Experience of population health management
Knowledge
* Evidence of leadership and motivational skills during times of change
* A clear and comprehensive understanding of clinical governance, risk and controls, assurance standards, mitigation and recovery
Skills & Abilities
* Effective stakeholder engagement and co-design skills
* Capable of holding a vision for the designated service and informing debate on strategy and options for implementation
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.
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
£74,290 to £85,601 a year per annum pro rata
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