Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
This role will provide day-to-day operational management and clinical leadership for ALMHS. The Team provides overarching specialist mental health assessments, interventions, care planning, and discharge planning for people with mental health needs presenting at the general hospital.
The Operational Manager (OM) is responsible for the line management of the staff working in their team and has responsibility for utilizing a range of systems including Healthroster, ESR, Agresso, SystmOne, Datix, and SMART to ensure the achievement of KPIs. Expected results are defined, but the post holder has the autonomy to decide how these are achieved.
The OM will provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information where complex skills are needed for clinical and operational situations. They will be required to undertake investigations including resolving and embedding learning from concerns and complaints through exercising judgment and analyzing complex facts and/or situations consisting of several components.
The OM is responsible for managing the budget for their team with responsibility for authorizing expenditure and accountability for the expenditure within their cost center. The OM will be responsible to ensure team members' welfare, ensuring there are plans to achieve the best from their workforce through the appraisal & supervision process and facilitate team processes that encompass all HR functions.
Main duties of the job
Key aims of the role include:
1. Facilitating effective communication between mental health services and the general hospital;
2. Ensuring that there is an appropriate provision of mental health assessment and care when patients are admitted to the general hospital.
3. Meeting the Key Performance Indicators expected in this role.
4. Creating and monitoring e-roster, ensuring safe and effective staffing levels.
5. Developing the service in line with current research and guidance.
6. Achieve and maintain PLAN accreditation.
7. Leading on complex cases and clinical review.
8. Representing NHFT and ALMHS at various multidisciplinary meetings.
9. To support clinically as capacity dictates.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health, and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the center of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work, or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centers in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development, and growth.
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Experience
* At least 3 years of experience as a qualified OT, SW, or RMN.
* Experience and good knowledge of working with adults who have ASD.
* Management experience reflected on.
* Experience and knowledge of working for Acute Liaison Services.
* Knowledge of Core 24 and PLAN Accreditation.
* Managed an Acute Liaison Service.
Qualification
* Further Qualification at Masters Level.
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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