Job Summary
Discover a New Opportunity with Us! Are you a dynamic and motivated Registered Dietitian looking for an exciting leadership role? Join our forward-thinking and compassionate senior leadership team as a Service Clinical Manager during this maternity leave cover post.
Why Join Us? At Birmingham Community Nutrition, we are proud of our reputation for delivering exceptional clinical care closer to home. We value our staff, and have been recognized as a Great Place to Work. Here's what makes this role stand out:
1. Free parking at most community venues.
2. Hybrid working options for flexibility.
3. Modern office facilities and comprehensive admin support.
4. A supportive, collaborative team that values your contributions.
5. Structured clinical governance and career development opportunities, including annual appraisals, clinical supervision, and access to training programs.
About the Role This is a unique opportunity to:
1. Provide leadership to community hospitals and prescribing support dietetic teams, ensuring a seamless service that prioritizes safe discharge into the community.
2. Work on complex clinical cases, leveraging your expert knowledge of dietetic practice and safeguarding procedures to support vulnerable patients.
3. Serve as a deputy to the department lead and collaborate with department managers to ensure consistency and excellence across the service.
4. Take a lead role in organising student placements.
5. Represent our department at Birmingham and Solihull-wide dietetic meetings.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will be responsible for the clinical operational management and clinical improvement of services listed in Appendix 1 adjoined to this job description.
The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness of the service(s) overseeing the Service(s) response to Complaints. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to ensure the service delivers high quality and effective care.
The post holder will work in liaison with the Service Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for service(s).
The postholder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes for their respective areas, as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s) providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these.
Provide clinical operational leadership and responsibility for the Service(s) listed in Appendix 1, this will include clinical advice and expertise where required.
Support the facilitation of robust CIP identification, reporting and monitoring approach for Services listed in Appendix 1, providing clinical expertise to ensure that clinical outcomes continue to be delivered.
About Us
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
1. Work with the Divisional management team to develop as required new clinical initiatives and service developments to improve service outcomes for patients whilst ensuring that plans are in place to monitor on Quality impact assessments.
2. In collaboration with the Professional Lead promote development of audit activity to enable benchmarking of services and clinical governance processes.
3. To maintain and improve clinical performance standards, in conjunction with wider clinical team by monitoring compliance through relevant clinical audits such as monthly Essential Care Indicator and Safety Thermometer audit etc.
4. In conjunction with the Professional lead to ensure that clinical audits are undertaken as per divisional clinical audit plan and to support services in overseeing improvements required where identified.
5. To lead on the recruitment and retention of staff within service(s) listed in Appendix 1.
6. To support the Service Manager in delivering financial budgets and clinical components of Cost Improvement Plans.
7. To provide clinical leadership to the efficiency and productivity of Service clinical resources and to demonstrate this on an ongoing basis through the use of KPIs defined by the Divisional Senior Leadership Team.
8. Work with the Service Manager to ensure that effective governance arrangements are in place for identifying and mitigating risk and that a culture exists of continuous service review, transformation and evaluation and where staff can raise concerns safely and expediently with service delivery.
9. In liaison with the Service Manager, ensure staff at all levels are fully engaged in understanding the service specifications and performance targets for their service by creating a robust communication plan, staff engagement strategy, individual or team work plans and objectives, and training as required.
10. Responsible for the development and management of a Service Risk Register. Work with the Professional Lead in developing a clinical Strategy for the service(s) listed in Appendix 1.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
1. Degree level education or equivalent experience.
2. Membership/Registration of relevant professional body.
3. Evidence of / continuous professional development.
Experience
Essential
1. Significant clinical experience in relevant professional area.
2. Significant relevant experience working at senior management level.
3. Significant relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring.
4. Significant experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets.
5. Significant experience of line managing staff/teams.
6. Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees.
7. Significant experience of utilising PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues.
8. Experience in identifying education and training needs of staff, supporting them in their professional development.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
1. Knowledge of local health economy.
2. Knowledge of current NHS Framework.
3. Comprehensive understanding of quality agenda for NHS.
4. Excellent organisational skills.
5. Ability to work on own initiative without frequent supervision.
6. Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with clinical and managerial Teams.
7. Process mapping skills.
8. Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention.
Personal Qualities
Essential
1. Self motivated.
2. Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines.
3. Willingness to learn and share knowledge.
4. Proven leadership skills; strong, inclusive leadership style.
Other Job Requirements
Essential
1. Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
Birmingham Community Nutrition, Technical Block, First Floor and Annex,
Gee Business Centre, Holborn Hill,
Birmingham
B7 5JR
Employer's Website
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