Job summary
Are you looking for a challenge/development in your career? We are looking for Team Leads to support the operational delivery of the Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service across Brighton and Hove, Crawley and Horsham and Mid Sussex. Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust have 130 + staff in the paediatric team providing pre school and school support for children with speech, language, communication and eating and drinking difficulties. The service is provided from a variety of settings from clinics to special schools, we also continue to develop our remote offer.
You will work alongside other team leads to provide the operational leadership across West Sussex and Brighton and Hove supporting each other and being supported by the Deputy Operational Head of Service and the AHP leads. The Trust is keen to support the development of management and Leadership skills and as such The Trust has an extensive Leadership Programme and is supportive of staff training and development. There will be opportunities to further skills and knowledge through CPD: in house management skills, access to colleagues across West Sussex Brighton & Hove as well as an Education and Training Department for funding external courses and other opportunities for development.
Main duties of the job
A successful Team Lead will;
Provide operational management and leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality and effective service.
Manage the defined area with minimal supervision for daily operations, seeking support and guidance from the Deputy Operational Head of Service and/or Operational Head of Service as required.
Develop a coordinated professional clinical team ensuring that communication and engagement are key to the development of the service.
Cultivate supportive and productive relationships with General Practice, secondary care, and local authority colleagues.
Work towards proactive excellence rather than reactive management in care: identifying gaps within the service and reducing locality health inequalities.
Use excellent communication skills to enable facilitation and or negotiation of complex and sensitive information.
In conjunction with the Deputy Operational Head of Service and/or Operational Head of Service translate and take account of the impact of local national and other external policies and guidance for the defined area and implement these into practice and service delivery.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
1. Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
2. Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
3. Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
4. Excellent training and development opportunities
5. Research opportunities
6. Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
7. Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
8. Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
9. Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
10. Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
11. Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed breakdown of Job role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
12. Degree level qualification and/or relevant management experience
13. Evidence of continued professional development
14. Evidence of leadership education/development or a willingness to undertake this
Desirable
15. Management qualification or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential
16. Experience of managing a team or other relevant management experience
17. Knowledge and experience in using various IT systems
Desirable
18. Experience of managing a multi-professional team/collaborative working
19. Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your teams, by engaging them in development & delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
20. Ability to work as an Autonomous individual
21. Good numeracy and literacy skills and IT literate with the ability to use all Microsoft office applications
22. Demonstrates excellence in communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
23. Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
24. Knowledge of Clinical governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision
25. Demonstrate ability to reflect and learning from situations
26. Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
27. Awareness of professional responsibilities and boundaries and able to demonstrate self-awareness, able to identify personal limitation and shows openness to address them
28. Sound knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults and children
29. Well developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations.
30. A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
31. Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources.
32. Ability to think and plan tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands
33. Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
Desirable
34. Knowledge of local and national policies relevant to clinical area.