Job summary
hours per week.
The post holder will haveleadership and day-to-day management responsibility for a multi-disciplinaryTier 3 specialist Weight Management Service in Plymouth. They will work collaboratively with keystakeholders to ensure that a safe and effective Weight Management Service iscoordinated and delivered for the population. The post holder will work inclose partnership with the multidisciplinary team to drive improvement, embedchange and standardise practice, based on local requirements, nationalguidelines and clinical best practice.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.
Main duties of the job
Effectively manage the recruitment, organisation, and co-ordination of all staff.Conduct appraisals and ensure that all staff in the area of responsibility receive these at no less than yearly intervals. Give guidance and feedback to staff on their performance.Facilitate and supervise training programmes for staff, encouraging working groups, and research-based projects.Monitor sickness and absence, and action appropriately.Provide professional leadership to all staff.Encourage basic and post-basic learners, nursing and medical students plus school children during their work experience placements.Incorporate them into a safe and manageable working structure, adhering to organisational policies and procedures for both employees and disciplinary procedures for own team (investigating officer).Ensure appropriate support is provided to all staff when it is identified that an investigation is required under the Organisations Policies Disciplinary, Complaints. Deal with conflict in teams and arrange/ facilitate appropriate support. Signpost staff for ongoing support (Vivup).To provide support to staff, informal counselling, listening, providing feedback. Ensure all staff adhere to relevant statutory regulations policies, risk assessment,safety procedures and COSHH regulations.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you a clinical or non-clinical managerlooking to lead a dedicated, patient-centred Team through exciting change?
The post holder will haveleadership and day-to-day management responsibility for a multi-disciplinaryTier 3 specialist Weight Management Service in Plymouth. They will work collaboratively with keystakeholders to ensure that a safe and effective Weight Management Service iscoordinated and delivered for the population. The post holder will work inclose partnership with the multidisciplinary team to drive improvement, embedchange and standardise practice, based on local requirements, nationalguidelines and clinical best practice.
The postholder will lead andsupport a complex and rapidly changing service with a focus on Service redesign.
The postholderwill also have excellent relationship building skills, as you will be workingin partnership with a wide range of organisations, ranging from primary &secondary care through to community organisations.
Informalenquires to: Sarah Baldrey
Job Share(s) considered.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
1. Highly specialist expertise and knowledge of weight management/obesity/eating disorders developed to MSc level or equivalent as evidenced by competencies, CPD portfolio, attendance at specialist post graduate modules and short courses.
2. Knowledge of weight management and experience of clinical governance
Desirable
3. Good knowledge of evidence base, for communications and marketing, digital marketing and social media.
Specific Skills
Essential
4. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate highly complex information to meet a range of levels of in understanding of clients and carers.
5. Ability to negotiate and explain complex case related information about obesity to a range of audiences.
6. Ability to pass on skills to carers and other professionals to enable them to carry out treatment programmes for complex communication disorders.
7. Ability to implement and adapt specialised treatment programmes from a range of options based on extended clinical experience.
8. Ability to identify, collect, analyse, and interpret highly complex case related information.
9. Ability to recognise own clinical competencies and the need for onward referral for more specialist advice.
10. Ability to reflect on practice to identify own strengths and development needs
11. Ability to demonstrate effective team working and direction.
12. Ability to demonstrate initiative and creative thinking in service delivery.
13. Ability to initiate, maintain & review projects.
14. Ability to apply research to practice.
15. Full and valid driving licence.
16. Ability to travel across Devon
Desirable
17. Able to influence other and own professions effectively.
18. Able to translate national policy to local population and advise senior managers of implications for local service management.
Qualifications
Essential
19. Educated to degree level in relevant subject or significant, relevant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
20. Advanced/specialist training in weight management/obesity/eating disorders
21. HCPC registration
Desirable
22. Masters Degree
23. Educated to a degree level with significant, equivalent and relevant experience to masters level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
24. Ability to demonstrate an extensive range and depth of experience with weight management/obesity/eating disorders.
25. Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
26. Experience of supervision/line management of junior and senior staff including performance management
27. Ability to identify areas for own personal/professional development.
28. Evidence of CPD to maintain and develop specialist competencies and knowledge base working with more specialist staff, Clinical Excellence Networks, and short specialist courses, self-directed study.
29. Experience of supervising and assessing students
Desirable
30. Experience of participating in service improvement initiatives
31. Experience of representing SLT service in meetings with outside agencies
32. Experience working within palliative care.
Additional requirements
Essential
33. Excellent project management and organisational skills.
34. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, Interpersonal and facilitation skills.
35. Ability to negotiate with and influence people at a variety of levels in different organisations.
36. Ability to motivate people from diverse backgrounds and organisational levels.
37. Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work.
38. Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
39. IT skills and ability to use a range of software.
40. Ability to respond appropriately in unplanned and unforeseen circumstances.
41. Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.