Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £53755.00 to £60504.00
Date posted: 12th November 2024
Closing date: 19th November 2024
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Job Description:
The Service Manager will work as an integral part of the leadership team within the ADHD side of the Devon Adult Autism & ADHD Service (DAANA), including operational responsibility for the service. The postholder will be required to ensure the existing service continues to offer patient-centred care with clinical governance as well as ongoing service development to meet the needs of the commissioned population. You will be required to provide efficient, effective day-to-day management in the delivery of clinical interventions, ensuring best use of resources across all care pathways within the service, and working with colleagues within the DAANA service to develop and deliver joint initiatives across neurodiversity pathway.
The post holder will provide a high level of managerial and clinical supervision to staff from a variety of professional backgrounds. Expertise and ability to deploy the capacity of the service in order to ensure that demand is met by the most appropriately skilled practitioner, whilst being accountable for delivery of a proactive caseload management system. The post holder will have performance management responsibility and ensure all targets are met.
The Service Manager will ensure effective governance and delivery of service models, and specifications based on evidence and best practice guidance within commissioned requirements. Ensuring implementation of clinical pathways and reporting on these internally and to commissioners.
Main duties of the job
Promoting a culture based on principles of a strength-based approach, choice and personalised care and treatment, and collaboration in which neurodivergent individuals, and their key supports/families can expect to be active in all elements of service care pathways. Active lived experience in the ongoing development of the overall pathway is also key to the service's success.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part-time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for full and comprehensive description of all required roles and responsibilities relevant to the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree or equivalent experience/competence.
* Professional qualification in Nursing, or Allied Health Professional.
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
* Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent and experience.
* Experience of working at a senior clinical level with a robust background in neurodiversity, particularly ADHD.
* Experience of robust leadership and ability to perform at a senior leadership level.
* Post-qualification training directly applicable to the delivery of Autism/ADHD, neurodiversity, mental health services.
Skills and Experience
* Robust clinical knowledge of working within the field of ADHD.
* Awareness of role and responsibilities of NMPs and ADHD prescribing.
Knowledge and Skills
* Excellent leadership skills.
* Demonstrable understanding of a strength-based/recovery approach.
* An understanding of multi-agency working across the health and social care spectrum and voluntary and independent sector.
* Demonstrable understanding of the Autism/ADHD clinical pathways.
* Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate clearly and confidently to a range of staff and audiences.
Experience
* Experience of managing staff within an ADHD, neurodiversity or mental health service.
* Budget management.
* Experience of working with ADHD, or those with other neurodevelopmental conditions.
* Demonstrable experience of identifying and delivering professional development and improving standards of professional care.
* Management Experience in the delivery of Mental Health and/or related healthcare services.
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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