Site Daisyfield Mill (Multi-site working required) Town Blackburn Salary £74,290 - £85,601 Per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Could you be the person we are looking for? Do you want to work in a friendly, supportive and established Mental Health service where your knowledge and skills will be valued?
Lancashire and South Cumbria is the major health and wellbeing provider for a population of 1.7 million people across Lancashire and South Cumbria, providing mental health, learning disability services and physical health services in the community.
We have an exciting opportunity to improve population health, address health inequalities and provide high quality services in partnership with our communities designed to transform the delivery of our clinical operational services. We aim to ensure that every person using our services receives high quality care no matter where they access services. It supports our commitment to embedding cultural change through a style of leadership that is aligned to our values ‘we are kind, respectful, always learning and a team’. We are seeking compassionate leaders who are champions of diversity and inclusion, put service users and carers at the centre of decision making and actively work in partnership.
The Pennine Network are looking for an Associate Director of Operations to work within the Community care group. You will be an experienced and talented leader with excellent operational management skills who is able to analyse complex situations and information in order to reach a decision based on clear rationale.
Main duties of the job
The Associate Director of Operations is an accountable officer within the network locality and is responsible for the delivery of all patient services within the allocated care group. This involves ensuring that high quality services are provided to patients and that all operational and performance targets, including waiting lists, finance, and HR are achieved. The role also includes ensuring that services are continually improved and developed in line with best practice standards.
The Associate Director of Operations (ADO) will work in a team of managers within the network, alongside senior clinical colleagues, working together to ensure consistent quality of services is achieved across the organisation whilst delivering the specific elements commissioned through local delivery plans. The Associate Director of Operations will be responsible for line management of the service managers within the Locality.
As ADO for the Pennine Community and Children and Young People’s Physical Health you will be responsible for:
* Adult and Older Adult Community Mental Health Teams
* Specialist Mental Health services, such as Clinical Treatment Team and Clinical Networks
* Supporting partnership working with local organisations on behalf of the Network
The post holder will work in line with the Trust’s corporate objectives and will be expected to make a positive contribution to these objectives, as well as ensuring they are embedded within their teams.
Working for our organisation
You will provide leadership within your area of responsibility, promoting a culture of inclusion, openness, and learning. You will ensure that you and your teams have the knowledge and capability to support the continual improvement of care for service users and also be responsible for other areas of Transformation work across the Pennine Network.
Working jointly with your Senior Leadership team you will work in partnership with Commissioners, Acute Trust Providers, Third sector and Voluntary organisations, Local Government and Unitary Authorities, for the delivery of quality services particularly around the core domains of safety, effectiveness and service user experience. You will have oversight of budgets, governance resources and performance to ensure the team can support excellence in health care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To learn more about us, our ambitions and to discuss this exceptional opportunity please contact Amy Devine, Pennine Director of Operations, for further details on the opportunities available and informal discussions.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent
* Participation in continuing professional development to improve and update specialist knowledge
Knowledge
* Extensive experience of operational management
* Detailed understanding and advanced theoretical and practical knowledge and experience of the operation of healthcare services and performance targets
* Experience of managing a budget
Skills
* Well-developed analytical & problem solving skills with the ability to make decisions by determining key points from complex data and multiple information strands
* IT literate with well-developed skills for the use and application of information technology systems including file management, safe and effective internet use, Outlook, Word processing, PowerPoint, Access and Excel
* Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding and pressured environment against challenging deadlines
Values
* Required to work under pressure to meet deadlines and targets
* Complex interpersonal and multidisciplinary working
Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
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You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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