Head of Service - Children's Community Nursing & Learning Disabilities

To ensure every child and family receives the right support at the right time, fostering well-being, development, and inclusion through collaborative, child-centred care.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust’s (CWPT) children’s services are reorganising, bringing together the four teams of: Children’s Neurodevelopmental, Community Learning Disabilities, Physical Health, and Mental Health into the one directorate. This will provide the opportunity of an enhanced experience and better outcomes for children, young people and their families.

This post will work closely with the Head of Service for Children’s Physical Health Therapies, Heads of Nursing and AHPs, medical lead for Paediatrics. We are looking for someone who believes, when clinically appropriate, the community is the best place to provide care to children and young people, is keen to work collaboratively and share our vision of optimising clinical skills to provide excellent care to children and young people.

Main duties of the job

The focus of the post will be to provide strong operational leadership to a discrete portfolio of services. The post holder will be a key member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) managing the specialist service line and will be pivotal in ensuring that positive outcomes for patients and staff are achieved.

The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring that services are delivered safely to a high standard and within budget. There will be a need to be transformative and innovative as services expand and relationships across the system are developed to meet local needs.

They will work with others to continuously improve services, ensure service user and carer experience is positive, and transitions between services are smooth and seamless.

They will ensure that clinical governance mechanisms are in place, driven at a local level, ensuring lessons are learnt and experience informs ‘best practice’. This will include working with Safety & Quality colleagues to ensure that lessons are proactively learnt via the appropriate formal and informal processes, and that complaints and concerns are managed to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Full time role, hybrid working supported.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’ this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support groups.

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Please contact Lindsey Sandler, General Manager via email on to discuss this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant clinical qualification and registration (NMC).
• Educated to a Masters level or demonstrable knowledge at the same level.
• Extensive operational experience of delivering clinical children’s services.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience across children’s health services.
• Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective and safe healthcare services as a senior manager in a multifaceted healthcare environment including staff management, financial management and change management.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• A collaborative leader with the ability to create a cohesive team.

Employer details

Employer name: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Address: Wayside House, Wilsons Lane, Coventry, CV6 6NY

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Job Reference: 444-6945853-BL

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