This two-year fixed-term Service Lead post sits within the Transfer of Care Directorate at University Hospitals Tees, covering several services across the sites of both former trusts. The post holder leads Team Leaders, Service Leads and senior AHP and nursing staff, and shapes medium to long-term strategy for the services. Responsibilities also include budget control, clinical quality and safe staffing, with work across sites possible. HCPC or BASW registration and a management qualification or equivalent experience are needed.
What the job involves
- Be accountable for a number of services within the Transfer of Care Directorate
- Ensure safe, high quality, evidence-based clinical services across University Hospitals Tees
- Contribute to medium to long-term service strategy and ensure the fundamentals of care are in place
- Provide leadership and management to Team Leaders, Service Leads, senior AHP and nursing staff
- Coordinate safe standards of care
- Monitor and control expenditure
- Monitor the quality of clinical support and the clinical environment
- Ensure safe staffing levels at all times
- Work in collaboration with Care Groups and other organisations across the local system
- Work with operational, AHP, nursing and clinical leadership colleagues
- Deliver services within available resources in line with University Hospitals Tees strategic objectives
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree or diploma in AHP or social work
- A management qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of recent relevant and continuing professional development
Registration & licences
- HCPC or BASW registration
Experience
- Demonstrable management experience, including direct line management
- Creative strategic thinking and translating strategic goals into operational plans
- Recent positive leadership, transforming and leading teams to work effectively together
- Track record of achieving healthcare targets and partnership working
- Proactive performance management and delivering challenging objectives to a deadline
- Capacity and service planning within an acute healthcare setting
Skills & knowledge
- Intellectual flexibility to look beyond existing processes and improve service delivery
- Strong understanding of professional clinical management and national and local therapy agendas
- Understanding of operational management and service improvement methods such as lean and Six Sigma, with change and project management
- Sound understanding of NHS legislation and national strategy
- Knowledge of financial and commissioning frameworks, with budgetary and cost improvement planning
- Workforce and capacity planning experience
What’s offered
- Health and wellbeing initiatives
- Staff benefits
- Opportunities for personal and professional development
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
