Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead in London

Main area Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 12 months (May be required to work on-call or weekend) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May be required to work on-call or weekend as per service requirements) Job ref 220-WHT-3901-C

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lordship Lane Health Centre (various sites as needed) Town Wood Green Salary £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 21/08/ :59

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Job overview

Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead – East or Central

(Band 8a Fixed term)

Join an Outstanding Team and Make a Real Difference!

Are you an inspirational leader with a passion for delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care in the community? We are seeking an Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the Neighbourhood Health Model acrosslocalities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an outstanding, forward‑thinking division, where collaboration, innovation and population health are at the heart of everything we do.

Are you ready to take that leap to help us shape the future of integrated community care locally?

If you are motivated by collaboration, innovation and improving care at neighbourhood level, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As the Integrated Neighbourhood Team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary neighbourhood team, working across organisational boundaries to improve outcomes for residents.

You will be instrumental in embedding integrated ways of working, strengthening partnerships with primary care, social care and voluntary sector colleagues, and ensuring care is delivered closer to home whenever possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide visible, inclusive leadership to an integrated, multidisciplinary workforce
• Work alongside the Haringey Proactive Care Service Manager to lead the delivery and ongoing development of the Neighbourhood Health Model
• Drive improvements in quality, safe care, population health outcomes and patient experience
• Foster strong collaborative relationships internally and externally with partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector
• Use data, insight and innovation to support continuous improvement and transformation
• Ensure services remain responsive, sustainable and aligned with system priorities.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and personal specification for more details on this post and an opportunity to join our specialist services.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of training and/or experience in leadership and other HR issues in an NHS setting
• Relevant AHP or nursing Clinical Degree/Diploma with management experience in an NHS setting
• Registration with the HCPC /NMC
• Relevant emergency planning training courses and experience

Skills

• High-level interpersonal skills.
• Marketing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to write reports and papers
• Teaching/coaching/facilitation skills.
• Able to assimilate and analyse complex clinical and technical information.
• Ability to communicate information to senior colleagues in multi-disciplinary and multiagency forum.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to anticipate and prioritise competing demands.
• Ability to plan, manage and deliver an agreed change programmes.
• Ability to motivate and lead teams of staff.
• Analytical skills in relation to client, organisational and staffing issues.
• Knowledge of project and programme management

Experience

• Management experience, communicating at all levels of the organisation.
• Budgetary management experience and understanding of the current NHS financial regime
• Experience of staff management including: managing recruitment, performance monitoring, and appraisal, induction and mentoring.
• Experience of chairing meetings
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and its application to community services
• Experience of negotiating and influencing at operational levels
• Experience of bidding for short term funding streams
• Evidence of leading change management processes.
• Evidence of leading change management processes.
• Experience within the NHS
• Involvement in strategic planning

Knowledge

• Knowledge of a wide range of staff management practices including: Appraisal, Disciplinary process, Recruitment, performance management, redeployment and absence management
• Comprehensive understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance principles and their application
• Knowledge of wide range of senior management practices including budgetary management, the consultation process, workforce planning cost pressures and service developments

Aptitude and Disposition

• Commitment to working jointly with users, practitioners and other agencies to develop high quality services.
• Flexibility and enthusiasm for working within a changing environment.
• Demonstration of leadership qualities with the motivation required for task completion.
• Demonstrate personal alignment with ICARE values
• Demonstrate commitment to staff wellbeing
• Demonstrate commitment to EDI in workplaceomote equality and diversity within the workplace

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies , procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Other important information –

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

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The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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