Head of Clinical Services
- NHS
- Full Time
- Southampton
- 66582.00 - 77368.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
HIOW Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are excited to be expanding their Mental Health in Schools provision to 100% coverage over the next three years and looking to strengthen our strong and innovative leadership team through recruitment to a Head of Clinical Service role dedicated specifically to MHST.
The Head of Clinical Services will provide strong, compassionate leadership and operational oversight of the MHST portfolio across Hampshire and the IOW. Ensuring the development of the service is clinically led and responsive to the needs of children and young people, with governance and performance that is aligned with the national protocol. The role will ensure the maintenance of the excellent practice and outcomes of our currently existing teams, whilst working collaboratively with our ICB and system partners to mobilise 17 new teams over the next three years. To achieve this, we are seeking to recruit a values based leader in line with the Trusts CARE values (compassion, accountability, respect and excellence) with experience of successfully leading in large organisations and through periods of change.
We welcome conversations about this role. If you are interested please get in touch with Chantal Homan, Associate Director, [email protected]
Main duties of the job
This is a key role in providing strong and visible leadership within the CAMHS subdivision, of the Children & Families Division and, as part of the CAMHS senior leadership team, will work to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe care.
Be accountable for the operational delivery of clinical services across the CAMHS subdivision. Working as part of the Senior Leadership Team, and under the supervision of the Associate Director, managing the associated integrated clinical, operational, staffing, governance and financial performance.
Support the Associate Director(s) and Associate Clinical Director to translate the vision of integrated management and governance into safe, effective and efficient service delivery. Using their leadership skills, they will be a visible, accessible and professional presence, providing leadership and supervision.
Lead in new ways of working and change across the service, and with partners, will ensure the services can deliver the care our children, young people and families need and want. This will include adapting to the changing requirements emerging over time and supporting changes to both the service delivery model and staffing structures.
Have a close working relationship with the Associate Director, particularly with regards to the delivery of integration and transformation plans. They will also work closely with the Associate Clinical Director and the Head of Quality Governance for clinical safety and effectiveness across CAMHS
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered professional with HCPC, NMC or Social Work England.
- and/or
- *Higher level education in a relevant field or equivalent with postgraduate management qualification or equivalent experience.
- *Training to masters or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- *Proven track record of senior operational and clinical delivery within a health environment with a minimum of 3 years' experience
- *Ability to lead, influence and negotiate
- *Ability to enthuse, motivate and involve others.
- *Experience of delivering complex services or work programmes at scale and pace, with innovative design approaches proven through outcome delivery
- *Experience of inter-agency working
- *Experience in influencing internal/external activities
- *Experiencing in developing and delivering programmes of improvement in clinical services.
- *Evidence of budget management skills to control large budget activity, including delivery of challenging saving targets.
- *Evidence of ability to analyse numerical & written data, assessing risks and options and draw appropriate initiatives
- *Evidence of proactive business and workforce planning capability to support contract development and management.
- *Excellent communication skills written and verbal, able to communicate and for clinical purpose, negotiation leadership and influence which may be highly sensitive, contentious, with barriers to understanding
- *Highly developed interpersonal skills with meticulous attention to detail
- *Complex planning/organisational skills where the workload is unpredictable
- *Ability to manage resources and staff effectively
- *Work with high degree of autonomy and professional accountability
- *Highly developed problem-solving skills including the ability to deescalate difficult situations and achieve resolution that may be managing emotional circumstance
- *Knowledge of government strategies and policies relating to service delivery area.
- *Working knowledge of safety and governance frameworks and standards (including confidentiality/freedom of information/Caldicott regulations/CQC standards)
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre
William Macleod Way
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 4XE
United Kingdom
