Inpatient Service Manager (part time-job share)
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A relevant professional qualification in nursing, or AHP and current registration with the relevant professional body
- Post-graduate leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Willingness to work towards continued professional and practice development through leadership training/courses
Desirable criteria
- Additional leadership qualification
- Masters level qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-qualification experience of working in a statutory Health or Social Care setting demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility, preferably in a multi-disciplinary team
- Substantial experience of leading, managing and motivating staff including performance management and staff development to deliver high quality results.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries and integrated working
- Experience of achieving positive outcomes for patients and through multi-disciplinary and partnership working.
- Experience of managing successful change programmes, working across service areas to improve and develop service delivery.
- Experience of identifying and managing risk in line with Inter-Agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures
- Experience of managing budgets effectively
- Experience of managing and reporting on performance data and targets
- Experience of recent involvement in practice/ service development
- Experience of facilitating and delivering training
- Experience of professional supervision of staff
- Experience of audit/ evaluating clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a rehabilitation/ enablement or intermediate care context
- Experience of managing an Inpatient unit
Skills Abilities and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to the trust values (Care, Respect, Communication )
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing, including use of financial and activity data, report writing, presenting, negotiating and the use of IT.
- Excellent presentation skills in communicating with and engaging a wide variety of stakeholders, including service users and carers, multi-professional staff groups, partner agencies and senior management
- Effective role-modelling, Collaborative and multi-agency working.
- Act as a decision maker and advocate
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data for service evaluation and development
- Application of sources of research and research methods to evaluate and enhance practice
- Ability to provide supervision, critical companionship and support to team members Evidence of continued professional development Knowledge of relevant policies/national strategy
Other Attributes
Essential criteria
- Puts people at the centre of everything they do
- Innovative and forward thinking
- Be a role model of the behaviours, values and skills of health & social care
- Able to work as a team member being flexible, reliable and committed
- Ability to demonstrate empathy, sensitivity and tact
- Able to problem solve
- Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of people and the service
- Confident and self-motivated
- Flexibility and creativity
- Ability to operate effectively with a constantly developing relationship with key stakeholders and associated agencies
- Ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy
Your recruitment team
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Your application
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References
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Closing date
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Shortlisting
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Application feedback
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Safeguarding and DBS Checks
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