Locality Manager

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Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

Are you a dynamic, motivated leader passionate about delivering quality services? Are you looking for a new role full of opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues, health, care, voluntary sector partners, users, and stakeholders to transform community nursing services to better meet the needs of the population of Barnet?

Barnet Integrated Services are looking to recruit a Locality Manager to join our Barnet Integrated Community Team. You will be a confident leader, bringing your expert clinical skills and experience to support the team towards delivering an excellent community service.

As Barnet moves towards closer integration, you will be an integral part of the collaborative bringing fresh ideas and enthusiasm to the table to ensure greater access to and equity of service provision.

We are therefore looking to appoint a leader who reflects the core values of the Trust. If you would like to know more, please do get in touch for an informal discussion.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will be responsible for the operational and clinical management of the patient care services within Barnet Community Team. They will be expected to provide strong clinical and operational leadership to staff and patient care in accordance with Community Adult Health Services clinical model. The post holder will focus on the continuing development of a seamless integrated service between the primary, acute and community Trusts as well as other partner organisations.

The post holder must have the ability to function autonomously and in collaboration with other Trust services and external service providers.

Applicants should have leadership and management experience, and excellent communication skills.

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to job description, personal specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration / Current AHP with UK HCPC registration
• Specialist practice qualification or equivalent academic post graduate study and experience.
• Evidence of management experience
• Graduate Diploma/ Degree
• Evidence of relevant in-depth postgraduate study or qualification to a level equivalent to Masters where this is available and/or relevant CPD showing evidence of successful recent study.

Desirable criteria

• Non-medical Prescriber V100/150/200
• Extended or independent non-medical prescriber (V300)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate/ post registration experience, in relevant clinical specialty substantial experience as team leader within acute/community setting
• Experience in health service management including experience of clinical staff and budget management.
• Knowledge of assurance of quality and CQC key lines of enquiry.
• Knowledge of the NHS, especially integrated care and NHS long term plan
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply all relevant trust and professional policies, procedures and guidelines
• Knowledge of processes involved in health and social policy development and of current policies and their impact on community services
• Experience of developing others through CPD/PDP/Clinical Supervision
• Service improvements and change management.
• Complaints management
• Experience of dealing with HR issues
• Use of datix and incident investigation and associated report writing
• Experience of effective multi professional and multi-agency working
• High level analytical skills and use of data

Desirable criteria

• Patient Surveys
• Development of quality frameworks
• Experience of monitoring quality services and audit
• Knowledge of key performance indicators and associated monitoring
• Achievement of CIPs, CQUINs
• Business case development for cost pressures
• Serious incident investigation experience

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication strategies and skills able to apply and adapt to diverse, complex and challenging situations.
• Knowledge of and ability to successfully lead and manage change in working practices
• Drive enthusiasm for clinical excellence using evidence-based practice and clinical networks
• Well-developed influencing and negotiating skills
• Able to support, manage and develop a diverse workforce, recognising and valuing their different backgrounds, their individual and specific needs
• Proactive/innovative approach to service delivery and development
• Team building
• Able to deliver on and to embed equality and diversity values into service delivery, work activities, policies and procedures within the department
• Teaching and assessing junior staff and post graduate students.
• Health promotion and Health Education
• IT skills e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Ability to use clinical systems e.g., emis

Other

Essential criteria

• Maturity/self-awareness
• Enthusiasm and positive attitude
• Ability to motivate staff.
• Flexible approach
• Awareness of self as a role mode
• Able to take a self-reflective approach to own practices and engage in clinical supervision.
• Able to work under pressure and in a fast-paced environment
• Good level of physical health and stamina
• Able to travel across all sites within the division
• Clearance from DBS at enhanced level

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description and person specification (PDF, 728.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)