Redbridge Assistant Director for Community Children Services

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Redbridge Children Services are in search of a dynamic Assistant Director for their Community Children services which cover our Health Visiting & School Nursing (0-19 services), Specialist Targeted services as well as our Community Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Our purpose in Redbridge is to improve the lives of children, young people, parents/carers/families and our staff who live or work in Redbridge. We value leaders who are caring, competent, collaborative and aspire to aim for excellence. Our Redbridge Assistant Director will be part of our Collective Leadership Team which consists of Operational, Clinical and Corporate leaders. This triumvirate leadership style is extremely supportive and effective at ensuring that our services are safe, timely, effective, efficient and people centred.

If you are caring, competent, collaborative and willing to be part of Redbridge Collective leadership team which aspires to create a highly integrated children/young people services across the whole borough then please contact us for an informal discussion and visit and consider applying for this crucial post of Redbridge Assistant Director for Community Children services.

Main duties of the job

-To build effective partnerships with ICB , Local Authorities, Acute Care Trusts and Voluntary
-To set and review objectives, in the context of strategic developments, within the Services
-To work in partnership with patients and carers working towards the highest standards
-To hold budgetary and line management responsibilities and accountability relating to all service areas
-To promote ways in which services can project a more positive and socially inclusive view of health and social care;
-To engage fully across all areas of business focusing on
improving the physical and mental health of all serving populations
-To ensure a culture where staff, patients, the public and carers are involved in the decision making processes of services and in the wider context is maintained;
-To participate in all discussions and decision-making processes that relate to the strategic plans, liaising closely with, and ensuring these augment with those of other areas within the
NELFT.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

-Operational management

-Staff Management

-Information, Finance & Business Management

-Lead and deliver services on behalf of London Borough of Redbridge

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge

Skills

Essential criteria

• Skills

Others

Essential criteria

• Others

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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 PS (PDF, 710.9KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)