Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Directorate
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will be part of the On-Call Rota)
- Job ref
- 380-FR0463
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Greenacres
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £60,983 - £70,536 per annum Inclusive of high cost area allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
General Manager
Band 8b
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an inspirational leader to join Low Secure Services on a one year secondment as a General Manager, in the Forensic & Specialist Directorate.
The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with the professional heads, the Service Manager and the Matron to provide demonstrable assurance that the quality of the clinical services including patient safety, patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes meet the required high standards. General Managers will have a portfolio of services that they are responsible for so will need to understand the ongoing transformation work that is currently being implemented along with a genuine interest in performance so that they can support the Teams in working towards the agreed Key Performance Indicators.
Working with the Senior Management Team, and reporting to the Service Director, they will ensure that services are fit for purpose and that the teams they manage are motivated and working efficiently with the support of the Service Managers. They will need to be visible and available and to manage the performance of services to ensure excellent clinical outcomes and good levels of engagement.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
General Managers are responsible for the overall management of a range of nominated services within the Directorate. Working closely with colleagues in all other relevant teams will ensure excellent clinical, operational and financial outcomes. The post-holder will be expected to work as part of the Senior Leadership Team with other General Managers, the Deputy Director, the Head of Nursing & Quality, the Allied Health Professional Lead, the Lead Psychologist, and Clinical and Service Directors.
General Managers may be responsible for additional specialist or ‘place’ based services as required and reviewed in line with service needs.
The post-holder will also have a key role in liaising with and supporting Local Care Partnerships in the integration agenda.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What is High Cost Area Allowance?
The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.
As this post is based in Dartford, Gravesham or Swanley, the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.
5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,192 per year and a maximum payment of £2,011 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly)
Please refer to the full job description for further information and a full outline of the person specification for the role.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- First Degree.
- Evidence of continuing professional development to Master’s level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of professional development in Leadership / Management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of managing clinical health and/or social care services.
- Experience of working successfully in managing and co-ordinating a range of complex, multidisciplinary clinical services.
- Experience of change management and workforce redesign.
- Experience of performance management of service delivery, staff and processes to ensure local and national targets are consistently achieved
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of performance management methods/procedures
- Able to set objective measurements and develop monitoring systems to inform the organisation.
- Able to lead and generate a clear sense of direction for services.
- Able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to ensuring that services meet the needs of services users and their carers and are delivered with multi-cultural sensitivity
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Able to motivate and enthuse staff at all levels, improve confidence and contain anxiety.
- Able to influence, persuade and negotiate
- Able to express complex issues, both verbally and in writing for a range of audiences.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie-Anne Meadows
- Job title
- Service Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07985 158505
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