Job summary
- Main area
- Community Children's Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-G-HC-1376
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alexandra Avenue Health & Social Care Centre Primary Care Hub
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £75,853 - £86,574 per annum inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/08/2024
Employer heading
Head of Children’s Services
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
The main objective of the role is to manage the portfolio of children’s services within the community division in Outer London Borough of Harrow. This includes both universal children’s services such as school nursing and health visiting as well as more specialist services designed to support complex families e.g. child development, paediatric therapies,
looked after children’s team, immunisation and the children’s nursing service.
Main duties of the job
The Role
We are keen to recruit a dynamic and experienced senior operational manager with experience of working with a range of stakeholders in a fast paced and changing environment.
You should have significant experience of working in a variety of health care settings and managing high quality effective services as well as an understanding and experience of children’s community services and developments within the NHS. You will need to have energy, drive and ambition to manage across a wide geographical area, and be able to both work autonomously and also in partnership with key stakeholders, internal and external.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Gareth Martin - PA - Service Director for Outer London Services
Email: [email protected]
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, is pleased to have a long standing delivery of community children's services within the borough of Hillingdon with close working relationships with partners across health, social care and the third sector. We are working hard with Harrow Borough Based Partnership to ensure that we continue to deliver and enhance the integrated working that is key for the care of children within Harrow.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To lead the management and integration of all services within the community forchildren 0-19 in Outer London borough of Harrow where we procure services (both universal and for children with disability or complex families), ensuring effective joined up pathways with key partners including Local Authorities, NHSE and NWL.
- To be accountable for the delivery of CNWL Universal Health Services including Health Visiting, School Nursing, Looked after Children and Immunisation in Outer London Boroughs.
- To be accountable for the delivery of CNWL Targeted Health Services including Child Development Centre, Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy, Paediatric Occupational Therapy and Paediatric Physiotherapy and Community Children’s
nursing services in our Outer London Borough of Harrow. - To ensure efficient and response administrative services are in place across them borough to support front-line delivery and respond to 0-19 service working closely with the administration manager to support the child administration hub.
- To assume overall oversight of the delivery of services across organisational boundaries, where relevant, and disciplines, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise both individual and organisational performance and that all staff have
access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance through both dotted and solid line reporting structures - To develop a range of mechanisms to grow talent
and develop individuals throughout the Children’s service.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- University degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Hold a professional clinical qualification in a relevant children’s discipline
- Demonstrable capability and capacity for clinical service management at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare environment, including staff management, financial management and change management
Desirable criteria
- MSc/MA relevant to post
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant senior managerial experience in a large and complex organisation preferably within the NHS
- Significant experience working in a senior management role within Children’s Services (community, acute provider, local authority, CCG or LA commissioning) and an appropriate professional qualification in the speciality
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to community services
- A detailed understanding of the national children’s agenda – both legislative and direction of travel
- Track record of undertaking and completing significant projects
- Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation
- Prioritising and managing workload within a busy operational role
- Self-motivated and autonomous
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of managing community services
- Breadth of management experience in different environments/across different areas (NHS or non NHS).
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, with a track record in writing complex business cases and policies
- Advanced keyboard skills and knowledge of a full range of IT software including databases.
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve others
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief “up the line”;
- Make things happen by working in partnership with others and using the highest level influencing and negotiating skills
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gareth Martin
- Job title
- PA - Service Director for Outer London Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Argo House 180 Kilburn Park Road
London
NW6 5FA
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