Clinical Service Manager - Healthy Child Programme | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 3BE |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6261753/150-MM0006-CSS |
Summary
SCFT Healthy Child Programme (HCP) is recruiting a Clinical Service Manager to provide leadership and support to our service delivery in Brighton and Hove.
You will be an experienced registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visitor with extensive experience leading and managing teams within the Healthy Child Programme and perhaps other teams.
Whilst your focus will be the leadership of the Health Visiting teams in Brighton and Hove, you will work closely with your colleagues locally in B&H 5-19 services and West Sussex 0-19 HCP, providing leadership and quality oversight as part of the broader SCFT HCP leadership team.
You will work with the team leads and clinical colleagues across Brighton and Hove HCP to deliver health visiting services.
This involves provide the leadership and support to teams to deliver the contractual requirements, and work with teams to promote the wellbeing of staff.
You will benefit from working jointly with the leadership team across the SCFT HCP (Brighton and Hove and West Sussex) on shared projects and processes.
Being able to work both autonomously and within a team is essential.
You will be an excellent communicator, compassionate leader and be solution focused in your approach.
You will be able to foster good working relationships with your teams, our colleagues within SCFT, including corporate services, and stakeholders outside of our trust such as Early Help, Safeguarding and Social Care and will be able to provide clinical leadership as required and within role, knowing when to escalate issues as appropriate.
You will have excellent digital skills which will support the level of performance and quality monitoring, reporting and actions required to ensure the service delivers high quality care across all areas.
You will have an excellent understanding of electronic patient record systems, electronic staff record systems, incident reporting, health and safety and infection control systems and to be able to use this data to monitor quality and safety of your teams.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
You will have understanding of and implement the principles of quality improvement , change management and use these to enable the delivery of service developments and change.
Please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for main responsibilities and skills and experience required for the role.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024