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Head of Children’s Services | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £75,853 - £86,574 per annum inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Harrow, HA2 9DX |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6284528/333-G-HCS-0180 |
Summary
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.
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:
Beej Shira - PA to Claire Eves, Service Director for Outer London, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
01895 484795
Email:bshira@nhs.net
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 withHarrow Borough Based Partnershipto 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
• 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024
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