Service Manager | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Lewisham, SE13 6LW |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6312388/334-NUR-6312388-FR |
Summary
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a Service Manager. The post-holder will providewill provide leadership to the Lewisham acute inpatient wards and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), ensuring that in conjunction with the Ward Managers and Responsible Clinicians they co-ordinate, develop and manage the service’s strategic and operational plans.
The key aim of the acute care pathway is to support transition of patients through the assessment and treatment phase of an acute inpatient episode in order to support discharge and recovery. The Lewisham acute inpatient wards provide 24 hour care for patients who are too unwell or risky to be managed safely at home. There are two male wards (Powell and Clare) providing 35 beds and two female wards (Wharton and Virginia Woolf) providing 34 beds. Johnson PICU provides care for patients who require an enhanced level of care in a more secure environment due to their symptoms and / or level of risk. The unit provides 5 male beds for Lewisham patients and 5 male beds for Southwark. Inpatient services work closely with community teams and Home Treatment to ensure that discharge is facilitated at the earliest opportunity.
He/she will be responsible for the management of the ward clinical teams to ensure integrated clinical, operational, quality and financial outcomes are achieved within the service line.
The post holder is responsible for ensuring good throughput management utilising demand and capacity information.
He/she will be responsible for providing will provide line management across the acute pathway.
He/she will be responsible for exercising systematic clinical governance across the inpatient teams.
He/she will be responsible, in conjunction with senior colleagues, for the safe and effective delivery of the service by coordinating and planning, considering the training, skill mix and experience of the team.
For further details please refer to the attached JD.
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
Leadership & Management of people
The service manager is accountable for people management and development across their services. They will ensure people are focused and efficient in their roles and are achieving in individual and service KPIs. Robust performance and attendance management will be fundamental to ensuring service objectives are achieved and problem areas identified at an early stage with solutions quickly implemented.
Management of resources / financial delivery and information resources
The service manager will be key to operational delivery and management of basic financial controls. They will lead on effective management of resources and expenditure within their remit using approved financial management practices.
Service improvement & quality
The service manager takes responsibility for the quality of their services through effective monitoring of service delivery and ensuring internal quality processes are in place and working effectively across all services. They will ensure a clinical governance framework is in place in all services
For further details, please refer to the attached JD.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024