Head of Service All Age Continuing Care | NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
| Posting date: | 19 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £74,290 - £85,601 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 January 2025 |
| Location: | Cheshire, CH1 2HJ |
| Company: | NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6886056/493-ICB-6886056 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical leader to join our senior leadership team across Cheshire and Merseyside.
The All Age Continuing Care Service covering Cheshire East and Cheshire West Places is seeking a Head of Services to deliver a portfolio of individual commissioning activity; including NHS Continuing Healthcare, Children and Young People’s Continuing Care, Mental Health Funding - Section 117 aftercare, Section 17 leave and independent hospital placements.
This is a chance for you to lead an efficient, effective, high quality professional and well-coordinated service, that can meet all statutory, regulatory, quality standards and NHS requirements, whilst ensuring alignment with the activity of the Integrated Care Board.
You will provide clinical and strategic leadership and expertise that delivers continuous improvement as well as ensuring that day to day activity meets key performance targets and supports staff.
You will develop and maintain key relationships with Local Authority partners, senior leaders within the ICB and NHS England Assurance leads, ensuring the service exceeds expectations and find ways to resolve challenges.
This role demands dynamic leadership, as the post holder has budgetary responsibility for multiple commissioning services, you will be expected to work alongside colleagues in Finance and Contracting teams and be able to monitor and manage staffing and cost of care budgets. An ability to ensure best value for money is considered as well as gaining the best experience for individuals is crucial.
You will be responsible for the management of a large staff team consisting of 60 staff with varied roles and experience, motivating them to deliver the full responsibilities of the service. You will ensure staff receive the support they need to perform well and will be responsible for recruiting to vacancies as they arise.
You will be responsible for ensuring appropriate information sharing processes and data systems are in place and will maintain an appropriate risk management register, issues log and performance monitoring that identifies areas of good practice and areas for improvement.
You will ensure that the service strives to be the best it can be and plan, develop and evaluate practices to ensure commissioning services are delivered to quality standards.
You will need to balance working on your own initiative with negotiating with senior stakeholders to deliver results.
To be successful in this role you should have significant experience in management of patient facing healthcare and be a subject matter expert in NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care.
Cheshire and Merseyside ICB serve a population of over 2.5 million people across nine Places (Boroughs including local Authorities), 17 NHS Provider organisations, 51 PCNs plus North West Ambulance service as well as third sector and voluntary organisations.
From a demographic perspective, there are some real challenges within Cheshire and Merseyside. 33% of the population of Cheshire and Merseyside live in the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods in England. In addition, the population overall suffers from some of the poorest health outcomes in England.
Working here is rewarding and we aim to support staff well.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. When recruiting, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.
We offer flexible working from your first day of employment and we also have an agile approach to home / office-based working. Please note however, that you will be required to work from our offices, for 2/3 days per week and that elements of the role may require you to travel to other locations across Cheshire and Merseyside, to attend in-person meetings and meet the needs of the service. Please consider this before applying.
The job description and main responsibilities are contained in the Job Description and Personal Spec attached.
This advert closes on Monday 13 Jan 2025