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District Manager | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 April 2025 |
| Location: | Folkestone, CT20 1SZ |
| Company: | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7056985/846-6973361-EP-A |
Summary
Are you an experienced Health Visitor?
Or already a manager and ready to take your career in a new direction?
We have a rare opportunity to welcome you as a District Manager with our Folkestone Health Visiting team. In this role you will lead and support colleagues to deliver the healthy child programme, you will collate monthly data reports to support governance, provide analysis of team data, undertake specific audits and support the supervision of practitioners ensuring best practice is adhered to while supporting the ongoing development and service transformation, we are a research active service and passionate about public health. The role requires a strong focus on physical visibility in the team but with room to work remotely at times. You will be supported by a friendly team of experienced operational managers, so if this is your first managerial role, help will be on hand.
What will the role involve?
• Responsible for the line management and development of district colleagues, ensuring that all have the appropriate competencies and up to date training to enable them to safely undertake their roles.
• Provide advice and guidance on and undertake a range of competent clinical and non-clinical interventions to support colleagues, the service and maintain clinical credibility.
• Work closely with the Family Partnership Programme Leads and Senior Practitioners to ensure that there is a continuous leadership presence within the district whilst retaining overall responsibility and accountability for performance.
• Lead, attend and contribute to team and service meetings.
• Building relationships with all stakeholders to enhance the team working environment and partnership working across the system
We also offer a generous NHS pension, annual leave entitlement and a competitive pay framework to progress through.
So, if your enthusiastic and enjoy working with families and up for a new challenge then we would love to hear from you!
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
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At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Apr 2025