Band 8a Service Clinical Manager - 0-5 Localities Birmingham, England
Job description
The following exciting opportunities are as a direct result of a large-scale 'Strengthening Operational Structures' transformation programme recently undertaken. The Programme has resulted in the development of a leadership framework that will facilitate improvements in clinical service delivery for patients within our community and support our objectives.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior clinical Leader to join our 0-19yrs service within the Children and Families Division. The service provides a universal offer to all children in Birmingham, with additional aspects including Healthy Child Programme, immunisation, and enuresis services.
The successful candidate will be a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse or a Paediatric Nurse with a passion to drive safe, high-quality care in the community to young people and families across Birmingham.
Under the guidance of the Group Clinical Manager, the Service Clinical Manager will work within the newly established 0-19 management team to ensure that clinical standards are maintained throughout the service.
The Group Clinical Manager will be required to embed a working model of skill mix that supports the utilisation of expertise within the workforce. This integrated approach is further enhanced through the development of positive relationships with colleagues across the wider health economy, social care and local children’s centres to offer holistic support and interventions to children and families.
These posts will be based at various localities.
This post will be supported by the Group Manager Group & Group Manager 0-19 years Services - working alongside Early Years Practice Lead, District Clinical Managers and other local managers to deliver effective management and performance across this service.
Experience of line managing staff and the ability to plan, organise and be effective in change management in relation to these services, and the wider health economy, is essential.
Working alongside the senior management team and senior clinical professionals, the successful candidates will be involved in the delivery of service transformation, organisational development and integrated workforce changes within the Birmingham Forward Steps service.
This role will entail the responsibility of managing staff within a defined number of Health Visiting teams situated within defined districts in order to ensure effective systems are in place for safe staffing, supervision, work allocation, target setting and effective achievement of key performance indicators.
The role requires you to have experience as a high performing clinical leader who emulates professional behaviours in line with our Trust values of being caring, open, respectful, responsible, and inclusive and support the Children and Families Division in being a 'Great Place to Work'.
Although this role will be based at the above locations, travel across sites within Birmingham will be required.
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for the clinical operational management and clinical improvement of services listed in Appendix 1 adjoined to this job description.
The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness of the service(s), overseeing the Service(s) response to Complaints, Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, Clinical Harms and the outcomes from Clinical Forum, to ensure the service delivers high quality and effective care.
The post holder will work in liaison with the Service Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for service(s) listed in Appendix 1. The post holder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes for their respective areas, as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s), providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these. Where required, the post holder will support the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s). The post holder will lead on the recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.
