Job summary
Employer heading
Professional Manager / Community Access Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Professional Manager for our HMP Pathway Services. This is a hybrid post consisting of operational management of clinicians working within the HTFT, HMP Pathway Services and to provide clinical interventions within a Community Access Practitioner role.
We are looking for a highly motivated, confident practitioner who has a strong interest in prison work. The post holder will be required to carry a caseload at HMP Millsike and Full Sutton, but take a flexible approach to travel to HMP sites within the contract in a managerial capacity.
The post holder will be working within our growing group of forensic services which is closely aligned to our in-patient services and wider Humber & North Yorkshire Specialist Provider Collaborative.
This is a great opportunity to be involved with new partnerships within the prisons; including Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust as the lead provider delivering the mental health element alongside Rethink Mental Illness.
Secondment opportunities will be considered.
Main duties of the job
Job Role Summary & Core Functions
Responsible for the development, implementation, delivery and review of high standard clinical services by providing strong, effective leadership and management to specified services and teams.
Works in partnership with Lead provider, other subcontract providers, professional leads and senior clinicians supporting clinical practice and clinical pathways.
Continue to demonstrate advanced management skills and provide support and advice to service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies, appropriate to their lead area.
Undertake a clinical caseload within a Community Access Practitioner Role
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A detailed overview of the job description and person specification is provided in the attached document.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Be a member of a recognised professional body and hold a current professional registration.
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified service area.
- Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent and Experience.
- Evidence of management, leadership and organisational development issues that have had a positive impact on service delivery.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced management/leadership training/qualification or equivalent experience.
- Advanced/expert understanding of management , leadership and organisational development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the professional lead area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning.
- Proven leadership/management experience at an advanced level which has had a positive impact/created change within service delivery/practice
- Be able to effectively Chair meetings
Desirable criteria
- Proven experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally.
- Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
- Ability to commute between the various sites
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Arundel
- Job title
- Service Manager - Community Forensic Teams
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 336200
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