Job overview

“To ensure every child and family receives the right support at the right time, fostering well-being, development, and inclusion through collaborative, child-centred care”

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust’s (CWPT) children’s services are reorganising, bringing together the four teams of: Children’s Neurodevelopmental, Community Learning Disabilities, Physical Health, and Mental Health into the one directorate. This will provide the opportunity of an enhanced experience and better outcomes for children, young people and their families which makes it an exciting time to join us!

Across the range of services we are meeting the clinical needs of children with increasingly complex needs in special schools, their own home and respite.

Our nursing teams are skill-mixed and integrated across settings. We are investing in advanced practice roles. Also within this portfolio is the Children in Care (CiC) nursing, School-aged Immunisation Service (SAIS) and the Community Children’s Learning Disability Service.

This post will work closely with the Head of Service for Children’s Physical Health Therapies, Heads of Nursing and AHPs, medical lead for Paediatrics. We are looking for someone who believes, when clinically appropriate, the community is the best place to provide care to children and young people, is keen to work collaboratively and share our vision of optimising clinical skills to provide excellent care to children and young people so they can lead their best life.

Main duties of the job

The focus of the post will be to provide strong operational leadership to a discrete portfolio of services. The post holder will be a key member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) managing the specialist service line and will be pivotal in ensuring that positive outcomes for patients and staff are achieved.  

The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring that services are delivered safely; to a high standard and within budget. There will be a need to be transformative and innovative as services expand and relationships across the system are developed to meet local needs 

They will work with others to continuously improve services, ensure service user and carer experience is positive; services are responsive and accessible and transitions between services are smooth and seamless. 

They will ensure that clinical governance mechanisms are in place, driven at a local level, ensuring lessons are learnt and experience informs ‘best practice’. This will include working with Safety & Quality colleagues to ensure that lessons are proactively learnt via the appropriate formal and informal processes, and that complaints and concerned are managed to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Full time role, hybrid working supported.

Working for our organisation

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.