Job overview
It’s an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we expand into the High Weald, Lewes, and the Havens (HWLH) area. We are recruiting to our new teams who will work with patients in their homes across the HWLH communities.
As part of our expansion, we are looking for a Clinical Services Manager to join us, so if you’re a dynamic and patient focused leader, with a passion for supporting services and teams to deliver excellent care at the heart of the community, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for people who can lead and inspire others with experience of engaging across multiple health and social care partners. They can support others, encourage their ideas and perspectives, and prioritise effectively to support strategic and operational delivery of an urgent community response service.
You will have healthcare business expertise, with performance and financial experience alongside proven and compassionate leadership and be able to promote and work within a culture of innovation and improvement. You will be working alongside your service colleagues to provide operational and clinical leadership within an urgent community response team which focuses on avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and supports patients at home after they have been in hospital.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the setting up and mobilisation of the Urgent Community Response Service in HWLH ensuring its growth and enabling urgent community response activity through compassionate and inclusive leadership.
In this role you will deputise and support the Area Director, Deputy Area Director and General Manager of the Urgent Community Response Service and the wider senior management team to ensure the leadership, mobilisation and delivery of a high quality and efficient service.
You will support SCFT’s strategic planning and activity performance framework leading on the delivery of national performance targets for Urgent Community Responsive within HWLH. This involves ensuring sufficient data is available to monitor and manage performance identifying early need for remedial action plans where performance targets are not being met. You will have budgetary and financial oversight, which will require service delivery within the Service’s budget and the role’s delegated authority.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role sits within the East Area Senior Leadership team for the Urgent Community Response Service working collaboratively with the wider senior management team and other Corporate, Professional, Clinical, and Practice Development leaders. The role is to ensure the leadership and delivery of the service. Working across professional and corporate disciplines, the role will align quality standards and clinical governance strategies with business planning and operational performance.
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our General Manager, Annie Hampson, by emailing .
Person specification
Qualifications and/or professional registration
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Experience
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Skills and knowledge
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This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.
Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please ensure that you check your emails, including your junk folder, on a regular basis. References will be requested electronically as well; please ensure you provide correct contact details for referees.
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