Operational Service Manager – Wessex House Uk Visa Sponsorship

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

Are you a motivated registered professional? Do you want to guide and define the future of our Tier 4 CAMHS inpatient unit?

Then we want to hear from you.

We are willing to consider a secondment or permanent post.

This is a fantastic development opportunity for a professionally certified individual with demonstrated leadership and management expertise in mental health services. Your passion for providing excellent inpatient care, combined with your knowledge, will make you an indispensable member of our team.

This post will provide you with a demanding but rewarding workplace, participation in Inpatient Quality Transformation, and the opportunity to be a part of a larger Mental Health Inpatient service.

We are a general adolescent facility in Bridgwater that provides mental health care to teenagers with severe mental health issues that require hospitalisation. We offer a highly specialised service that assesses, treats, and manages young people aged 13 to 18 with mental health disorders that cannot be managed in the community due to their complexity and danger.

Somerset is proud of its great reputation for providing innovative routes that promote young people receiving care close to home.

Wessex House participates in the Royal College of Psychiatry’s QNIC accreditation process, and the CAMHS community service was rated outstanding by the CQC this year.

Main responsibilities, tasks, and abilities required

Your responsibilities will include coordinating, delivering, and maintaining a high standard of day-to-day clinical care for all patients on the ward, assisting with our larger Inpatient and Urgent Care services, and providing good clinical leadership to our ward team.

In addition, you will maintain excellent ties with CAMHS community services and the larger South West Provider Collaborative. In addition, you will be part of the Trust’s operational on-call mental health team.

About us.

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of perks to its employees, including flexible working arrangements, an NHS pension system, a significant annual leave allowance, and a dedication to career development.

You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a variety of NHS-exclusive shopping and leisure discounts.

We are proud of our professional and diverse workforce, and as an inclusive company, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Working in Somerset allows you to experience the lovely countryside, places of outstanding beauty, and stunning beaches while being close to vibrant city centres such as Bristol, Bath, and Exeter, as well as London, which is only two hours away.

The location has outstanding educational facilities, and property costs are low compared to neighbouring regions.

Somerset has something for everyone, from the rural to the cosmopolitan!

Job Description

To manage Wessex House, including management of the Ward Manager and ward team service quality, performance, budgeting and finance, personnel, personal and professional development and supervision.

To ensure that patients in Somerset receive a seamless and integrated service. Taking use of the opportunities that the service’s size provides.

To collaborate with CAMHS Community and Urgent Care services to provide routes and clinical offerings.

Maintain control and responsibility for site quality improvement and service development. Ensuring a collaborative, shared, and integrated approach

Working closely with corporate estates and facilities management to be locally accountable for the services estate, facilities, health and safety, and security

To be accountable for quality service delivery and collaborate with other agencies.

Daily accountability for overseeing areas of responsibility to ensure safe care and timely discharge.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant Professional Registration
• Evidence of continued professional advancement
• Educated at the degree level or similar experience

Experience

Essential

• Current knowledge of relevant legislation, theory, and policies governing the service.
• Able to demonstrate understanding of acquiring, analysing, and using information.
• Clear understanding of risk management.

Additional Criteria:

Essential

• Capable of providing proper leadership and delegation.
• Capable of communicating information to top management, personnel, patients, carers, and other agencies: involves negotiation, persuasive, motivating, and reassurance skills.
• Capable of delivering formal presentations to big gatherings of people.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly the capacity to operate in a multidisciplinary, multi-agency setting.
• Ability to examine difficult problems and devise practical and feasible solutions to them.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This position is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, which requires a Disclosure application to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously known as CRB) to check for any past criminal conviction.

Certificate of Sponsorship

applicants from job seekers who require existing skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are encouraged and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration page.

From April 6, 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance into the UK were required to show a criminal record certificate from each country where they had lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the previous ten years. This requirement also applies to adult dependents (those over the age of 18). Guidance can be found here. Criminal background checks for international candidates.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must hold current UK professional registration. For further information, please visit the NHS Careers page.

For assistance with your application, contact:

Neil Jackson

neil.jackson@somersetft.nhs.uk

07824547421