Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (ACS on call rota)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call)
- Job ref
- 820-7275727-COM
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Moseley Hall Hospital
- Town
- Moseley
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Band 8b Group Clinical Manager - UCR/Virtual Wards
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the integrated Care Service for an 8b Group Clinical Manager, the post holder will be responsible for leading the clinical operational management and clinical improvement of Urgent community response and Virtual Wards Services within the Division and working with the Community Care Collaborative with supporting the development of the Locality Strategy as well as the NHS England Urgent & Emergency Care plan with a focus on service delivery in achieving improvements within the UEC pathways that will have the biggest impact on urgent and emergency care services. Being accountable to the communities we serve with a focus on enhancing the number of patients receiving care through the services
Main duties of the job
The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness and clinical governance of Virtual wards and Urgent community Response service in line with local and national quality standards. Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback will be managed and form part of continued improvement across the Group. 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 oversee and deliver high quality and effective care across the Group.
The post holder will work in liaison with the Group Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for all services within the Group. 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 to the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s).
In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service to ensure smooth delivery patient care and service(s) as well as addressing any clinical delivery issues impacting on service deliverability.
Working for our organisation
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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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness and clinical governance of Virtual wards and Urgent community Response service in line with local and national quality standards. Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback will be managed and form part of continued improvement across the Group. 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 oversee and deliver high quality and effective care across the Group.
The post holder will work in liaison with the Group Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for all services within the Group. 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 to the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s). The post holder will be a visible leader and will lead on the recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.
In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service to ensure smooth delivery patient care and service(s) as well as addressing any clinical delivery issues impacting on service deliverability.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant experience working at senior management level
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive relevant experience working at senior management level
- Extensive experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets
- Extensive relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring
- Significant experience of line managing staff/teams
- Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees
- Significant experience of utilising PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of local health economy
- Knowledge of current NHS Framework
- Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
- Demonstrable knowledge of governance of financial targets/service delivery
- Ability to work on own initiative without frequent supervision
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with clinical and managerial Teams
- Understanding a full range of improvement methodology techniques, including process mapping, capacity and demand modelling and sustainability processing
- Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention
- Ability to work under significant pressure and to demanding timescales
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Glass
- Job title
- Interim Deputy Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702 141374
- Additional information
Lisa Davies
Office: 0121 466 6120
Mobile: 07704 307600
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