Job summary
- Main area
- Community Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-461-24-GH
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queens Medical Centre
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
South Notts Transfer of Care Hub Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you looking for a new role which is both rewarding & challenging in equal measure?
Are you solution focused on achieving the best outcomes for the patient?
Are you passionate about supporting people to access the right services at the right time so that they leave hospital as soon as they are ready to be discharged?
Are you fair, balanced and unbiased when seeking to achieve the right discharge plan for the patient and would you enjoy the opportunity of achieving this by working across health and social care organisations ?
Do you want to help shape and develop how discharge looks across the ICS footprint?
If the answer is yes then this exciting new role might be for you!
We are looking for a confident, curious, experienced and highly motivated individual to help us realise our system vision for the integrated transfer of care hub for South Nottinghamshire.
The Transfer of Care hub brings 5 health and social care partner organisations together with a shared vision of a strength-based home first approach to same day discharge where discharge pathways out of hospital are streamline and have a clear patient centred approach.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the system discharge leads and partner organisations with the continual transformation of the transfer of care hub in line with and the ICS Discharge to Assess strategy. Ensuring continuous improvement and embedding of “Home First” approach and contribute to the development of proactive and responsive services, maintaining a clear focus on the delivery of high quality, safe, innovative, person-centred discharges that recognise and promote independence.
In performing this system wide role, the post holder is required to develop a shared system view of discharge, support with holding stakeholders to account, escalate to internal and external system partners to unblock discharge issues and driving forward the actions that need to be taken to support NUH with patients who require as supported discharge. The post holder will need to be skilled in communicating and influencing outside of their own sphere of authority across multiple organisations.
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post will be managed by the Deputy system discharge with accountability to NUH operational leadership and all partner organisations within the transfer of care hubs.
The role will support the system discharge team in the delivery of the requirements of the National Hospital Discharge and Community Support Policy, Operating Model, and the ICS Discharge to Assess strategy across the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICS.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent level of experience
- Experience of working in complex system across multiple organisations/teams
- Understanding of continuous improvements
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of discharge and health and social care agenda
Training
Essential criteria
- Demonstration of on-going professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in a management role at team leader level or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of working with other agencies, including leading partnerships, implementing system change across multiple organisations & coordinating multi-agency services
- Budget Management
- Project management work
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding and experience of the national discharge agenda
- Highly developed negotiation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to lead motivate and develop others
- Ability to initiate, plan, implement and lead project work with the subsequent evaluation and reporting
- Ability to assimilate and apply new information quickly and to analyze complex data
- Ability to solve problems in flexible and creative ways
- Ability to respond to changing direction in terms of the development and design of new practice/service developments
- IT skills and ability to use data to write reports
- Ability to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams
- Excellent organizational skills
- Committed to promoting equality and inclusion
- Committed to identifying and being responsive to community needs
Skills
Essential criteria
- Awareness of individual responsibility in ensuring effective use of physical resources
- Standard keyboard skills required to produce reports, procedural documents, and input data
- Ability to travel across sites
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across multiple organisations
- Managing conflict and the ability to negotiate across multiple organizations with multiple competing priorities
Values
Essential criteria
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Donna Smith
- Job title
- Deputy Integrated Discharge Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07833095454
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