Job summary
The post holder will be required to work as part of the Adult Eating Disorders Team within the Suffolk Care Group. This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care provision and outcomes.
The post holder is responsible for the oversight of the care provided by the Adult Eating Disorders Team.
The post holder will demonstrate excellent clinical skills and will be expected to have experience and advanced/ specialist knowledge in Eating Disorders. They will be expected to act as a source of advice on their area of specialism across the Care Group and may be required to support developments in their given area of specialism across the Care Group and the integrated system as part of the overall development of the service.
You will provide specialist advice and knowledge to staff and be able to support practitioners with clinical matters and decision making.
You will be actively involved in facilitating and resolution of complex or challenging clinical situations and it is expected that the postholder will co-work on a limited basis with care coordinators where role modelling/ peer intervention may be of benefit to clinical outcomes in complex cases
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to:
Provide clinical leadership within the Adult Eating Disorders Team teams, maintaining the integrity of these teams in line with the Trust's organisational structure.
Work in partnership with clinicians, People Participation Leads and other stakeholders to support clinical engagement and leadership of quality, safety, performance and service development.
Lead and present complex, sensitive and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, carers, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.
Professional networking locally and nationally and disseminate/share information with other colleagues.
Chair / facilitate complex case reviews/ meetings which may involve other agencies.
Take the management/clinical lead role in partnership with the clinical/ multi-disciplinary team in managing complex cases.
Maintain advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical/practice area.
Contribute to identifying/reviewing/re-designing services in response to user need, ensuring a safe, high-quality level of service is maintained
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an individual you should be clinically credible with good evidence of leadership and possession of these qualities. You will need the ability to represent your profession, care group and specific service provision at various forums, meetings and committees.
You will be subject to timescales and deadlines so will need to work efficiently and under pressure with the self-awareness, autonomy and skill to delegate as and when necessary. You will need to have the confidence to hold others to account and the professionalism to be held to account.
To develop and maintain evidence based, strategic plans for Adult Eating Disorders services according to NICE guidelines, to deliver the vision and strategy in alignment with the Trusts business plan, local commissioning intentions, local healthcare alliances and national policy drivers.
To develop annual objectives for Adult Eating Disorders services, with a clear action plan, milestones and monitoring process; and aligned to the Trusts annual objectives; CQC standards and QED accreditation.
To use investment monies, in line with Trust processes, to progress the strategic plans for services.
To develop services and lead change within Adult Eating Disorders services, implementing and evaluating the agreed strategic plans.
If you have any questions or are just curious to know more about the opportunity, please contact Colette Turner. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification in a: clinical, management or leadership field or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Professional registration for nursing or other relevant clinical field.
Desirable
- Management diploma / degree in management / leadership or equivalent vocational training or willingness to undertake training from first year of holding this pos
Experience
Essential
- Leading health or social care services
- Leading service improvement
- Leading service improvement
Desirable
- Experience of managing health and social care integrated services
Skills
Essential
- Ability to help develop a culture that improves quality and safety in service areas
- Ability to communicate with people about difficult matters / in difficult situations across a diverse range of scenarios / situations.
- Ability to develop oneself and others in the area of leadership and service management.
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent working knowledge of wider health and social care system and structures, policies, procedures and legislation relevant to Adult Eating Disorders services.
- Knowledge of management tools, organisational systems and processes relevant to managing in an NHS organisation
- Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and national drivers (10 year forward plan) underpinning services for people with mental health problems
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
Adult Eating Disorders
Resource Centre, Walker Close, Ipswich
Suffolk
IP3 8LY