Community Learning Disability Service Manager

Pennine Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Community Learning Disability Services Manager (Band 8a) at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust leads specialist community learning disability services, including the Bury Specialist Community Learning Disability Team, providing clinical and operational leadership and contributing to strategic development.

You will work with commissioners, local authorities and other partners to improve outcomes, drive integration and ensure services are safe, person-centred and well-led in line with national

Job description

Job summary

The Community Learning Disability Services Manager (Band 8a) is responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership for specialist community learning disability services, including the Bury Specialist Community Learning Disability Team. The post holder is a senior leader within the Learning Disability Directorate, contributing to strategic development, service transformation and continuous quality improvement in line with Trust and system priorities.

The role focuses on delivering safe, effective, person-centred and well-led services, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory and commissioning requirements. The post holder works in close partnership with people with learning disabilities, families, carers, commissioners, local authorities and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to improve outcomes, promote integration across health and social care, and ensure services reflect Trust values, national policy and best practice.

Main duties of the job

The post holder leads the planning, development, delivery and performance management of community learning disability services, ensuring high-quality care within agreed resources and budgets. This includes establishing robust clinical governance arrangements, safeguarding systems, risk management processes and compliance with statutory, regulatory and CQC requirements.

Key responsibilities include leading service transformation and integration, supporting innovative practice, and ensuring the voice of people with learning disabilities drives service design and quality improvement. The role requires strategic oversight of financial management, including responsibility for borough budgets, efficiency plans and service redesign, ensuring services are cost-effective and meet agreed service specifications.

The post holder provides professional, clinical and managerial leadership to senior staff and multidisciplinary teams, promoting engagement, learning, research, development and continuous improvement. They are responsible for workforce planning, performance appraisal, staff wellbeing and effective communication across services. The role also involves managing complaints, serious incidents and complex clinical matters, contributing to on-call arrangements, and maintaining strong partnerships with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary sector organisations and wider system stakeholders.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Benefits

We will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job responsibilities

The Community Learning Disability Services Manager (Band 8a) is responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership Bury Specialist Community Learning Disability Team. The post holder is accountable to the Associate Director within the Learning Disability Directorate and is a key member of the senior management team.

The role has overall responsibility for ensuring services are safe, effective, caring, responsive and wellled, in line with commissioning requirements, statutory frameworks, national policy and Trust values. The post holder plays a central role in shaping and delivering Trust and system priorities, including service transformation, integration across health and social care, and continuous quality improvement for people with learning disabilities.

The post holder works in close partnership with people with learning disabilities, families and carers, commissioners, local authorities, clinicians, senior managers and wider system stakeholders. The role requires advanced leadership, sound financial and performance management, strong governance oversight, and the ability to manage highly complex clinical, operational and organisational challenges.

Service Leadership and Delivery

• Provide overall leadership for specialist community learning disability services, ensuring delivery of effective, efficient and highquality clinical pathways in line with commissioning specifications and available resources.
• Develop, implement and oversee clinical and operational systems that support safe, effective, responsive and personcentred care.
• Ensure services reflect Trust values and national policy, and are continuously improved through quality improvement, benchmarking and innovation.
• Lead and support service transformation programmes, working collaboratively with people with learning disabilities, families, carers, commissioners and partner organisations.
• Support the integration agenda by working closely with community services, mental health services and local authority partners in line with locality, Trust and Greater Manchester Learning Disability strategies.

Governance, Quality and Safeguarding

• Ensure robust clinical governance arrangements are in place and operating effectively, in partnership with the Head of Quality for Learning Disability Services.
• Ensure compliance with statutory regulation, legal frameworks and Care Quality Commission (CQC) fundamental standards.
• Maintain effective systems for risk management, health and safety, patient safety and learning from incidents.
• Oversee safeguarding arrangements for children and adults, ensuring policies are followed, concerns are acted upon promptly, and lessons learnt are embedded into practice.
• Lead the effective management of complaints, serious concerns and allegations, ensuring timely resolution in line with Trust and partner organisation procedures.

Clinical Leadership

• Provide professional and clinical leadership across services, ensuring multidisciplinary teams are actively involved in service planning, decisionmaking and quality improvement.
• Offer senior clinical advice and expertise on complex assessment and intervention, particularly for individuals presenting with severely challenging behaviour or complex needs.
• Promote evidencebased practice, reflective learning, research and development across services.

Financial and Performance Management

• Hold responsibility for boroughbased budgets for learning disability services, including delegated financial accountability.
• Monitor financial performance, identify pressures early, and report to the Associate Director or Service Director as required.
• Work with senior leaders and finance colleagues on efficiency programmes, service redesign and costeffectiveness.
• Act as an authorised signatory and ensure services meet required standards within agreed service level agreements and contracts.

Workforce Leadership and Management

• Provide line management to senior staff as required and ensure robust systems are in place for staff appraisal, job planning and performance management.
• Ensure effective communication systems are in place so staff are informed, engaged and involved in decisions that affect them.
• Promote strong multidisciplinary team working and positive staff engagement across services.
• Support workforce development through shared learning, new ways of working across professional and organisational boundaries, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the Learning Disability oncall rota as required.

Partnership Working and External Relationships

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with commissioners, local authorities, service user groups, police, voluntary sector organisations and wider system partners.
• Promote the services positively at local, regional and national level.
• Ensure the involvement of service users and families in operational and strategic planning and decisionmaking.

Policy, Equality and Professional Responsibilities

• Ensure full compliance with Trust policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in service delivery and employment practice.
• Maintain professional standards of conduct and ensure continued professional development and mandatory training compliance.
• Adhere to confidentiality, information governance and data protection requirements at all times.
• Comply with health and safety, infection prevention and control policies and report incidents appropriately.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience at a senior management level
• Experience of working in, managing and developing multi-disciplinary LD Services
• Experienced in supporting people with complex and challenging needs.
• Exposure to service, financial and staff management at a senior level
• Experience of service redesign
• Experience of leading quality improvement and change processes

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant health or social care professional qualification and registration
• Post graduate diploma or equivalent experience which can be evidenced
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Evidence of management training

Desirable

• Post graduate study in research methodology
• Clinical Supervision qualification

Knowledge

Essential

• Detailed understanding of government policy in relation to LD services and wider health and social care agenda
• Detailed knowledge of national targets and requirements
• Highly developed specialist knowledge across a range of learning disability areas of practice

Desirable

• Working knowledge of implementing programmes of health improvement and national policy implementation

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to lead and manage a team
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• Ability to utilise IT effectively
• Excellent report writing skills
• Ability to critically analyse data
• Ability to build confidence with local stakeholders and professionals
• Ability to experience leading, motivating and empowering others to reach organisational goals, especially within complex multi- professional environments
• Managing change and coping with ambiguity
• Excellent communicator - both orally and written
• Ability to demonstrate effective people and management skills
• Project management skills

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).