Deputy Director

NHS; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) invites applications for an Interim Deputy Director post within Bedfordshire Community Health Services. The role focuses on providing leadership and operational management for community health services, maintaining strong partnerships and delivering neighbourhood-based care models.

The successful candidate will bring substantial management experience in health services, a proven ability to lead change, and excellent communication across diverse stakeholders,

Qualifications

• Qualified to degree level.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Substantial management experience including significant change in health services.
• Experience developing effective partnership working with service users and carers.
• Proven partnership working with statutory, voluntary and community sectors.
• Knowledge of legislation and statutory responsibilities of health and social care agencies.
• Ability to lead change and secure ownership across multiple disciplines.
• Ability to motivate and engage staff and carers from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong interagency and partnership working skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to plan strategically with a range of stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret data to inform service development, including equity considerations.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and operational management for community health services in Bedfordshire to meet regulatory and contractual obligations.
• Manage risks effectively and maintain relationships with partners and external agencies.
• Oversee district nursing, palliative care, specialist nursing and community therapy services.
• Lead development of neighbourhood-based care models to bring services closer to home.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and lead place-level partnerships.
• Lead transformation to reflect local and national strategy.

Skills

Strategic planning

Partnership development

Change management

Staff motivation

Interagency collaboration

Communication skills

Negotiation

Data interpretation

Education

Degree-level qualification

Continuing professional development

Job description

East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for providing high quality, accessible and responsive mental and adult community health care services within East London and Bedfordshire and Luton. The Trust is a key partner within the Central East Integrated Care System (ICS) and has an important role in the integration of health and social care services within the emerging neighbourhood health approach.

We are committed to collaborative working with system partners to ensure good outcomes are achieved for our service users, patients, families and carers and we achieve this through our dynamic and compassionate frontline teams who deliver high quality outcome focussed care. Our staff, working under the leadership and direction of the Directorate Management Team are constantly striving for the best for our population.

Bedfordshire Community Health Services has anexciting opportunity for an Interim Deputy Directorpost to join our Directorate Management Team at this exciting time of change within health and social care and are seeking confident, authentic, innovative leaders who have considerable experience within health and social care systems and are committed to co-production and compassionate leadership.

Main duties of the job

The Deputy Director for Bedfordshire Community Health Services provides leadership and operational management for the community health services in Bedfordshire in order to meet regulatory, business plans and contractual obligations, managing risks effectively and ensuring effective relationships are maintained with all our partners and external agencies. The post holder holds operational responsibility for district nursing, palliative care, specialist nursing and community therapy services whilst working alongside the Deputy Director for unplanned care (Bedfordshire and Luton wide role). This senior role will foster a culture that facilitates high staff morale and excellent service user experience.

The post holder will support, contribute and where appropriate lead the development of neighbourhood based models of care that support the delivery of shifting care closer to home, improved population health and more proactive and preventative care. They will work in collaboration with key stakeholders and take a lead role at place level in the development and maintenance of partnership arrangements, supporting the implementation of the Trusts Community Health strategy.

The successful candidate will be an experienced health or social care professional in an operational clinical or non-clinical capacity, have the knowledge and experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams, delivery of services and leading transformation to reflect local and national strategy.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details of the duties and responsibilities of the role

Person Specification

Education, qualification and training

• Qualified to degree level
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

• Substantial relevant management experience including experience of shaping and delivering significant change in health services.
• Experience of developing effective partnership working with service users and carers.
• Proven effective partnership working with statutory, voluntary and community sectors

Knowledge and Skills

• Detailed knowledge of legislation and the statutory responsibilities of health and social care agencies.
• Ability to lead and manage change, securing ownership and commitment to shared vision and objectives across disciplines and organisations.
• Ability to manage, motivate and engage staff, service users and carers from a variety of professional and organisational backgrounds, identifying, securing commitment to, and implementing new ways of working across traditional boundaries.
• Ability to identify and resolve conflict effectively
• Ability to model and promote equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice and service delivery.
• Ability to deal effectively and constructively with issues of poor performance, conduct etc.
• Highly developed skills in interagency and partnership working.
• Negotiating, influencing and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to plan strategically and work closely with a range of stakeholders, including system partners, staff and communities in planning future service provision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to interpret data and synthesise complex information from a range of sources to inform service development planning and improvement, including through an equity lens.
• Ability to use demand and capacity modelling and quality improvement methologies to inform service planning and improvement
• Ability to understand and use up-to-date digital technology.
• Sets objective measurements; develops and monitors systems for organising work and information

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.