Deputy Director for Community Health Services

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Leicester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services provider in Leicester is seeking an experienced senior healthcare leader to drive performance and transformation across its community health services. This role involves strategic leadership of diverse clinical services to ensure high-quality patient care and staff experiences. The ideal candidate will demonstrate outstanding leadership skills and a commitment to collaborative working. Flexibility in working patterns is supported.

Benefits

Flexible working policy

Equal opportunities in employment

Comprehensive employee benefits

Qualifications

• Experienced senior healthcare leader with outstanding leadership skills.
• Confidence to drive performance and transformation in a complex environment.
• Effective and visible leader with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for strategic leadership of health service delivery.
• Provide high-level operational and strategic direction.
• Ensure Directorate achieves performance and financial objectives.
• Foster productive relationships to enhance care delivery.

Skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal communication

Strategic direction

Performance management

Job description

Job Overview

Are you a high performing, senior healthcare leader ready for your next challenge?

The Community Health Services directorate within Leicestershire Partnership Trust provides services across several community hospitals, in a wide range of other community settings and in patients’ homes. As the leading community health services provider in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, we provide inpatient and community based services including - sub acute care, all aspects of nursing care to include wound care, health promotion, continence care, general and stroke rehabilitation, end of life care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, podiatry, falls prevention, lymphoedema, all managed through a single point of access for health professionals and patients.

At a system level, the Directorate plays a crucial role in neighbourhood working, ensuring the right care, in the right place at the right time. If patients do require acute hospital admission, we are responsible for ensuring discharge to LPT inpatient settings where required, and subsequently back into services delivered in patients own homes or residential / nursing homes.

This work is complex, requires teams to think beyond traditional organisational boundaries and requires leadership that can effectively engage and work with other systems partners such as University Hospitals of Leicester, local authorities, and other care providers.

Working alongside the CHS Associate Medical Director, Head of Nursing and Quality, and AHP Lead, the Deputy Director will, with the support of the Directorate Leadership Team, be accountable for the strategic leadership of health service delivery and the effective governance of the diverse range of clinical services provided in CHS.

We are looking for an experienced senior healthcare leader, with outstanding leadership skills and confidence to drive performance and transformation in a complex environment, to deliver high-quality outcomes and experiences for patients and staff. The successful candidate will have shown that they are an effective, visible, and approachable leader who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both within and across organisational boundaries.

For further information or an informal conversation with Sam Leak (Director for Community Health Services) please contact Wendy Mills (PA) 07918 996767

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

• Working alongside the CHS Associate Medical Director, Head of Nursing, and AHP Lead, the Deputy Director will, with the support of the Directorate Leadership Team, be accountable for the strategic leadership of health service delivery and the effective governance of the diverse range of clinical services provided in CHS. These include adult community bed-based services and adult community and specialist services.
• Specifically, the post holder will be responsible for providing high level operational and strategic direction, planning and leadership to ensure that the Directorate provides high quality clinical care, which is safe and achieves its performance and financial objectives.
• The post holder will be accountable for what our service users experience and say about our services and what our staff say.
• The post holder will foster productive and positive internal and external relationships to enhance care delivery.
  
  

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.