Deputy Director for Redbridge Health & Social Services

Deputy Director for Redbridge Health & Social Services

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Redbridge Health and Social Services is looking for an experienced Deputy Director to lead and deliver ambitious plans to redesign and transform our community health and social services to prevent, delay and reduce resident's health & care needs. The right candidate will have excellent track records in both adult health and adult social care with rapid service turnarounds, complex financial management, demand management, extensive care pathway redesign and service transformation that put prevent avoidable hospital admissions and promote earlier discharge from hospitals back into the community.

If you have the above experience and you would like a new challenge then I would urge you to book for an informal in person visit in Redbridge before you consider submitting your application.

Main duties of the job

1. To lead on Health and Social Care service redesign and transformation
2. To lead on health and Social Care efficiency saving plans
3. To lead on avoidable admission prevention to acute hospitals and an earlier supported discharge from acute hospitals back into the community
4. To lead on Redbridge Business, Performance and Transformation service
5. To lead on Central Reassessment and Review team.

About us

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

On-call payment

This post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts payment of 0.75% of the basic salary.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached JD and PS.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters or experience
• Professional Qualification

Experience

• Number of years of experience at senior management, track record for large scale transformation, turn arounds
• Clinical Audit

Knowledge

• Health and Social Care priorities, CQC, Key Policies, Leadership
• Commissioning and national health & social care policies

Skills

• Communication, partnership, values, decision making, conflict management, evaluation, Continuous improvements, inspire trust at SU & senior management, perform well under pressure,
• Build alliances, empower to build culture of achievement,

Other

• Participative and supportive management style, stamina & resilience

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.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

£88,168 to £101,677 a yearpa (plus HCAS and On-call Allowance)