Locality Clinical Manager

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Shrewsbury is seeking a motivated leader for the Community Nursing and Therapy Teams. This leadership position involves managing high-performing teams, driving service improvements, and collaborating with various partners to ensure efficient, high-quality care for patients. Candidates need a degree and substantial experience in healthcare management, with proven leadership abilities to successfully guide teams through change. This role offers a significant opportunity for impact in community healthcare.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as an effective leader/service manager in health or related environment.
• Demonstrable experience of the development and delivery of successful service improvements.
• Ability to integrate, build and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide dynamic leadership and management across a range of services.
• Work closely with various partners to deliver personalized community care.
• Ensure high quality and safe care delivery through effective team management.

Skills

Leadership skills

Team management

Crisis management

Change management

Performance improvement

Resource management

Education

Degree level qualification

Masters qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

The opportunity has arisen to become part of the leadership team within Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust. The position covers the Shrewsbury Community Nursing and Therapy Teams in Central Shropshire and includes Specialist Nursing Services. The role is responsible for dynamic leadership and management across the range of services to ensure safe, high quality, responsive, efficient and effective delivery in various settings.

We are looking for motivational, inspiring and innovative leaders who will support the Operational Lead Manager in promoting the Trust’s vision and contributing to the delivery of strategic goals and priorities. The post holder will have a track record of managing high‑performing teams, transforming services, integration and creating environments where staff can deliver high quality and safe care, empowering patients, their families and carers.

The Trust will be at the forefront of transformation improvements, focusing on providing high quality and sustainable community solutions for the people we serve now and in the future. Successful candidates will be able to capitalise upon effective relationships with partners across the ICB, Acute Care, patients and carers, Social Care, Primary Care and the Third sector to provide high‑quality, personalised community care that meets changing needs.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Degree level qualification in an appropriate clinical or non‑clinical subject.
• Appropriate Masters qualification or equivalent experience working across relevant community services in a strategic or operational manager role.
• Evidence of leadership development / professional development.
• Experience of working across systems in an operational manager role.
• Experience of developing services across systems and pathways.
• Proven track record as an effective leader/service manager in health or related environment.
• Experience of leading and managing in a crisis.
• Experience of leading change successfully with evidence of this change being sustained.
• Demonstrable experience of the development, implementation and delivery of successful service improvements informed by patients, families and carers.
• Proven ability to integrate, build and motivate teams to deliver clear outcomes and results to improve the patients, families and carers experience.
• Use of innovation and creativity to redesign and deliver quality improvement based on evidence and best practice, in line with CQC requirements to deliver outstanding care.
• Demonstrable success in delivering performance improvement using business skills to interpret and analyse performance data to inform future delivery and recovery where required.
• Experience of developing strategic direction and delivery plans for a service(s), establishing clear work priorities, delegating effectively and ensuring the capability to deliver and monitor.
• Experience of building successful partnership working arrangements, System wide knowledge in areas such as health, education, public health, safeguarding, financial management, performance management, joint commissioning acquired through training and proven experience over a number of years.
• Good understanding/insight of NHS legislation, SFIs and SOs, employment and health and safety legislation, national standards and service frameworks for care, safeguarding requirements.
• Ability to manage resources, staff and budgets effectively; delivering efficiency and reinvestment targets.
• Results and outcome orientated.
• Knowledge of clinical governance standards.
• Knowledge of benchmarking, research and audit requirements to continuously develop services and improve standards of care.
• Ability to introduce systems and processes to enable services to develop in line with governance and risk requirements.
• Transfer acquired leadership skills – ability to adapt and adjust style to meet the needs of a situation.
• Well developed leadership skills, tools and techniques in areas outlined within the LQF (change management, political intelligence, influencing, engaging and collaboration, creating a vision, communication – verbal and written, interpersonal skills).
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community‑based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. The Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life – and a good work life/home life balance.