Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough Lead

Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough Lead Band 8c

Main area: Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough Lead
Grade: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent (may be required to work on-call and/or weekend if required by the service)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 220-WHT-3012

Employer: Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Whittington Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £82,462 - £93,773 per annum plus (Inner London Weighting)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/03/:59

Job overview

Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough Lead

The Whittington Health Adult Community Service is seeking to recruit a new Associate Director of AHP for the Adult Community Services - who also acts as our Borough Lead for Haringey.

We are looking for an excellent AHP leader who will bring an appreciation of community working and will share our excitement about the significant potential for growth and development of services in the community.

Are you feeling up for the challenge? Then please apply now!

Whittington Health is an integrated care organisation providing hospital and community care services to people living in Islington and Haringey and other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. We have over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London, and a highly-regarded educational role as part of the UCL Medical School. As an integrated care organisation, we bring high-quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients' experience.

Our Adult Community Services has a CQC 'Outstanding' rating and a relentless focus on continuous improvement, innovation, and integration.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to our Director of Operations (Adult Community Services) as a member of the quadrumvirate leadership team, and working closely with the Trust's Chief Nurse, you will provide senior clinical leadership and will lead operational management at Borough level for Haringey. Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations to lead all Adult Community Services activities and deputise for the Director of Operations as appropriate.
• Acting as the lead professional for AHP & Nursing in Adult Community Services and being an advocate for patients, clients, and their families in the achievement of clinical excellence.
• Delivering safe and high-quality community services across all our teams.
• Providing system leadership for the service to drive through best practice changes to ensure that clinical outcomes for patients, clients, and their families continually improve.
• Championing strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensuring the engagement of other services to maintain patient flow across the hospital and the community system.
• Playing a significant role in the strategic development of Adult Community Services, developing business cases to support funding, defining ongoing strategic direction through robust annual planning, multi-agency working, and report writing.

Person specification Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable capability and capacity for clinical service management at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare environment, including staff management, financial management, and change management.
• Minimum of 3 years previous senior managerial experience in a large and complex organisation preferably within the NHS.
• A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to community services.
• A detailed understanding of the national community services agenda - both legislative and direction of travel.
• Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands.
• Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources. Previous experience of managing community services.
• Ability to manage budgets, including reducing costs, monitoring, and determining corrective actions.

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, with a track record in writing complex business cases and policies.
• Advanced keyboard skills and knowledge of a full range of IT software including databases.
• Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line."
• Make things happen by working in partnership with others and using the highest level influencing and negotiating skills.
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.
• Ability to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues.
• Ability to deal with exposure to verbal and physical aggression.

Education & Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent professional qualification.
• Hold a relevant professional clinical qualification (AHP or Nursing).
• NMC or Health Professions Council registration.
• MSc/MA relevant to post.

Personal Qualities

• A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
• Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation.
• Self-motivated and autonomous.
• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve others.
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
• Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments, and priorities.
• A sense of humor with the motivation required for delivery of targets and priorities.
• Sound political judgement with high levels of emotional resilience.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures, and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form

• Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
• Make sure you include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirements on the job description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Other important information

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID.

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided.

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Name: Anthony Rafferty
Job title: Director of Operations
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Telephone number:
Additional information: For further information and/or to arrange a date and time to discuss the role, please contact Anthony Rafferty via his PA at .