Team Manager, Learning Disability

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has developed in the Greenwich Adult Community Dietetics Team at Oxleas. The service has recently received additional funding from SE London ICS to improve patient outcomes by ensuring consistency of access to adult community health services, and standardising patient outcomes. The post-holder will be responsible for the operational management of the Malnutrition Service ensuring that local targets are met and reported on in a timely and accurate manner. You will carry a clinical caseload and be available to offer support/second opinions to junior colleagues in managing complex cases. The post holder will be responsible for the clinical leadership and operational management for the community-based adult home enteral service provided by Oxleas NHS foundation trust. The post holder will be responsible for day to day management of the Oxleas malnutrition dietetic team, including management of a delegated budget, recruitment, retention and deployment of staff, absence management, managing complaints, procurement and managing resources. Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.


Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. We Care

Provide direct line management and operational support to a team of highly specialist, qualified dietitians, and dietetic assistants.
To provide an efficient and high-quality dietetic service for patients and lead a team of staff who work across one or more specialist clinical areas.
To plan and prioritise the workload and assist less senior staff to organise their caseload within the specialist areas.
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies in order to identify their problems and needs and ensure that patient's medical, biochemical, pharmacological, psychological, social environmental and cultural factors are taken into account.
To be responsible for recruitment and selection, appraisals, formulation of personal development plans, attendance monitoring and recording.
To provide expert advice, teaching and training to other members of the MDT as appropriate, both internal and external to the Trust
To manage staff within the adult malnutrition dietetic team, including recruitment, supervision, appraisal, performance, CPD and performance of team members.
To collaborate and communicate service-related information and changes to senior managers, staff and external agencies within the boundaries of where Oxleas provide services. To ensure the teams involvement in developing business cases in developing specialist care for tube fed patients in the community.
To demonstrate to commissioners and provider services that the service is fit for purpose by writing service line reviews and give formal presentations to senior manager and stakeholders
To be responsible for implementing accurate systems of data collection and analysis which demonstrate the full range of the HEN service activity. This would also be undertaken alongside the operational manager through audit and quality improvement projects.
To be responsible for developing and implementing a HEN Patient Involvement strategy in line with local and national initiatives, to ensure the needs of service users drive service development.
To act as a local resource for HEN services using expertise to advise on innovative service design and implementation of a multi-disciplinary, specialist team.
To manage poor/under performance in the team, patient complaints and report incidents
To co-ordinate staff requests for training, identifying training needs from personal development plans, and supporting staff to access training and clinical supervision.
To plan and lead the annual team away day to ensure staff involvement when evaluating the current service, setting service objectives and planning projects in line with national and trust policy and priorities.
To ensure there is a structured programme of HEN training for healthcare professionals to compliment training from enteral feeding company staff

Degree in Dietetics supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent and experience
oLeadership or management qualification


Evidence of significant experience in adult HEN
experience of workforce and business planning and implementing service developments

Able to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other packages
ability to communicate at all levels, from patients and carers to senior management level, across organisational boundaries
Experience of change management and implementing service developments.
analyse and monitor activity data and budget reports

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Memorial Hospital

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