Deputy Head of Disability Services

1 week ago


Brighton East Sussex, United Kingdom Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has become available for a highly motivated, innovative and experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join the team of AHP leads within our Planned Care Division. We are looking for an individual who is motivated to deliver safe, high-quality care to children, young people, and families in Brighton and Hove and West Sussex. Collaborative working across the services in the interest of children and young people is actively encouraged, to share best practice and make efficient use of resources.
The Deputy Clinical Head of Service will provide strong professional clinical leadership support and specialist clinical advice across the services within their portfolio.
The role will support the Clinical Head of Service and will be a visible and accessible presence for their teams. The post holder will support the Head of Service and Clinical Heads of Service to continually improve equitable patient care, experience, access and outcomes and assist with the implementation of national and Trust initiatives.
The post holder will support the Clinical Head of Service in developing the service to meet the population's needs and to ensure services provide safe, effective, personalised and evidence-based clinical interventions and holistic care.
The post holder will be a role model for leadership, training, coaching, and facilitating staff development at all levels. The post holder will be expected to provide a clinical perspective on pathways within their portfolio and support the implementation within the modernisation and changing environment of all service areas.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. 3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
Excellent training and development opportunities
Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

To lead the clinical team leads of the relevant services and provide professional and clinical leadership to the teams in their portfolio, to ensure that all clinical staff are appropriately managed and are clinically and professionally developed so that they are, therefore, efficient, effective, engaged and highly motivated.
# To provide robust assurance to the Clinical Head of Service for quality governance within their portfolio to demonstrate safe and effective care.
# Implement the Trust's clinical priorities and strategies ensuring clinical staff are engaged and connected to the objectives and plans as delegated by the Clinical Head of Service.
# Maintain a highly visible and accessible leadership profile and, through the provision of effective leadership, enable clinical change and service improvement for teams in their portfolio.
# Experience in a leadership role including contributing to operational management of services
Experience in management of health services
Experience of monitoring, analysing and assessing clinical operational performance
Experience of drafting, implementation and monitoring of remedial action plans.
Experience in drafting service level business plans, local standard operating procedures and policies.
Experience of staff management, including recruitment and retention of staff, performance management, and managing sickness absence, and misconduct.
Experience of managing staff including appraisal and personal development planning.
Experience of partnership working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory service providers
Experience of assessing risks across clinical services and developing risk management plans.
Experience of business and operational planning.

Knowledge of Human Resource Policies and Procedures.
Knowledge of clinical and operational governance and its application to services.
Knowledge of clinical operational processes, including budget management, target setting, and action planning and performance management.
Ability to monitor and maintain standards of care within clinical services.
Ability to identify, assess and manage clinical and operational risks.
Able to translate complex information to make it meaningful to staff at all levels and across all professions both verbally and in writing.
Excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills and ability to manage and deliver to agreed deadlines.
Able to work as part of a team, using own and others skills and adopting a coaching style to drive individual and organisational performance.

Postgraduate qualification in management or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience.
Evidence of continuous professional/leadership/management development.

Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the job.


Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Brighton General Hospital



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