Head of Forensic Services

3 weeks ago

Stafford, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and we can offer you:

- Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
- Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- “In our Gift” providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
- The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
- Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
- Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
- Child Care Vouchers Scheme
- Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
- NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

The Head of the Forensic Services will have overall operational management responsibility for the defined service function within the Specialist Care Group. Working as part of a senior leadership team in their function, including professional leads, they will be responsible and accountable for effective service line management, operational delivery, workforce, quality and safety within their area of responsibility. The Head of Forensics Services will ensure appropriate governance is in place for their service and will be responsible for ensuring services are transformed in line with national and local priorities and that services meet contractual and internal performance requirements. Working with the Director of Operations, Head of Operations, other Heads of Services & the Clinical & Care Director, as part of a leadership team for the Specialist Care Group the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that services are integrated around the needs of service users. This will include facilitating work on integrated pathways and ensuring representation of their service at appropriate forums. This post holder will be responsible for working closely with colleagues across the Trust to ensure consistency of delivery of services across Care Groups.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

**Engagement, Leadership and People Management Responsibilities**:
- Line management of service managers and professional leads
- Ensuring the service is a great place to work, embedding a devolved culture, ensuring we respond to listening into action feedback.
- Role modelling MPFT behavioural framework to colleagues within their functions.
- Whilst holding staff to account against objectives and valid measures of performance, coach Service Managers and Team Leads to be effective, self-reliant and proactive leaders in the organisation.
- Working collectively as part of a senior leadership team for the care group to ensure integration of services across functions, geographies and pathways.
- Developing effective relationships with key internal and external partners and ensuring leadership of services across the system

Human Resource Management
- Undertake supportive and effective line management of those staff reporting directly to them.
- Manage in a methodical manner, holding Service Managers and Team Leads to account; address and manage poor performance as it is encountered.
- Ensure that all staff have access to appropriate line management and clinical supervision in line with Trust policies.
- Ensure the provision of an annual performance management cycle/appraisal across the Departments within their function and that colleagues are managed in line with Trust polices.
- Ensuring training needs are identified and colleagues receive appropriate training in line with statutory and mandatory obligations, key strategic areas of need for the care group and in line with service delivery priorities.
- Undertake robust workforce planning and ensure that work force re-design opportunities are identified and considered to ensure effective use of Care Group resources and maximises a flexible workforce; ensure that resources and skill mix are optimised and employed to greatest effect.
- Undertake disciplinary and serious incident investigations, present disciplinary cases and chair disciplinary panels as required.

Budgetary, Commercial and Contractual Responsibilities
- Ensure that Standing Financial Instructions are adhered to at all times.
- Working with care Group Accountants set, manage and monitor budgets within the function, ensuring ser

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