Job overview

18 month fixed term contract / secondment opportunity (see attached form)

Part time considered, depending on candidate

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a committed individual who has proven clinical experience of the management and the delivery of high-quality care for Neurodiverse people. The Service Manager for All Age Neurodevelopmental Services will have responsibility for delivering services to neurodivergent people and their families and carers within Coventry and Warwickshire.

The role involves day-to-day operational management, service development, working across professional and organisational boundaries in the provision of services and generating new solutions that best meet the needs of autistic people and those with other Neurodevelopmental conditions within the ICS.

Key responsibilities are:

  • Ensuring service pathways for Autism and ADHD across the life span deliver against the required trajectories for assessment and interventions
  • Working with clinical leads to operationalise the Neurodiversity offer across CWPT
  • Ensure service delivery is equitable, efficient and effective across all ages
  • Meeting trust targets on training, appraisals, supervision and ensuring the service achieves all standards as required by CQC

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    Main duties of the job

    Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified service, including patient, service activity, performance, quality, finances and staffing matters;

    To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the neurodevelopmental services and LD&A directorate, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce;

    Contribute to services responses to key local and national policy drivers, programmes and initiatives for children and families;

    To deliver child & family and person centred focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements;

    Management of staff;

    Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector, Education and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes;

    Be a member of the extended management & leadership team for the LD&A Directorate and within Rise service.

    Working for our organisation

    The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

    Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

    Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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    Person specification

    Qualifications

    Essential criteria

  • Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent and experience
  • Relevant qualification or significant experience in a clinical field,

    • Knowledge and skills

    Essential criteria

  • Must be able to demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate and present complex information to a variety of internal and external audiences
  • Must be able to demonstrate an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries.
  • Strong understanding of national policy in relation to services for clinical area
  • Good interpersonal and relationship management skills and political acumen;
  • Demonstrable capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
  • Ability to champion a more effective use of technology within the service and new ways of working;
  • Ability to positively motivate staff;
  • Ability to manage poor performance

    • Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Evidence of delivering successful change within a service context, using a range of effective influencing, negotiation, facilitation and process skills
  • Experience of process and service redesign; experience of implementing new pathways of care;
  • Experience and understanding of safeguarding
  • Experience of developing and maintaining monitoring systems to measure service performance or quality and progress on projects and initiative
  • Experience of managing budgets, involvement in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
  • Experience of addressing equality and diversity issues within a service context