Deputy Director of All Age Continuing Care

Job summary

Please note this organisation does not hold a sponsorship licence, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require sponsorship.

We are looking for a highly experienced and exceptionally gifted All Age Continuing Care leader to join our senior management team.

You will have current experience working in at a leadership level in All Age Continuing Care and have a comprehensive understanding of the key working relationships needed to support an effective team. This includes working experience and in-depth knowledge of all areas including children's continuing care, continuing healthcare, s117 aftercare, personal health budgets, commissioning, brokerage and social care / care Act interfaces. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and an inclusive leadership style which is supportive of staff and enabling to support the provision of what is a complex service. Above all, you must align with our values and behaviours as we seek to create a vibrant, happy and productive service.

Main duties of the job

The All-Age Continuing Care Team supports over 7,500 clients through a range of funding arrangements including Continuing Healthcare, Section 117 aftercare, specialist placements, Children's Continuing Care and other joint funding and oversight of a budget of £392M.

Our All-Age Team purpose is clear: 'To improve health opportunities and outcomes within our system by delivering seamless, affordable, and individually focused care for those requiring our services.'

Our values and behaviours are:

• Integrity: I keep our shared values at the centre of my conduct and decision-making.
• Compassion: I approach people with kindness and empathy, striving to support the care I would want for my loved ones
• Accountability: I can be trusted to act fairly and honestly, taking ownership for decisions and achieving outcomes.
• Respect: I am professional and courteous, seek opinions and value difference
• Empowerment: I create safe environments where I and others can be curious and innovative.
• If your passion and values align with ours, please contact us for an informal conversation about this post or put in an application to join our team!

About us

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.

We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.

We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

• 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
• NHS pension scheme
• Sick pay policy
• Occupational health services including staff counselling services
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
• Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
• Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.

Job responsibilities

Develop the strategy for NHS All Age Continuing Care, supporting and ensuring alignment across the ICB, removing unwarranted variation and promoting innovation in service delivery.

Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies.

Develop and communicate the vision for NHS All Age Continuing Care in the ICB, engaging with key partners and ensure strategy and policies support this vision.

Identify examples of national best practice to ensure that patients benefit from relevant innovations in NHS All Age Continuing Care.

Continue the improvements in NHS All Age Continuing Care to achieve the standards required in the National Framework NHSE Assurance Framework, S117 of the Mental Health Act.

Drive the transformation of NHS All Age Continuing Care in the ICB to meet the aspirations of the ICB to have a Place-based integrated delivery model that supports joint working with local teams and services.

This job description and person specification are only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

• Professional Registration for the Clinical Delivery arm of AACC - nurse, AHP or social worker.
• Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Proven and significant leadership and management experience in a health or social care environment.
• Proven experience of personally achieving board approvals and leading and delivering complex change programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
• Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
• Extensive Knowledge of NHS All Age Continuing Care.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current health and social care policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.

Desirable

• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the public sector organisations that interface with NHS All Age Continuing Care including the independent market and commissioning organisations.

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

• Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context.
• Strong external communications and board approvals skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
• Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.

Equality and Diversity

Essential

• Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.

Autonomy

Essential

• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.

Other

Essential

• High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
• High level critical thinking skills.
• Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives.
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to single organisation and multiple Board management.
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
• Experience of creating a team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
• Ability to delegate effectively and ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
• Experience of leading change initiatives in a challenging organisational environment.
• Previously responsible for managing and prioritising a large budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with advanced keyboard skills.
• Determination, perseverance, and resilience.
• Flexibility, and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment.
• Ability to travel between locations not accessible via public transport.
• Able to work weekends when required.