Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough LeadBand 8c Main area: Associate Director of AHP & Haringey BoroughLead Grade: Band 8c Contract: Permanent (may be required to workon-call and/or weekend if required by the service) Hours: Full time- 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 220-WHT-3012 Employer: WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust Employer type: NHS Site: Whittington HospitalTown: London Salary: £82,462 - £93,773 per annum plus (Inner LondonWeighting) Salary period: Yearly Closing: 30/03/2025 23:59 Joboverview Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough Lead TheWhittington Health Adult Community Service is seeking to recruit anew Associate Director of AHP for the Adult Community Services –who also acts as our Borough Lead for Haringey. We are looking foran excellent AHP leader who will bring an appreciation of communityworking and will share our excitement about the significantpotential for growth and development of services in the community.Are you feeling up for the challenge? Then please apply now!Whittington Health is an integrated care organisation providinghospital and community care services to people living in Islingtonand Haringey and other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield,Camden and Hackney. We have over 4,400 staff delivering care acrossnorth London, and a highly-regarded educational role as part of theUCL Medical School. As an integrated care organisation, we bringhigh-quality services closer to home and speed up communicationbetween community and hospital services, improving our patients’experience. Our Adult Community Services has a CQC ‘Outstanding’rating and a relentless focus on continuous improvement,innovation, and integration. Main duties of the job Reporting toour Director of Operations (Adult Community Services) as a memberof the quadrumvirate leadership team, and working closely with theTrust’s Chief Nurse, you will provide senior clinical leadershipand will lead operational management at Borough level for Haringey.Key responsibilities will include: - Working with the ClinicalDirector and Director of Operations to lead all Adult CommunityServices activities and deputise for the Director of Operations asappropriate. - Acting as the lead professional for AHP &Nursing in Adult Community Services and being an advocate forpatients, clients, and their families in the achievement ofclinical excellence. - Delivering safe and high-quality communityservices across all our teams. - Providing system leadership forthe service to drive through best practice changes to ensure thatclinical outcomes for patients, clients, and their familiescontinually improve. - Championing strong collaboration acrossclinical pathways and ensuring the engagement of other services tomaintain patient flow across the hospital and the community system.- Playing a significant role in the strategic development of AdultCommunity Services, developing business cases to support funding,defining ongoing strategic direction through robust annualplanning, multi-agency working, and report writing. Personspecification Knowledge & Experience - Demonstrable capabilityand capacity for clinical service management at a senior level in alarge, complex healthcare environment, including staff management,financial management, and change management. - Minimum of 3 yearsprevious senior managerial experience in a large and complexorganisation preferably within the NHS. - A good understanding ofthe changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to communityservices. - A detailed understanding of the national communityservices agenda – both legislative and direction of travel. -Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with andthrough your management and clinical teams. - Ability to analysecomplex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions toaddress them. - Ability to think and plan strategically, tacticallyand creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face ofcompeting demands. - Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines andwithin resources. Previous experience of managing communityservices. - Ability to manage budgets, including reducing costs,monitoring, and determining corrective actions. Skills &Abilities - Excellent inter-personal and communications skills,with a track record in writing complex business cases and policies.- Advanced keyboard skills and knowledge of a full range of ITsoftware including databases. - Sound political judgement andastuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, anddiverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief“up the line.” - Make things happen by working in partnership withothers and using the highest level influencing and negotiatingskills. - High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drivefor performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach andattitude. - Ability to manage sensitive and politically sensitiveissues. - Ability to deal with exposure to verbal and physicalaggression. Education & Qualifications - University degree orequivalent professional qualification. - Hold a relevantprofessional clinical qualification (AHP or Nursing). - NMC orHealth Professions Council registration. - MSc/MA relevant to post.Personal Qualities - A strong sense of personal and teamaccountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundariesaround delegated authority. - Ability to relate to people of alldisciplines and at all levels within the organisation. -Self-motivated and autonomous. - Highly developed leadership andinfluencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate andinvolve others. - Ability to be intellectually flexible and to lookbeyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries andorganisations to produce more effective and innovative servicedelivery and partnerships. - Flexible and adaptable to meetdeadlines, commitments, and priorities. - A sense of humor with themotivation required for delivery of targets and priorities. - Soundpolitical judgement with high levels of emotional resilience.SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS To comply with the Trust’sSafeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures, andprotocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have aduty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, youngpeople, and vulnerable adults. - Ensure you are familiar with andcomply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocolsfor promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and youngpeople. - Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London MultiAgency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures. -Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systemsfor information sharing. - Know the appropriate contact numbers andrequired reporting lines. - Participate in required training andsupervision. - Comply with required professional boundaries andcodes of conduct. Whittington Health is committed to safeguardingall children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff andvolunteers to share this commitment. Your application form -Provide only business email address for your referees – we areunable to request references from Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts. -Make sure you include all evidence of where you meet the essentialrequirements on the job description as this forms the base of ourshortlisting criteria. Other important information - Applicationsfrom job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK arewelcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointmentplease check that you are eligible under the UKVI points-basedsystem. - Applications are welcome from people wishing to job shareor work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, aspart of pre-employment checks your identity and right to workdocumentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances),using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID.Please note that during the recruitment process your IdentityDocumentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will bescanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and MachineReadable Zone security features of the documents provided. Thisvacancy may close early if it receives a high number ofapplications. Please complete and submit your application in goodtime to avoid disappointment. Name: Anthony Rafferty Job title:Director of Operations Email address: Telephonenumber: Additional information: For furtherinformation and/or to arrange a date and time to discuss the role,please contact Anthony Rafferty via his PA at .#J-18808-Ljbffr
