Main duties of the job

Main duties include day-to-day operations providing a managerial link into the team of advanced practitioners, community team leader, district nurses, staff nurses, health care support workers, supporting the teams to deliver high quality safe care by ensuring teams have what they need to undertake their duties . The role requires you work closely with the portfolio lead in ensuring the delivery of safe caring responsive effective well-led services which run 24/7. Being part of the escalation system and utilising appropriate systems to escalate concerns and risks . The operational lead is also key in leading pieces of work including learning reviews and action planning to support the service to learn from errors and implement required changes.

The role also includes other requirements such as:

Complaints investigations

HR investigations

Budget management alongside the portfolio lead  

Be part of the on-call rota for the Trust 

Developing new initiatives in line with Trust values and increasing productivity.

Working for our organisation

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: - 

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference 

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs 

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities