Service Manager

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This exciting leadership role of a ‘Service Manager’ oversees the Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities (CTPLD), encompassing both Child and Adult and Adult Short Breaks (1 Willow Close), NHFTs specialist 6 bed respite bungalow for adults with severe and profound learning disabilities with complex health needs.
The post holder will utilise their clinical experience, knowledge of national and local drivers and compassionate leadership skills to lead the multidisciplinary teams (MDT) within Adult and Children’s CTPLD. The CTPLD consists of Learning Disability Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Healthcare Assistants, Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatry. The post holder will provide operational management, line management, quality assurance and compliance with regulatory standards for the CTPLD and Adult Short Breaks. This role sits within the Senior Leadership Team for Learning Disabilities within the Mental Health and Learning Disability directorate, with opportunities to develop senior operational and strategic leadership skills.
This will contribute to the delivery of the safe and wellbeing agenda for community based care and treatment, hospital avoidance, reducing health inequalities ensuring the delivery of NHS plan.
The post holder will work alongside the Transforming Care Clinical Service Manager and across the Integrated Care System (ICS) partners in ensuring that people with learning disability and/or autism are supported to live a fulfilling and independent life in the community with the right support and close to home.
Please refer to the attached job descriptions for a full list of duties.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

Please refer the Job description for details