Inpatient Service Manager (part time-job share)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities to be found in the supporting document which contains more information about the role.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A relevant professional qualification in nursing, or AHP and current registration with the relevant professional body
• Post‑graduate leadership qualification or equivalent experience
• Willingness to work towards continued professional and practice development through leadership training or courses

Desirable criteria

• Additional leadership qualification
• Masters level qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post‑qualification experience of working in a statutory Health or Social Care setting demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility, preferably in a multi‑disciplinary team
• Substantial experience of leading, managing and motivating staff including performance management and staff development to deliver high quality results
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and integrated working
• Experience of achieving positive outcomes for patients and through multi‑disciplinary and partnership working
• Experience of managing successful change programmes, working across service areas to improve and develop service delivery
• Experience of identifying and managing risk in line with Inter‑Agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures
• Experience of managing budgets effectively
• Experience of managing and reporting on performance data and targets
• Experience of recent involvement in practice/service development
• Experience of facilitating and delivering training
• Experience of professional supervision of staff
• Experience of audit/ evaluating clinical practice

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a rehabilitation/enablement or intermediate care context
• Experience of managing an Inpatient unit

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate a commitment to the trust values (Care, Respect, Communication)
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing, including use of financial and activity data, report writing, presenting, negotiating and the use of IT
• Excellent presentation skills in communicating with and engaging a wide variety of stakeholders, including service users and carers, multi‑professional staff groups, partner agencies and senior management
• Effective role‑modelling, collaborative and multi‑agency working
• Act as a decision maker and advocate
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data for service evaluation and development
• Application of sources of research and research methods to evaluate and enhance practice
• Ability to provide supervision, critical companionship and support to team members; evidence of continued professional development; knowledge of relevant policies and national strategy

Other Attributes

Essential criteria

• Puts people at the centre of everything they do
• Innovative and forward‑thinking
• Be a role model of the behaviours, values and skills of health and social care
• Able to work as a team member being flexible, reliable and committed
• Ability to demonstrate empathy, sensitivity and tact
• Able to problem‑solve
• Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of people and the service
• Confident and self‑motivated
• Flexibility and creativity
• Ability to operate effectively with a constantly developing relationship with key stakeholders and associated agencies
• Ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy

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