Unit Manager - Adults
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour.We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
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Job overview
The Unit Manager for Operations will be responsible for the operational management of all aspects of the Adult Clinical Unit. This key leadership role involves working closely with senior clinical leaders and managers to drive excellence in management, leadership, support, and capacity within the unit.
The post holder will ensure that effective management underpins the leadership of the unit, supporting the Clinical Service Manager and Managing Director to ensure leadership decisions are translated into impactful service delivery. In partnership with the Clinical Lead, the Unit Manager will oversee performance and governance across a portfolio of clinical services across various sites/venues
Main duties of the job- Operational Leadership: Manage all aspects of the Adult Clinical Unit, ensuring services are delivered efficiently, effectively, and within budget. This includes driving cost improvement schemes and delivering the business plan.
- Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement in service delivery, focusing on both efficiency and effectiveness. Use job planning, appraisals, and robust line management to encourage the workforce to work to the top of their license and develop innovative solutions to improve services.
- Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: Ensure the effective communication of operational priorities across a broad range of complex and varied services. Use advanced interpersonal and communication skills to engage with internal and external stakeholders, including service users and a diverse range of Trust staff, to deliver new service models and ways of working.
Also included:
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Reporting and Collaboration
- Wait Times Management
Working for our organisation
The Adult Unit encompasses a broad range of services that address complex needs. It supports individuals across the adult lifespan with a variety of presenting challenges, including our specialist education provision, family services, trauma services, and community-based programs such as our Adult and Children’s Forensic teams and Family Drug and Alcohol Court teams.
This service line operates in a fully multidisciplinary environment, with teams made up of professionals from Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work, Psychotherapy, Nursing, and Family Therapy, all working collaboratively to provide holistic care and support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Master’s degree or equivalent experience
- Management qualification Evidence of continuing personal development
- Experience and/or qualification in Project Management
- Clinical qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant management experience, in the NHS or equivalent organisation
- Evidence of leading change and successful implementation of projects.
- Has experience of putting together a business case and contributing to its implementation
- Experience of participating in regulatory inspections
- Track record of achievement as a leader which demonstrates significant successes through innovation and a strong but sensitive style, which contributes directly to the patient experience and continuous improvement
- Evidence of a collaborative management style coupled with improving quality of service provision at a strategic level
- Evidenced experience of building and sustaining effective and productive working relationships with a range of people at local and regional level including statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations
- Significant experience of financial management and rigorous financial management and control to meet agreed targets
- Experience of instigating and leading complex change to achieve continuous improvement
- Experience of commercial development
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Service planning and project management. Understanding of project and programme management techniques
- Well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust’s and your performance expectations
- Analysis of complex data to produce succinct information appropriate for its audience
- Demonstrates excellent knowledge of access policy and RTT pathways
- Budgetary management skills. Knowledge of strategic financial planning
- Ability to assess situations and take calculated risks based on learning and experience, to achieve longer-term improvements
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.
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Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
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PLEASE NOTE:- The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.
- Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.
- Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date
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