Avon Products - Band 7 IN-CS Women's Pathway Lead - Bristol

Job overview

Within this new service we have developed a brand new role addressing the needs of women within Non-custodial criminal justice services.

There will be a designated female pathway lead, to implement female specific and trauma informed practice, provide training and regular updates on female pathway developments and initiatives and ensure female pathways are co-designed with women with lived experience.

1. To contribute to the achievement of corporate and Strategic Business Unit objectives by leading effective management of the IN-CS Women’s pathway.
2. To take management responsibility for the delivery of services across your nominated responsibility and to ensure safe and effective services for our service users.
3. To work alongside your manager and contribute to help developments in strategic thinking, National Drivers and Trust Policy.
4. To liaise at a local level with Service Users, Carers, Staff and Partners in both statutory and non-statutory fields, ensuring that there is shared understanding of service provision and commitments.
5. To be responsible for the delivery of Health and Safety responsibilities as required by statute, regulation, legal obligation and Trust policies within the defined area you’re responsible for.
6. To ensure full compliance of all staff within the area of operational management, with key mechanisms to support the clinical delivery of safe and affective services, Health and Social Care data entry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

You will receive excellent support and supervision from well-established management and therapies teams. There will be opportunities for continuing professional development and development of innovative research projects. We have close links to the University of Bath, the University of Exeter and the University of South Wales.

Issues of diversity, accessibility and equality of access are priorities for any successful applicant.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide operational management and leadership for all staff and volunteers in the team and area of your responsibility.

Alongside your manager you will ensure the development of Integrated Business Plan and to ensure delivery of key targets in relation to service performance, integrated governance, workforce planning, partnership development and financial sustainability within your team.

To work in close partnership with Service Users, Carers, Clinical Staff, Trust performance Management and Finance Staff, Corporate Services, Human Resources, Community Care, Independent and Not-for-Profit Organisations in the delivery of operational services.

The post holder will contribute to the development of the identity and structure of the area of your responsibility, ensuring clear accountability within their area of responsibility and establishing clear accountability for all key result areas and performance management arrangements to ensure effective service delivery.

Most challenging part of this role:

Delivering a service in the context of short term safety and financial balance, whilst moving towards long term service and financial sustainability.

Working across a large and diverse range of communities within a complex commissioning environment.

1. People leadership and management
2. 1 Provide inclusive, compassionate and effective leadership for your team by setting clear vision and direction.
3. 2 Develop a culture and environment in which members of staff are encouraged and supported to deliver high- quality services and are supported to innovate and improve services where appropriate.
4. 3 Encourage your team to feel able to raise concerns openly and safely.
5. 4 Promote equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment, ensuring that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, religion, creed, colour nationality ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
6. 5 Support prompt recruitment by identifying vacancies to the AWP Recruitment Team as soon as they arise, and participate in the selection and effective induction and on boarding of new joiners to the team.
7. 6 Ensure that all team members have a very positive introduction to the team and a well-supported first year.
8. 7 Take responsibility for encouraging people to stay with AWP, ensuring that you are aware whenever a member of your team is considering leaving, seeking to understand their reasons and encouraging them to stay.
9. 8 Ensure that key messages are cascaded in your team and that your team are encouraged to put forward suggestions.
10. 9 Show appreciation to your team when they do good work and support them when they are struggling.
11. 10 Consider the individual needs of team members for a healthy work-life balance and think about how their needs can be supported by providing flexible ways of working.
12. 11 Support all team members to keep their mandatory and statutory training up-to-date and identify the learning and development needs of all team members of the team ensuring that everyone has an up-to-date personal development plan (PDP).
13. 12 Ensure that every team member as at least an hour of supervision (one-to-one meeting) each month, this may include both managerial and clinical supervision.
14. 13 Ensure all team members receive a constructive assessment of their performance each year and set SMART objectives for the coming year.
15. 14 Seek support from the HR Team to tackle any worries regarding matters of discipline, including both conduct and capability concerns, supporting a ‘just and restorative culture’. Take prompt action regarding serious concerns and ensure clear plans are in place for problems which are less serious in nature but prove difficult to resolve.
16. 15 Act as a positive role model at all times, encouraging people to feel equal members of the team whilst working within clear frameworks and policies.
17. 16 Promote effective use of bank and agency nursing staff, providing a safe and effective service, complying with regulatory standards.

Person specification

Education/ qualification

• 1.Relevant education to degree level or ability to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
• 2.Evidence of continued professional development.

• 1.A professional qualification in either Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work.

Experience

• 1. Significant experience of managing Health and/or Social Care staff and services.
• 2. Experience of developing and implementing new ways of working and procedures.
• 3. Experience of managing complex caseload/workload demands.

Knowledge

• 1. Demonstrates detailed practical knowledge of Mental Health legislation.
• 2. Knowledge of and experience of practical application of good practice in relation to equalities and diversity.

Skills

• 1. High-level analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 2. Excellent communication skills including influencing, negotiation and empathic skills.
• 3. Project management skills.
• 4. Ability to form effective working relationships with other partners patient groups and stakeholders.

This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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