Area Service Manager (Adult Acute Inpatients)

This substantive post is for an Area Service Manager for acute inpatients to join our Acute and Assessment Services leadership team. This role is to manage our new and existing female acute inpatient wards and will include Audrey House, our new female Enhanced Care Unit at Kingsway. The role will also lead and support specialist areas within their portfolio inc. ECT, the acute Recreation Hub and SLT teams. The ASM will lead the multi-disciplinary clinical and operational team and ensure it is focused on safe and effective delivery of therapeutic interventions with a trauma informed and person-centred approach to recovery. You will be a key part of our future and people focussed acute team helping to shape how we deliver our mental health services. You will ensure high quality, flexible and responsive service delivery by participating in the planning, development, coordination and evaluation of our services being provided. The postholder will be expected to provide high visibility leadership, driving forward team developments by demonstrating excellent acute knowledge and practice, energising and motivating staff to continually deliver person centred care of the highest quality. Following appointment there will be a period of transition as both the Derby based Acute ASMs support the move across to new separate male and female portfolios covering both the Radbourne Unit (Royal Derby Hospital site), our new Carsington Unit and Audrey House (on the Kingsway Hospital site)., For the area service manager role there are key responsibilities that include:

• To line manage senior nurses (ward managers) and specialist teams within your designated portfolio to ensure they deliver safe and effective services for inpatients.
• To facilitate and enable high-quality, safe and effective acute clinical care and treatment, by ensuring clinical and operational processes are followed.
• To provide operational oversight across the portfolio, ensuring effective and efficient service delivery.
• To work in partnership with the clinical matron to ensure safe, effective and quality acute patient care across the portfolio from an operational and clinical perspective.
• To have oversight of the risks management processes relating to staffing, patient safety within the acute unit and ensure actions are taken to ensure patient and staff safety and mitigate risks.
• To ensure financial viability and efficiency across the service and monitor spending within portfolio.
• To support quality improvement and transformation within acute services to that improve patient care and pathways.
• To work closely with the other ASMs within the division (both Acute and Assessment Services) to provide joined up services.
• To work to a high standard across the CQC KLoE but in particular around providing visible, safe and effective leadership.
  
  Join 'Team Derbyshire' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
  
  Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities