Band 8a Locality Integration Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the role as 'Locality Integration Manager'. Working as part of the developing 'Community Care Collaborative' each locality manager will cover one locality in Birmingham or Solihull. As a senior change leader, you will work across the wider health and social care system to support the integration of services on a locality and neighbourhood level. You will work with system partners to support the development of one of the six locality partnerships in Birmingham and Solihull and the mobilisation of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INT's) within that locality.
This role will lead with the development of integrated ways of working across all providers supporting the health and care for the population of a locality. The post holder will be responsible for implementing and transforming the locality development, providing operational support to the Locality Delivery Partnership and INT's where required.
The role will be instrumental in establishing local governance, operational systems and processes. It will ensure there is a clear communication and engagement framework for the locality., Reporting to the Senior Locality Integration Manager you will work with system partners to support the development of one of the five locality partnerships in the Birmingham Community Integrator (Primary care and Community Provider Collaborative) and the delivery of Community Care Collaborative workstreams within that locality.
This role will lead with the development of integrated ways of working across all providers supporting the health and care for the population of a locality. The post holder will be responsible for implementing and transforming the locality development, providing transformational operational support where required.
The post is anticipated to evolve to support the development of the Community Care Collaborative and will enable the development and mobilisation of integrated Locality Operating Model. The post holder will, through collaboration with Operational colleagues, support with the allocation of non-recurrent resource across the respective services forming part of the transformation programme(s). This will include the rota management, demand and capacity modelling, clinic/slot utilisation, management of DNA and cancellation rates as well as overseeing recruitment and retention of workforce across the respective services. In addition, the post holder will act as a point of escalation for staff within the service where issues linked to the transformation are identified as impacting on service delivery.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you., Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a 'Great Place to Work'. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Benefits of working for us:
+ Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
+ Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
+ Discounts for local and national retailers
+ Dedicated well-being services for all employees
+ Flexible working where possible