Head of Service All Age NHS Continuing Healthcare

The post holder will use their expert knowledge lead a multi professional team to provide high quality, safe and personalised care for our population in line with key standards and commitments.The post holder will ensure that the NHS CHC team have the appropriatecompassionate, inclusive and value based leadership and, are professionally managed, clinically supervised and developed to ensure that we retain ourvaluable workforce to deliver the outcomes for the population they serve. In addition that we make best use of NHS resources and understand the needs of the population to ensure we commission and provide the appropriate care. The post holder must have a genuine passion for reducing health and social inequalities and ensuring inclusive practice at all times.

If you have operational and/or clinical leadership experience in continuing healthcare , it would be great to hear from you. The outcomes of these decisions can change lives and provide individuals with a level of self-sufficiency and dignity that they may not otherwise have. That's why a key NHS CHC value is working together for patients for holistic, person-centred care.The journey we are on is an exciting one: we'll know we're succeeding when our staff and our communities can feel and see the difference., This roles leads on quality and patient safety and, has a key role to develop and maintain effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety and quality of services. This role will ensure that appropriate governance processes for oversight are in place and how learning responses are translated into improvement and integrated into wider improvement work across the ICB.The Head of Service - All Age NHS Continuing Health Care will ensurecompliance and contribute to the ICB plans and efficiency targets to ensure robust management of the All Age NHS Continuing Health Care CHC and workforce budget and financial plans. This will contribute to minimise financial risk to the ICB whilst meeting key quality standards and key performance indicators.The Head of Service - All Age NHS Continuing Health Care will lead on continuous service improvement through the use of resources such as data intelligence and feedback from
patients, their families / carers and the system workforce.

Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System brings together local NHS, councils and voluntary, community and faith sectors to better serve our communities. With a population of circa 1.55 million, our vision is for BSOL to be the healthiest place to live and work, driving equity in life chances and health outcomes for everyone. For an chance to be part of the fantastic opportunity we have as an Integrated Care System, apply for this role today.

As a member of our system you will actively demonstrate system values in all that you do. You will be driven to address health inequalities and create an environment that is inclusive for all people.

In return NHS Birmingham and Solihull can offer you the opportunity to thrive and develop in a team that is supportive, ambitious and inclusive. You will have plenty of opportunities to build your skills and experience, with a chance to work with colleagues across our five Provider Trusts, two Local Authorities, voluntary organisations, Integrated Care Board (ICB) and NHS England to truly effect change and add value.

We know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation and are committed to challenging discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity for all, being a fair and inclusive employer, and creating a place of work in which all of us feel we belong.