Quality and Safety Nursing Professional ManagerNHS

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Children's Continuing Care (CCC) Team Leader to join our All Age Continuing Care Service. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated team supporting children and young people with complex health needs across South Yorkshire.

As a Team Leader, you will play a key role in ensuring high-quality, person-centred care whilst supporting the delivery of the National Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing Care and relevant NHS guidance.

You will work with our existing team Leader to provide day-to-day operational leadership and professional support to a team of case managers responsible for coordinating care packages for children and young people with highly complex and continuing healthcare needs.

Working closely with families, providers, education, social care colleagues and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will ensure that services are safe, effective, responsive and delivered in line with statutory requirements and organisational objectives.

We are looking for a compassionate and experienced leader who is passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people and their families.

We are committed to delivering high quality, equitable and person-centred care for children and young people with complex health needs. We value compassion, collaboration, inclusion and continuous improvement, and we are looking for leaders who share these values.

Main duties of the job

• Provide operational and professional leadership to Children's Continuing Care staff.
• Support the assessment, review and commissioning of care packages for children and young people with complex health needs.
• Ensure compliance with the National Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing Care and associated NHS policies.
• Manage staff performance, wellbeing, supervision and development.
• Provide expert advice and guidance relating to complex case management and eligibility processes.
• Lead on quality assurance, governance, risk management and service improvement initiatives.
• Develop effective partnerships with local authorities, education providers, acute services, community services and independent sector providers.
• Support service transformation and continuous improvement across the All Age Continuing Care Service.
• Contribute to workforce planning, recruitment and staff development activities.

Job description

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

About us

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer