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Job summary

Main area
community services
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
110-ACS337-0924
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Glanrhyd Hospital
Town
Bridgend
Salary
£51,706 - £58,210 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

Employer heading

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board logo

Integrated Cluster Network Service Manager

Band 8a

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000.  We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the  living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until  the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed

Job overview

 East Integrated Cluster Network Service Manager .

Band 8a/ Grade 15 (Health/Local Authority).

Bridgend Integrated Community Services are seeking to appoint the East Integrated Cluster Network Service Manager , to operationally manage and strategically develop the Integrated Team. The post holder is responsible to both the Local Authority and University Health Board and manages services across these agencies. The Integrated Community Network Team works to develop seamless pathways of care and support for adults with complex needs.

The role will be key in bringing in a multi-disciplinary approach to provide and implement timely professional support for people’s needs. This ensures choice and control for individuals and places the person at the centre of their care. It provides a clear expectation that the person’s voice and choice will be heard. The Teams are ambitious in looking to develop innovative and creative ways to support the individual and those important to them. It works to recognise the changing needs within communities and works collaboratively to meet them.

Main duties of the job

The Team consists of staff from District Nursing; Social Work; Occupational Therapy; Physiotherapy; Community Psychiatric Nursing; Speech and Language Therapy; Dietetic and Pharmacy and links closely with the Third Sector. This holistic approach provides a full offer of support for adults with changing needs in their localities as well as meeting complexity of needs. The manager will provide leadership and vision to the multi-disciplinary team and ensure that safe governance is met. They will  enable staff to support the person they are working with and those important to them through holistic person centred practice. They will lead staff in providing an effective team around the person.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

The post holder will undertake a key role in in the development of the Transformation agenda and Accelerated Cluster working in the East Cluster network area and will work closely with the Cluster Partnership and Primary Care services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will have experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working preferably across traditional organisational boundaries. The Integrated Cluster Network Team’s (ICNT) function is to work in one of three defined geographical cluster networks, in the delivery of preventative, reactive and rehabilitative community health and social care services, as well as the arrangement and delivery of pre-emptive contingency care planning and managed care and support, to the residents of the cluster. The ICNT mainly focusses on adults affected by the issues of frailty, and physically disabled people who are affected by long-term, often complex and adverse conditions.

Applicants should note that an enhanced criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) will be necessary for the successful applicant. For secondments, applicants must have the support of their line manager.

For further information, please contact:

Jason Howells, Integrated Community Services Manager (Bridgend) at [email protected] or [email protected]

 

 

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Managing or leading in multidiciplinary settings
  • Knowledge of Health and social care legislation
Desirable criteria
  • Expereince of leading service change

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of resource management

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are not necessary

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jason Howells
Job title
Integrated Community Services Manager (Bridgend)
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01656 311124
Additional information

Jason Howells, Integrated Community Services Manager (Bridgend) at [email protected] or [email protected]

 

 

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