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This is an exciting opportunity to join NHS Forth Valley and Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership in a new role leading and developing our Out of Hours services.
Please note this is an indicative AFC Band 8B, pending evaluation.
We are looking for an exceptional, experienced leader to lead and support the ongoing development of the Out of Hours service in line with national and local developments and policies.
Out of Hours services are delivered across secondary, primary care, local authority, NHS24, SAS and other key stakeholders including third sector providers. The aim of the post is to ensure the effective delivery of out of hour’s primary care services, and develop opportunities for further integrated working across the wide range of out of hour’s services to support people in their communities. Key to the success of this role will be a collaborative leadership approach and a focus on the achievement of performance standards across the services.
A key element of this role will be to ensure that effective corporate staff and clinical governance structures are in place and deliver corporate governance by implementing effective operational financial controls in line with corporate processes. You will be responsible for a significant budget and be required to manage, audit and monitor the budget to ensure delivery and future service design within available resource. Given the nature of the portfolio, the post holder will be required to work flexibly.
This post combines the strategic development and leadership of Out of Hours planning and delivery across the NHS Forth Valley area, with line management of the specialist medical and nursing multi-disciplinary workforce. The post-holder will interpret national, regional and local policies and guidance to develop inter-agency and interdisciplinary strategic plans. The post-holder is required to establish strong working relationships with a variety of staff, departments, stakeholders and partner organisations including senior NHS, Council and Partnership managers, clinicians, GPs, partner organisation management teams and community planning partners. Maintaining excellent working relationships with national and regional bodies, Universities and networks is a critical part of the role to support the future development of effective and efficient out of hour’s services.
The duties of this post require the successful candidate to complete a Standard Police Act Disclosure Scotland Check.
For an informal discussion please contact Gail Woodcock, Head of Integration on gail.woodcock@falkirk.gov.uk
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail, therefore please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders) and also your Jobtrain account for updates.
NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office on 0330 041 4694 if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.