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A fantastic and exciting opportunity is available within the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership to provide both senior operational management and strategic leadership for Children’s Services as a senior manager.
Fife Health and Social Care Partnership is one of the larger Health and Social Care Partnerships in Scotland, serving the stunning and diverse Kingdom on Fife on Scotland’s East coast. We provide health and social care to a population of more than 370,000 people and lead a workforce of around 6,000 staff. We support a Team Fife approach ensuring an integrated and collaborative approach to service design and delivery with NHS Fife, Fife Council, the independent and voluntary sectors.
We are committed to the delivery of the outcomes of Integration for the people of Fife and striving for excellence in both quality and person-centred care through our strategic plan. By choosing to join the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership, you are choosing to make a real difference.
We are looking to appoint a driven and inspiring individual who, as a team player will be committed to quality, innovation, transformation and partnership working.
You will role model adaptive leadership approaches to ensure a clear, inclusive and engaged approach across all of Children’s services to strengthen the involvement of service users, carers, local communities and key stakeholders. You will enable and participate in locality based conversations to ensure planning to design and deliver services with and for children and families focused on outcomes and in pursuit of achieving the National Health and wellbeing Outcomes as indicators for Integration.
You will evidence the ability to strengthen partnership working arrangements with multi-agency colleagues and provide collaborative leadership and direction to the development of integrated children’s services across organisational and partnership boundaries to facilitate the changes required in line with national strategies such as Getting it Right for Every Child, The Promise and the Children and Young People Act.
You will ensure the highest standards of strategic operational leadership and management. You will display a highly developed collaborative and compassionate leadership style, being values based in your approach to lead safe and effective care for the children and families of Fife with the ability to influence and drive innovation and transformational change. In addition you will evidence a systems leader approach to be able to deliver as a key member of the Health and Social Care partnerships Extended Leadership team working collectively to achieve the ambitions of the Partnerships strategic plans.
If you believe you have the skills, values, knowledge and experience to provide compassionate, collaborative and dynamic leadership to Children’s services, then we would welcome your application.
This post is available as a fixed term or secondment for 2 years initially. Support for secondment must be discussed with your own line manager to support application
Any informal enquiries are welcome and can be arranged by contacting Lisa Cooper, Head of Primary and Preventative Care Services on lisa.cooper@nhs.scot.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity – Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub • Blink (joinblink.com) If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.
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.