Service Manager - Foxgrove

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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a service manager within Foxgrove NSAIS based at Ayrshire Central Hospital. Foxgrove is the National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service (NSAIS) providing a 12 bedded specialist clinical services for all of the territorial Health Boards of NHS Scotland. It provides a secure clinical environment comparable to Regional adult medium secure in-patient mental health facilities.

It aims to develop and deliver a highly specialist, evidence based services, incorporating a multi-agency/disciplinary assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children and young people:

• aged 12 years to 18th birthday

• who pose a risk to others

• and are subject to mental health legislation,

Foxgrove will provide:

• Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care, treatment and assessment
• It will focus upon safety, security and rehabilitation
• Provide advice and clinical direction to partner health authorities prior to referral, throughout admission, in the planning of discharge and in the immediate discharge phase of the young person.
• Foxgrove will promote innovation in practice, excellence in care delivery and investment in staff to ensure a workforce which challenges and addresses health inequalities whilst promoting health improvement.
• Foxgrove will provide a service focused upon the needs of the young people in its care being mindful of neurodiversity and the individual needs of the young person’s aspirations and expectations.
• Foxgrove will ensure that a Trauma informed approach to care and treatments forms the central tenant of the service being offered to the young people of Scotland.
• Foxgrove will promote recovery and challenge stigma
• Foxgrove will aspire to empower young people and include those important to them, ensuring a rights based approach to care and meaningful participation.
• Foxgrove will communicate, liaise and coordinate with all statutory and non-statutory services involved in the care and treatment of the young people residing within the facility

Hours and Shift Pattern:

36 hours per week.

Requirement for on call participation for NHS Ayrshire and Arran Management Structures

What you will do:

An exciting role within a highly specialist team.

The Foxgrove Service Manager is responsible for providing effective and continuing day to day operational management to all staff working within the Foxgrove. The role leads and supports the interface between the nursing, allied health, security, psychological therapies, medical and other staff disciplines to support full integration of the multidisciplinary and multi agency teams. Responsibility is also given to ensure that the clinical contribution to service delivery is of the highest quality and is one that enhances the patient experience through the provision of safe, effective, efficient, timely, equitable and person centred care.

You should be aware that this is a new service which will evolve over time and therefore you should be equipped with refined leadership and management skills which will not only allow you to take pre-existing staff colleagues with you but recruit and retain new ones into the service.

Highly developed communication skills are therefore essential as is experience in leading and managing highly functioning multi-disciplinary services or teams.

For further information on the role please click the link below to view the job description.

Knowledge, training, qualifications and/or experience required to do the job:

Nursing qualification (RMN) is essential

For further information on the requirements for the role please click the link below to view the person specification.

Full UK Driving Licence:

Full UK driving licence is essential to this role.

If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Stuart McKenzie Senior Manager via Lisa Lusk –[email protected]

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

The Recruitment Team are unable to answer individual queries at application stage about this, please visit here for further information.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for bank contracts.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR ALL CANDIDATES

You should apply for this post by completing the application process on JobTrain.

• DO NOT upload a CV as this will not be used for shortlisting purposes.
• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. Late applications will not be accepted.
• For help to complete an application on JobTrain, please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
• To view our accessibility statement, please follow this link: https://www.eess.nhs.scot/jobtrain-accessibility-statement/
• Please note that our correspondence method is by email, therefore please ensure you enter your email address accurately.
• Please check your email regularly (including junk folders) and also your JobTrain account for updates.
• Please contact JobTrain Candidate Support Hub: https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home - for advice and support with any system issues.
• We recommend using the Internet Browser “Google Chrome” or “Microsoft Edge” when using JobTrain.
• Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments.
• Some of our vacancies are for internal candidates only. If you are a staff member, please ensure you update your JobTrain profile to reflect that you are employed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
• Please note, for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a service manager within Foxgrove NSAIS based at Ayrshire Central Hospital. Foxgrove is the National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service (NSAIS) providing a 12 bedded specialist clinical services for all of the territorial Health Boards of NHS Scotland. It provides a secure clinical environment comparable to Regional adult medium secure in-patient mental health facilities.

It aims to develop and deliver a highly specialist, evidence based services, incorporating a multi-agency/disciplinary assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children and young people:

• aged 12 years to 18th birthday

• who pose a risk to others

• and are subject to mental health legislation,

Foxgrove will provide:

• Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care, treatment and assessment
• It will focus upon safety, security and rehabilitation
• Provide advice and clinical direction to partner health authorities prior to referral, throughout admission, in the planning of discharge and in the immediate discharge phase of the young person.
• Foxgrove will promote innovation in practice, excellence in care delivery and investment in staff to ensure a workforce which challenges and addresses health inequalities whilst promoting health improvement.
• Foxgrove will provide a service focused upon the needs of the young people in its care being mindful of neurodiversity and the individual needs of the young person’s aspirations and expectations.
• Foxgrove will ensure that a Trauma informed approach to care and treatments forms the central tenant of the service being offered to the young people of Scotland.
• Foxgrove will promote recovery and challenge stigma
• Foxgrove will aspire to empower young people and include those important to them, ensuring a rights based approach to care and meaningful participation.
• Foxgrove will communicate, liaise and coordinate with all statutory and non-statutory services involved in the care and treatment of the young people residing within the facility

Hours and Shift Pattern:

36 hours per week.

Requirement for on call participation for NHS Ayrshire and Arran Management Structures

What you will do:

An exciting role within a highly specialist team.

The Foxgrove Service Manager is responsible for providing effective and continuing day to day operational management to all staff working within the Foxgrove. The role leads and supports the interface between the nursing, allied health, security, psychological therapies, medical and other staff disciplines to support full integration of the multidisciplinary and multi agency teams. Responsibility is also given to ensure that the clinical contribution to service delivery is of the highest quality and is one that enhances the patient experience through the provision of safe, effective, efficient, timely, equitable and person centred care.

You should be aware that this is a new service which will evolve over time and therefore you should be equipped with refined leadership and management skills which will not only allow you to take pre-existing staff colleagues with you but recruit and retain new ones into the service.

Highly developed communication skills are therefore essential as is experience in leading and managing highly functioning multi-disciplinary services or teams.

For further information on the role please click the link below to view the job description.

Knowledge, training, qualifications and/or experience required to do the job:

Nursing qualification (RMN) is essential

For further information on the requirements for the role please click the link below to view the person specification.

Full UK Driving Licence:

Full UK driving licence is essential to this role.

If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Stuart McKenzie Senior Manager via Lisa Lusk –[email protected]

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

The Recruitment Team are unable to answer individual queries at application stage about this, please visit here for further information.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for bank contracts.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR ALL CANDIDATES

You should apply for this post by completing the application process on JobTrain.

• DO NOT upload a CV as this will not be used for shortlisting purposes.
• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. Late applications will not be accepted.
• For help to complete an application on JobTrain, please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
• To view our accessibility statement, please follow this link: https://www.eess.nhs.scot/jobtrain-accessibility-statement/
• Please note that our correspondence method is by email, therefore please ensure you enter your email address accurately.
• Please check your email regularly (including junk folders) and also your JobTrain account for updates.
• Please contact JobTrain Candidate Support Hub: https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home - for advice and support with any system issues.
• We recommend using the Internet Browser “Google Chrome” or “Microsoft Edge” when using JobTrain.
• Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments.
• Some of our vacancies are for internal candidates only. If you are a staff member, please ensure you update your JobTrain profile to reflect that you are employed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
• Please note, for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.