Healthcare Transition and Young Person Service Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse, midwife or allied health professional with current NMC or HCPC registration, as applicable to the candidate's profession.
• Master's degree in a relevant subject, or evidence of specialist knowledge and senior professional experience equivalent to Master's level; evidence of continuing professional development relevant to healthcare transition, young people, strategic leadership, quality improvement and professional practice.

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in leadership, service improvement, education, research or a relevant clinical specialty; recognised coaching, clinical supervision, quality-improvement or project/programme management qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post-registration experience, including significant experience in a senior clinical, professional, operational or strategic leadership role; evidence of leading strategy, policy, service development or complex improvement across more than one clinical service or directorate; experience translating national requirements and evidence into organisational plans, standards, pathways and measurable delivery arrangements.
• Experience providing professional advice, constructive challenge, recommendations and assurance to senior clinical or corporate leaders, and influencing change where priorities, professional perspectives or organisational interests differ.
• Demonstrable experience reviewing, designing, implementing and evaluating complex clinical pathways or service models; leading multidisciplinary and cross-organisational improvement; identifying variation, gaps, duplication, delay and risk; using structured quality-improvement methods; and involving patients, young people, families or carers in service design and evaluation.
• Substantial experience of clinical governance, quality assurance, audit, evaluation, risk management, incident learning or complaints review; developing governance arrangements, performance measures, reporting routes and accountability; preparing evidence-based reports and escalating material risks.

Desirable

• Experience at organisational, system, regional or national level; deputising for a senior nursing or professional leader; direct experience of paediatric-to-adult transition pathways; cross-boundary work with children's services, local authorities, education or voluntary-sector partners; supporting external assurance, inspection, regulatory review, thematic review or complex investigation.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of healthcare transition and developmentally appropriate care for young people and young adults, underpinned by theory and relevant experience; advanced knowledge of national policy, professional guidance and evidence relating to transition from children's to adult services.
• Detailed knowledge of consent, mental capacity, safeguarding, information sharing, equality and human rights; understanding of clinical governance, quality assurance, patient safety, risk management, co-production and reducing health inequalities; knowledge of NHS structures, integrated care and interfaces across acute, children's, community, primary, mental health, social care and education services.
• Expert professional judgement in complex clinical, legal, ethical, safeguarding, pathway or multi-agency situations; ability to analyse conflicting or incomplete information, formulate options, balance quality, safety, experience, equality, workforce, financial and implementation considerations, and provide evidence-based recommendations or escalation.
• Experience developing and managing annual and medium-term programmes with multiple services, organisations and stakeholders; ability to translate strategy into delivery plans, milestones, accountable leads, measures and reporting arrangements; ability to manage competing priorities and adapt plans to changing policy, resources and risk.
• Highly developed written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation and influencing skills; ability to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information, secure agreement to change, build senior relationships across boundaries and chair complex meetings with clear decisions and accountability.
• Experience of direct line management, workforce capability development, education, competency or training plans; ability to provide professional leadership beyond direct line management and support development through supervision, coaching, education or a community of practice.
• Ability to critically appraise research, policy, guidance and innovation; lead audit, evaluation or improvement across services; use evidence to recommend and implement change; disseminate learning; understand Standing Financial Instructions and responsible resource use; contribute to business cases and resource proposals; use standard digital applications; specify information requirements; and apply confidentiality, data protection and information-governance requirements.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Visible, compassionate and inclusive leader who acts with integrity and professional credibility; demonstrates professional courage, curiosity, accountability and respectful challenge; works autonomously and accepts accountability for the quality and timeliness of advice and programme delivery.
• Resilient and effective when dealing with complexity, uncertainty, competing priorities and distressing or sensitive information; committed to person-centred care, co-production, equality, diversity, inclusion, human rights and reducing inequalities; recognises personal limits, seeks advice and maintains professional boundaries.

Desirable

• Experience leading cultural or organisational change; formal project or programme management; managing interdependent improvement projects; presenting regionally or nationally; working with representative or advocacy groups; establishing professional networks; formal teaching, coaching or supervision preparation; research publication or academic partnership; budget management; productivity improvement; patient-facing digital information or business-intelligence tools.

Other requirements

Essential

• Able to work flexibly across Trust and partner sites, fulfil the travel requirements of the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northern General Hospital

Herries Road

Sheffield

S5 7AU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)