Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) Team Manager Community Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager to join our forward thinking and successful Specialist Palliative Care team. We are looking for a positive, caring and compassionate individual who understands how to effectively support people to deliver excellent patient care.

The successful candidate will manage alongside a clinical lead, an SPC service based across various sites at CCICP within the footprint of South Cheshire and Vale Royal. The team delivers clinically effective, high quality, person centred care whilst ensuring that clinical, financial and workforce governance is achieved.

You will undertake the day to day management of the Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) SPC service, being jointly responsible for recruitment, induction, team meetings, quality improvement, and mandatory training.

You will be central to service development and delivery, working collaboratively with our stakeholders to ensure we're delivering and growing a great service to meet our population needs and delivering excellent patient care.

To operationally manage and support SPC service in delivering excellent patient care.

To be accountable for governance of your team and to be actively involved in policy and SOP development for the service.

To jointly manage staff training and personal development and to support staff with their career aspirations.

To manage and maintain waiting times and patient numbers within the service, ensuring timely interventions for all patients.

To work with acute and tertiary colleagues in managing throughput, care and treatment of patients.

To support the Community Operational Manager with various projects and meeting requirements.

To jointly manage recruitment and retention of staff.

To ensure a caring compassionate leadership culture for all.

To be an active and positive participant of the senior management team.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff.

An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester ‘places’ and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Fanthorpe-lowe Job title: Community Operational Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07551883302