Head of Clinical Services
Are you driven by a passion to make a difference to young people's lives? We're looking for an experienced senior clinician to join our team as Clinical Services Lead at Barnardo's.
We want to be the leading provider of integrated children's health and social care services, to increase the reach of health and wellbeing services and reduce health inequalities in the community.
We are looking for an inspirational senior clinician to provide visible professional and strategic leadership to the clinical workforce, both registered and non-registered, across Barnardo's.
Reporting to the Director of Health, you'll lead a small expert team of specialist health professionals to support the development, commissioning, and delivery of several programmes of work to implement the Health Strategy. With a focus on early years and integrated child & family health alongside CYP mental health support services, the range and scope of the role will include supporting face to face and digital delivery methods in place and under development.
This is a specific leadership role focused on supporting and advising on clinical service delivery, reviewing national strategies relating to clinical standards, making recommendations to the Director of Health, and ensuring delivery against these strategies.
You'll collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including service managers, GPs, commissioners (at ICB and Place level) and professional bodies and play a key role in clinical workforce planning and developing innovative solutions to service change and redesign.
In addition, you will be required to:
- Provide expertise and support to create, develop, deliver, and evaluate a range of health projects focused primarily on prevention and integrated child and family health and mental health.
- Provide strategic and clinical leadership within the organisation with responsibility for developing and implementing clinically focused strategies, policies, and procedures across child and family health, and mental health services.
- Deputise when required in the Director of Health's absence and delegate appropriately to clinical and administration staff.
- Ensure evidence based clinical practice is embedded into the organisation.
- Work closely with service managers to ensure that all staff have and develop the appropriate clinical competencies for their role and that organisational support is in place to enable staff to continuously improve quality.
- Develop a standardised approach to the provision of clinical supervision to ensure registered professionals meet clinical standards.
- Oversee the planning, delivery and evaluation of clinical training provided for delivery of child and family health, and mental health services in conjunction with the Barnardo's University
- Provide direct line management and clinical management responsibility for the Strategic Leads for Psychology and Psychotherapy, and Health Visiting
- Develop (as required) and effectively implement core clinical policies and procedures such as Clinical Supervision and ensure compliance in collaboration with the Strategic Lead for Clinical Governance
- Provide clinical input into major contract bid opportunities for Healthy Child 0-19 and Mental Health contracts.
You'll have:
Education/Knowledge
- Professional NMC, HCPC or other AHP registration (current), with a minimum of 5 years' experience
- Leadership or management qualification or equivalent recent experience in a leadership position
- Educated to Master's level (desirable)
Skills/Experience
- Highly developed specialised knowledge and skills within clinical leadership, and management, minimum 5 years' experience
- Minimum 5 years' clinical experience of delivering early years and integrated child and family health alongside children and young people (CYP) mental health support services.
- Understanding of the broader NHS landscape and current reforms e.g., Long Term Plan and ICB developments
- Understanding of commissioning of children's services
At Barnardo's we all play our part. We are a large, diverse family with a variety of skills working together to help the most vulnerable children across the UK Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is central to achieving our vision of a world in which no child is turned away.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Barnardo's offers a hybrid working model covered under our `Work from Anywhere' Framework, therefore vacancies advertised with this as an opportunity are open for applicants to either work from home or any location within the UK, including Barnardo's Hub/Office that is a reasonable distance from your home address.
Flexibility
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
- T&C's apply based on contract
