# Head of Acute Services H&F

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £88250.00 to £100355.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional and highly experienced candidate to operationally manage our acute mental health services at Claybrook Centre in H&F.

This is a full-time position with operational responsibility for the 3 acute mental health inpatient wards, one male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), the Health Based Place of Safety and the H&F Crisis Assessment Home Treatment Team located on site.

The successful candidate will have a positive and enthusiastic attitude with a focus on team working and collaboration. You will have extensive clinical expertise and a proven track record of effective people management. You will also need to demonstrate a sound understanding of crisis, community and acute services and the wider landscape across systems.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide strong operational management and leadership to the Matrons, and inpatient ward managers and multi-disciplinary teams in the inpatient unit.

- Support & deputise for the Associate Director.

- Support the AD to deliver financial balance within the portfolio and the wider Service Line.

- Support the Associate Director in leading locally the service developments within the Local Services Transformation plan which includes the crisis alternatives.

- Be accountable for overall standards of nursing practice which aims to improve the experience and outcomes for service users.

- Ensure that clinical governance mechanisms are in place, driven at a local level, ensuring lessons are learnt and experience informs 'best practice'.

**Benefits**

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 8c salary: £88,250 to £100,355 a year pro rata inclusive of 20% HCAS

**Person Specification**

- Qualifications: Professional Qualification, Evidence of up-to-date personal development, NMC Registration

- Experience: Substantial experience managing mental health nursing and Mental health care at 8b or above, Substantial experience in adult/older people or CAMHS services, Experience of the development of good relationships across a range of multi-disciplinary key stakeholders

- Knowledge: Knowledge of the mental health system, policy at national strategic level, Knowledge of key legislation that relates to the delivery of mental health services.

- Skills: Communication skills both verbal as well as other skills, Ability to communicate & negotiate in complex & crisis situations, Be able to analyse information from different sources and distill effectively into a concise narrative for verbal and written uses

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## Skills

### Required
- Communication skills
- Leadership
- Management
- Mental health nursing
- Clinical governance

### Nice to have
- QI Advisor
- Programme management qualification
- Masters or equivalent

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