Total 21 Manager level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Backford, Chester, CH2 4DG

An amazing job opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Nurse Deputy Home Manager to work in an exceptional nursing home based in the Norwich, Norfolk area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading healthcare providers

This nursing home is registered for older people, employing a team of staff skilled in person-centred nursing and dementia care

**To be considered for this position you must be qualified as a Registered Nurse with a current active NMC Pin**

As the Deputy Manager your key responsibilities include:
• Supporting and deputising for the Home Manager, you will provide inspiring leadership to nursing and care colleagues and oversee the delivery of high quality clinical and pastoral care
• You will be the homes nurse expert and your role will be a combination of utilising your nursing skills as well as your managerial and leadership skills
• You will focus on residents with complex needs, so it’s vital that you can conform with the latest guidelines, take far-reaching decisions and maintain the highest levels of clinical governance, whilst regularly auditing practices and procedures
• Care plan development and assessments
• Look after all our residents alongside the team and offer personalised centred care

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
• Previous Deputy Home Manager experience
• The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards
• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing teams
• Good clinical skills
• Promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home

The successful Deputy Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £43,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week working through Days. In return for our hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Career development opportunities from a fast-growing group
• Superb setting and working environment
• Costs for an enhanced DBS
• Pension scheme

Reference ID: 6479
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV to contact@jupiterrecruitment.co.uk

See Job Description for further details. Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.

What skills and experience we're looking for

At North West Academies Trust, we believe that our school environments should be world-class, inspiring, and safe, allowing children and staff alike to thrive in and out of the classrooms.

We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified, ambitious and committed Estates and Health & Safety Manager who will join the Trust at a very exciting stage. We have already completed extensive building project work at Rudheath Senior Academy, Grosvenor Park CofE Academy and Ellesmere Primary School amongst others.

The job now is to build on those successes, secure new opportunities, and ensure the estate is maintained well across all schools within the Trust.

The purpose of this role is to lead the implementation of an estates strategy and to manage all aspects of the Trust’s properties upkeep, care, maintenance, security, health and safety and facilities management in line with statutory and regulatory requirements. Additionally, the postholder will work to maintain refurbishments and other building projects in terms of development and procurement and to act as the Trust representative with suppliers to the estate, professional advisors (buildings) and contractors.

Critical to this role will be for the Estates and Health & Safety Manager to coordinate and lead the Trust and schools in their buildings, securing a thorough understanding of the new build systems and how to secure best management practice of the estate.

You will be an expert in health and safety legislation and practice, and have extensive knowledge of good estate management, with excellent proficiency in written and verbal communication and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders, including external authorities/bodies, headteachers, business managers and caretakers alike.

What the school offers its staff

Flexible working arrangements

Enrolment to the Medicash Proactive Health Plan to help with costs of everyday healthcare.

Access to local government pension scheme with employer contributions of 21.8%.

Hybrid working arrangements around business needs.

Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.

Accredited counsellor to offer wellbeing support for all staff.

Positive recognition culture.

Bespoke professional development opportunities.

Open door policy for communication across the Trust.

Opportunity to contribute to the growth and development of NWAT.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

An amazing job opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Nurse Deputy Home Manager to work in an exceptional nursing home based in the Norwich, Norfolk area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading healthcare providers

This nursing home is registered for older people, employing a team of staff skilled in person-centred nursing and dementia care

**To be considered for this position you must be qualified as a Registered Nurse with a current active NMC Pin**

As the Deputy Manager your key responsibilities include:
• Supporting and deputising for the Home Manager, you will provide inspiring leadership to nursing and care colleagues and oversee the delivery of high quality clinical and pastoral care
• You will be the homes nurse expert and your role will be a combination of utilising your nursing skills as well as your managerial and leadership skills
• You will focus on residents with complex needs, so it’s vital that you can conform with the latest guidelines, take far-reaching decisions and maintain the highest levels of clinical governance, whilst regularly auditing practices and procedures
• Care plan development and assessments
• Look after all our residents alongside the team and offer personalised centred care

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
• Previous Deputy Home Manager experience
• The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards
• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing teams
• Good clinical skills
• Promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home

The successful Deputy Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £43,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week working through Days. In return for our hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Career development opportunities from a fast-growing group
• Superb setting and working environment
• Costs for an enhanced DBS
• Pension scheme

Reference ID: 6479
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV to contact@jupiterrecruitment.co.uk

See Job Description for further details. Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.

Job description
Adada Healthcare Services specialises in the provision of home care services, as well as Supported Living for Adults. We provide great person-centred services to enable our customers to live independently in their own homes.

To lead this, we are looking for a dynamic and experienced Registered Manager, to oversee and guide the day to day operations of our home care service. You will be working in a team that is supportive of each other and aims to improve and develop our services continuously, with a clear focus on growing the branch.

The perfect candidate for this role will be able to design processes to increase efficiency, responsiveness as well as staff and service user’s safety.

Key responsibilities

Policy development and implementation in line with CQC.
Ensuring the delivery of a high quality, responsive and person-centred services that meet the needs of our service users.
Structuring and planning the delivery of care to enable adequate support for our clients and carers.
Managing the daily operations of the care service, line-management of Care Coordinators
Managing and leading a team of carers to ensure adequate delivery of care to vulnerable Adults in their own homes. Making sure that the team dynamic is promoting the delivery of high-quality care
Ensuring that the service is meeting CQC requirements and remains compliant.
Daily management of stakeholders, such as local authorities, service users and their families, etc.
Manage and support recruitment and retention of staff and leading the team to deliver an exceptional service.
Working closely with out recruitment team for forecasting and induction planning, with a focus on inducting internationally recruited care team members
Manage Business development and strategies to ensure continuity and growth
Enable and support staff members to engage service users and to build strategic, long term and sustainable relationships
Essential Criteria for this role:

Strong understanding and experience in the care industry.
As a minimum - RQF/ NVQ Level 5 in Health & Social Care qualification or a Registered Manager Award
Experience managing a community based care service.
Experience of staff management and deployment into a social care environment.
A strong understanding of a person-centred approach to supporting people.
Ability to work weekends and long hours when required.
Strong Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
Organized, strong leadership and communication skills
Strong decision making skills
Vision, tenacity, drive, intuition and strategic thinking.
Full UK Driving Licence with access to a vehicle
Enhanced DBS Certificate
We offer an excellent benefits package:

Excellent salary of 45,000.00 - £50,000.00 + Bonuses
Fully paid induction training programme and any on-going training as required
Support to study care qualifications and enhance personal development
If you feel that this is the job for you then we'd love to hear from you!

The ideal candidate for this position will succeed in this role if they have both knowledge and technical depth about the company and the industry. This is essential as they will be a central person in the decision making process, working with multiple individuals across different teams when necessary.

An amazing job opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Nurse Deputy Home Manager to work in an exceptional nursing home based in the Norwich, Norfolk area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading healthcare providers

This nursing home is registered for older people, employing a team of staff skilled in person-centred nursing and dementia care

**To be considered for this position you must be qualified as a Registered Nurse with a current active NMC Pin**

As the Deputy Manager your key responsibilities include:
• Supporting and deputising for the Home Manager, you will provide inspiring leadership to nursing and care colleagues and oversee the delivery of high quality clinical and pastoral care
• You will be the homes nurse expert and your role will be a combination of utilising your nursing skills as well as your managerial and leadership skills
• You will focus on residents with complex needs, so it’s vital that you can conform with the latest guidelines, take far-reaching decisions and maintain the highest levels of clinical governance, whilst regularly auditing practices and procedures
• Care plan development and assessments
• Look after all our residents alongside the team and offer personalised centred care

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
• Previous Deputy Home Manager experience
• The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards
• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing teams
• Good clinical skills
• Promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home

The successful Deputy Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £43,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week working through Days. In return for our hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Career development opportunities from a fast-growing group
• Superb setting and working environment
• Costs for an enhanced DBS
• Pension scheme

Reference ID: 6479
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV to contact@jupiterrecruitment.co.uk

Applications Support Manager – Band 8a

The Clinical Systems Team is recruiting to this position to manage a team of applications specialist support staff responsible for the support, configuration and maintenance of Cerner Millennium, Barts Health’s electronic health record system.



The successful candidate will have strong leadership experience and qualities with expert level Millennium knowledge.They must beable to demonstrate good technical understanding of clinical systems. Planning and prioritisation of the teams workload must be managed to ensure key performance indicators are achieved.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.



The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which ourWeCarevalues and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by ourWeCarevalues and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.


This advert closes on Thursday 29 Aug 2024

An amazing job opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Nurse Deputy Home Manager to work in an exceptional nursing home based in the Norwich, Norfolk area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading healthcare providers

This nursing home is registered for older people, employing a team of staff skilled in person-centred nursing and dementia care

**To be considered for this position you must be qualified as a Registered Nurse with a current active NMC Pin**

As the Deputy Manager your key responsibilities include:
• Supporting and deputising for the Home Manager, you will provide inspiring leadership to nursing and care colleagues and oversee the delivery of high quality clinical and pastoral care
• You will be the homes nurse expert and your role will be a combination of utilising your nursing skills as well as your managerial and leadership skills
• You will focus on residents with complex needs, so it’s vital that you can conform with the latest guidelines, take far-reaching decisions and maintain the highest levels of clinical governance, whilst regularly auditing practices and procedures
• Care plan development and assessments
• Look after all our residents alongside the team and offer personalised centred care

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
• Previous Deputy Home Manager experience
• The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards
• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing teams
• Good clinical skills
• Promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home

The successful Deputy Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £43,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week working through Days. In return for our hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Career development opportunities from a fast-growing group
• Superb setting and working environment
• Costs for an enhanced DBS
• Pension scheme

Reference ID: 6479
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV to contact@jupiterrecruitment.co.uk

See Job Description for further details. Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.

An amazing job opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Nurse Deputy Home Manager to work in an exceptional nursing home based in the Norwich, Norfolk area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading healthcare providers

This nursing home is registered for older people, employing a team of staff skilled in person-centred nursing and dementia care

**To be considered for this position you must be qualified as a Registered Nurse with a current active NMC Pin**

As the Deputy Manager your key responsibilities include:
• Supporting and deputising for the Home Manager, you will provide inspiring leadership to nursing and care colleagues and oversee the delivery of high quality clinical and pastoral care
• You will be the homes nurse expert and your role will be a combination of utilising your nursing skills as well as your managerial and leadership skills
• You will focus on residents with complex needs, so it’s vital that you can conform with the latest guidelines, take far-reaching decisions and maintain the highest levels of clinical governance, whilst regularly auditing practices and procedures
• Care plan development and assessments
• Look after all our residents alongside the team and offer personalised centred care

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
• Previous Deputy Home Manager experience
• The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards
• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing teams
• Good clinical skills
• Promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home

The successful Deputy Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £43,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week working through Days. In return for our hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Career development opportunities from a fast-growing group
• Superb setting and working environment
• Costs for an enhanced DBS
• Pension scheme

Reference ID: 6479
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV to contact@jupiterrecruitment.co.uk

An amazing job opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Nurse Deputy Home Manager to work in an exceptional nursing home based in the Norwich, Norfolk area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading healthcare providers

This nursing home is registered for older people, employing a team of staff skilled in person-centred nursing and dementia care

**To be considered for this position you must be qualified as a Registered Nurse with a current active NMC Pin**

As the Deputy Manager your key responsibilities include:
• Supporting and deputising for the Home Manager, you will provide inspiring leadership to nursing and care colleagues and oversee the delivery of high quality clinical and pastoral care
• You will be the homes nurse expert and your role will be a combination of utilising your nursing skills as well as your managerial and leadership skills
• You will focus on residents with complex needs, so it’s vital that you can conform with the latest guidelines, take far-reaching decisions and maintain the highest levels of clinical governance, whilst regularly auditing practices and procedures
• Care plan development and assessments
• Look after all our residents alongside the team and offer personalised centred care

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
• Previous Deputy Home Manager experience
• The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards
• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing teams
• Good clinical skills
• Promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home

The successful Deputy Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £43,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week working through Days. In return for our hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Career development opportunities from a fast-growing group
• Superb setting and working environment
• Costs for an enhanced DBS
• Pension scheme

Reference ID: 6479
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV to contact@jupiterrecruitment.co.uk

The post holder will be responsible for supporting and overseeing the operational delivery of the North Durham EIP service at team level and supporting the team in addressing issues impacting on service delivery. Sound leadership and excellent communication skills will be required to drive the delivery of an effective, efficient, high-quality service in accordance with Trust values, clinical standards, service priorities and performance requirements. The post holder will be required to work closely with clinical, operational and professional leads and must ensure effective links with other community teams and partners. The ability to work autonomously is essential with overall support and strategic direction from the Service Manager. Responsible for ensuring that the safety, privacy and dignity of all patients is maintained in the delivery of patient centred care, recognising and respecting differences including spiritual and cultural beliefs Ensures that all staff take steps to obtain patient consent to care and treatment in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act, ensuring that patients who lack mental capacity remain at the centre of decision-making and are fully safeguarded. Ensures that all staff act, wherever applicable, in accordance with the Mental Health Act and associated policies and procedures. Responsible for ensuring that all staff recognise the potential for or signs of patient harm, abuse and neglect, including poor clinical practice, report all such occurrences and take all reasonable steps to protect the patient. Responsible for ensuring that all staff identify, and report concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk. Accountable for ensuring the highest professional standards and attitudes towards the care of patients are maintained and delivered at all times in accordance with evidence-based practice by all members of the team. Provides clinical advice and direction on complex issues, as appropriate, to clinical staff in the team and staff from other disciplines and external organisations. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Location: Chester Le Street
Hours: 24 hours a week, Position to include regular Saturdays (alternate at most) Flexibility is crucial to help cover holidays and sickness.
Salary: £16.15 Per Hour

Healthcare at Superdrug

With an extensive network of 200 pharmacies across the UK and over 60 health clinics, we're at the forefront of accessible and quality healthcare. If you're passionate about making a difference to the nation’s health, come be a part of our dedicated team and help shape the future of healthcare.

What’s in it for you?

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver that Superdrug feeling! In return we give you:

• Up to 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• A competitive salary plus bonus potential of up to 25% (based on performance)
• Instant access to Wagestream - a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Amazing discounts - Up to 30% discount at Superdrug for you and a nominated person plus discounted services including Online Doctor
• AvivaDigicareWorkplace+ you and your family will get access to an app that gives you free healthcare services like Digital GP, mental health consultations and an annual health check
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support

The Role

Our Pharmacy Team Leaders go beyond just great management skills. We’re after people who are confident to use initiative to stretch/build pharmacy performance and seeks to add value to the business. As a Superdrug Pharmacy Team Leader, you're part of the management team who are responsible for providing an efficient, knowledgeable, and exceptional service to our customers. You'll receive direct line management support from your Pharmacy Manager.

It’s a great experience that will prepare you for even bigger challenges our Pharmacy Team Leaders are extremely important to us. We’ll support you to develop both your professional and commercial skills.

About You

• Have achieved NVQ Level 3 in Dispensing or equivalent (level 2 considered)
• Previous experience in working in a dispensary
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Previous experience working in a supervisory role within a pharmacy (or retail sector i.e. previous store manager/assistant store manager)

Success in this role will enable you to take your next step with us, as we have a strong desire to promote from within and reward the highest achievers.

You can apply either through our website by clicking “Apply”, or by emailing your CV to charlotte.olney@uk.aswatson.com

Key Responsibilities To provide strategic clinical leadership to ensure the continual evolution, development, and provision of high-quality services in line with MYHTT vision of excellent patient experience and CHP Service vision of having functionally integrated psychology in every service area within the Trust where there is need. To provide strategic leadership and direction on psychological aspects of Trust business at clinical, service, place, and system level To represent the Trust at system level within WYAAT Psychology Services Collaborative and to engage with system strategic objectives. Clinical and Professional Leadership To ensure the effective professional management and leadership of psychology services across the organisation. To lead on the development of high-quality CHP services, that are responsive and accessible for patients, carers, and families, including advising Division, Chief Operating Officer and Executive team on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To identify key strategic service priorities and advise on the level of psychology provision across MYHTT. To provide professional leadership, clinical consultancy, personal support, and practice guidance to psychological practitioners working in CHP Service. To be professionally responsible and operationally accountable for all CHP staff employed by MYHTT with an emphasis on good leadership, engagement, and motivation of staff within psychology services. To offer consultation and strategic advice to MYHTT Divisional colleagues and Executive Team, offering specialist clinical psychology knowledge around the provision of psychological and psychologically informed health care to patients and staff within the acute trust and at place. To continue service development and improvement across MYHTT and work in conjunction with WYAAT Heads of Service to develop productive partnerships and integrated pathways aligned to WYAAT Psychology Collaborative Strategy. To provide CHP Service leadership, clinical expertise and facilitate research, evaluation and audit activity to support the work of the service and ensure that key performance indicators are being achieved in line with current best practice. As professional psychology lead at MYHTT, to offer trust wide consultancy where required to other senior professionals and patients and to maintain support to the Trust Complex Needs Strategic Steering Group. To provide leadership and consultancy to Wakefield Mental Health Alliance Strategic group to a) optimise safe and effective psychology delivery where required and b) develop integrated care pathways between physical and mental health services Governance, Quality and Management Work with the Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) to ensure delivery of effective high-quality services across the CHP services. To exercise overall responsibility for managing the resources available to the service both in terms of staff and materials employed in the assessment and the treatment of patients and overall running of the service. To be responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice and overall service delivery and across all areas of activity. To propose and implement policy, service development and continuous improvement changes within the CHP Service and across the Trust where required. To exercise professional responsibility for clinical and all other governance for CHP staff, ensuring systematic governance of psychological practice and that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of staff. To be responsible for ensuring that the policies and procedures of the Trust, profession and CHP Service are properly implemented by all staff within the service. People Management Ensure robust systems are in place to control the funded establishment and utilisation of the CHP workforce and that service plans are effectively underpinned by a robust workforce plan. In partnership with HR develop plans to secure the recruitment and retention of a CHP workforce of sufficient capacity to meet present and future workload demands. Analyse and update workforce requirements of departments, considering corporate strategy, the national landscape and relevant NHS plans and guidance to develop a strategy to meet future service needs. Ensure the CHP workforce have access to development opportunities linked to service need, regular appraisal and personal development planning opportunities and are encouraged to explore future career aspirations and ambitions. This includes the provision of mandatory training. Take a compassionate approach to people management, maximising opportunities for flexible working whilst ensuring appropriate implementation of policies re. performance, and sickness management and disciplinary. To be responsible for ensuring clear systems for professional appraisal and the development of appropriate professional development plans including the direct line-management of staff employed within CHP Service. Clinical Duties within job planned capacity To work as a senior clinician within CHP providing a highly specialist service in a clinical area. To hold a highly specialist caseload of patients with complex needs and by drawing upon a range of conceptual models and therapeutic frameworks, analysing, interpreting, and providing individually formulated psychological consultation, assessment and therapy (individual and group) to patients and their families and carers, where clinically appropriate. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of patients/families based upon interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as required. To formulate plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological needs based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice including the setting of time scales to prioritise needs appropriately with individuals and the multi-disciplinary team. To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required. The post holder is required to exercise clinical judgements about unique situations where there are several complicating features which appear intractable or about which there is no clear clinical consensus. To undertake highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors that have shaped the individual, family or group. To accept, triage, prioritise and allocate referrals to other clinicians under line management and supervision where appropriate. To utilise the highest level of interpersonal skills when intervening therapeutically with service users where there may be significant emotional and behavioural difficulties and hostile environments. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate to patients and other professionals in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, highly sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of patients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. Frequently communication requires sharing highly sensitive information with highly distressed patients or communicating about issues related to physical or terminal illness, or where there are significant barriers to acceptance. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for all clinical decisions for the treatment of and discharge of patients, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care for example the multidisciplinary team on a regular basis. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, managing highly complex situations where some expert opinions may differ, contributing directly to patients diagnosis and treatment. To ensure that all members of the relevant clinical teams have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research, and theory. To provide emotional and psychological support and interventions to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours enabling them to function effectively.