Senior Operational Lead - St Peters Hospital

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our St Peters Hospital social care team in Chertsey, Surrey. We’ve had a major review of how we work with our health partners, patients and their families and we are currently expanding our service to run from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday. We are, therefore, particularly interested in applicants who would be able to work weekday evenings and/or 9am to 5pm Saturday to Sunday. Please indicate on your application form your available working times.

Promoting choice and control is at the heart of everything we do. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high level of understanding and commitment to the personalisation agenda and be able to demonstrate an applied knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation including the Mental Capacity Act and the NHS Continuing Healthcare National Framework. They will be an excellent communicator and demonstrate the skills and ability to manage and support the day to day running of a busy, dynamic team effectively prioritising daily challenges and expectations. They will be confident in making sound decisions that respond flexibly and quickly to changing needs that arise in a high pressure acute hospital environment. You will be able to develop effective partnership relationships with individuals, carers and families and positive relationships with professional health staff both within and outside the hospital.

You will based in St Peters Hospital social care team, supporting the manager to deliver high quality personalised adult social care and supporting timely, safe and effective hospital discharges. You must have significant post qualification experience, including some management experience in a social care setting, and be able to demonstrate good understanding of both the health and social care agendas. You will be a strong team player and committed to promoting and implementing the changes in working practice and hours needed to provide a responsive hospital based service. A key accountability of the role is developing staff practice and therefore applicants must be able demonstrate evidence of providing effective professional supervision to less experienced colleagues.

You must also be able to demonstrate an applied and effective knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults’ procedures and be able to evidence this. You will have an understanding and commitment to supporting carers and a demonstrable commitment to providing management that supports and promotes Surrey County Council’s equality and diversity policy.

Applicants must hold a professional social work, occupational therapy, nursing or other relevant allied health qualification, have completed any post qualification practice or training requirements and have current professional registration with their relevant registration authority.

You will need to have competent IT skills and be able and willing to learn to use a variety of software systems. All short-listed applicants will be required to complete a basic IT skills test as part of the interview process.

Applicants will need to have the willingness and ability to travel across Surrey in accordance with the demands of the work and the job profile.

For further information about the role please contact Melanie Nunn, Team Manager, on 01932 722526.

Surrey County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer of first choice, reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all under represented groups.