Are you a dynamic, forward-thinking and experienced Learning Disabilities professional or leader seeking a new challenge? Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) Learning Disability All age Service is recruiting a Locality Team Manager for our Fyle and Wyre locality.
This is a full-time, permanent post (37.5 hours per week) for both clinical professionals and managers. Operational leadership is central to NHS service delivery, and the learning disability service offers excellent prospects for those with relevant experience to further develop their leadership abilities and advance their career.
As part of the leadership team, you will manage an all-age, multi-disciplinary community learning disability and autism service. You will oversee the day-to-day operational management and leadership of staff to ensure delivery of a high-quality, multi-disciplinary health service for the local community.
Clinical responsibilities include promoting access to mainstream health care, reducing health inequalities and premature mortality, delivering specialist interventions, maintaining a caseload of complex clients as directed, and collaborating with other service leads.
We seek a confident, organised and experienced individual with a strong background in community teams, thorough understanding of the health needs of people with learning disabilities, and up-to-date knowledge of issues affecting Learning Disability Services.
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
