Head of System Transfer of Care

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Job description

Head of System Transfer of Care

£70,248, grade 16, 37 hours, permanent

Location: Flemming Court, Whistler Drive, Castleford WF10 5HW. This position will also be required to undertake home working.

Are you a leader able to work at a senior level with experience in supporting effective hospital flow, from admission through to safe transfer of care to another care setting or home? If you're looking for an exciting new challenge, working in partnership across Adult Social Care and Health, then you may be the person we're looking for!

We are looking to recruit to the Head of System Transfer of Care role working across the Wakefield Health and Care system, linking in with Kirklees as part of the Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust footprint. This permanent opportunity is a senior position which will have oversight of all pathways, data, and resources to ensure effective hospital flow and safe transfer of care from hospital across the Wakefield system.

The post requires you to be responsible for leading and providing expertise in the development and delivery of work streams which support system flow. The success of collaboration between partners often relies on the maturity of pre-existing relationships within a system. These relationships are strong in Wakefield, with the Integrated Care Partnership creating a supportive environment within which partner organisations can share responsibility for the way the Health and Social Care system performs.

You will work in partnership with all health and care partners in primary, community, acute, social care, and independent sector care settings, as well as with partners across the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust footprint. With senior strategic oversight of the Integrated Transfer of Care Team, you will work to the Local Authority Executive Discharge Lead and the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust. A key feature of this role will be to provide shared leadership and expertise to manage system pressures.

The role requires you to be confident in holding system leaders to account in order to achieve our aims, including trouble shooting, informing, and updating the Integrated Discharge Executive Group on progress, and developing and implementing appropriate and effective escalations. You will also act as the winter planning/system pressures co-ordination lead for the Wakefield locality working with other equivalent roles and leads in Kirklees.

With a salary of £70,248, including 33 days holiday, plus statutory bank holidays, there are other benefits which make up our overall employee package, such as:

• Hybrid working
• A career average pension scheme
• Flexible working arrangements
• Employee Benefits schemes and discounts
• Access to OHU
• A strong commitment to training and development.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact Nichola Esmond ( )

This opportunity is open for NHS or Local Authority staff secondments.

Wakefield Council is wholly committed to ensuring children and vulnerable adults are fully supported and safe. We are dedicated to the safeguarding of all children and vulnerable adults whilst promoting their welfare. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this responsibility.

The successful applicant will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Application Form and to provide any criminal conviction information. Wakefield Council is wholly committed to ensuring children and vulnerable adults are fully supported and safe.

Closing date: 17 December 2021.