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At Royal Greenwich, we are proud to be a borough synonymous with first class modern services alongside our Maritime history, Greenwich Mean Time and Royal Status. A world heritage site, our communities are vibrant and diverse, and our elected members are ambitious to realise the potential of the borough whilst responding to our financial challenges.

Growth, progress and innovation are critical, but we remain completely focused on ensuring that we meet the needs of our communities by working closely with residents, partners and businesses. Securing the very best outcomes for our children and young people and providing high quality housing remain our top priorities.

The Role

Are you a dynamic leader passionate about delivering swift impactful care?  Do you want to make a real difference and drive the future of integrated responsive health and social care?

We are seeking an experienced Operational Manager to lead our innovative service which includes our urgent community response (UCR), falls pick up services, seven day social care and virtual ward.

JET is a seven-day service that operates from 08:00 to 20:30, including bank holidays. The staff team consists of qualified health and social care professionals and a range of support staff in order to support the needs of our Greenwich residents.

This is an integrated role working across both health and social care that is jointly funded by the Royal Borough of Greenwich and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and is accountable to both organisations.

The Royal Borough of Greenwich and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust are dedicated to providing high-quality, responsive, and compassionate care to our community.

The Joint Emergency Team provides a crucial role in delivering timely interventions that prevent hospital admission and support individuals to stay in their own homes providing a home first response.  Alongside this we facilitate early discharges from hospital and function as a gateway to the integrated community services within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

We are part of the South East London Urgent Community Response, delivering a rapid response within 2 hours to proactively prevent hospital admission and meet the needs of patients in the community. We are also currently piloting a service working in partnership with the London Ambulance Service community response car.

We also provide support, treatment, and monitoring on our virtual ward for up to fourteen days and the team are using digital health care monitoring.

The team provides a multi-professional assessment of health and social care needs to support the immediate crisis, identifying specialist assessment and rehabilitation requirements and providing necessary equipment to maintain patients / clients in their own homes. The post holder will also be responsible for an on call rota that is delivering and managing the Royal Greenwich Adult social Care Emergency Duty Team which operates from 17.00 to 09.00 seven days a week.

Benefits of working for us

As the home of the Prime Meridian, Greenwich Mean Time, the Unesco World Heritage Site, becoming Council of the Year 2013, the first new Royal Borough for more than 80 years along with having brand-new offices based in the heart of Woolwich, Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work. 

Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work. Benefiting from excellent transport links ranging from Crossrail to the Elizabeth line to the Uber boat, we’re one of the easiest boroughs to get to and navigate your way around.

Employee benefits include:

• A range of flexible working arrangements            
• Excellent pension scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Learning and development opportunities to maximise your potential, including excellent apprenticeship opportunities at all levels
• Vibrant staff support networks
• GreenwichCard which entitles you to discounts at local businesses
• Payroll giving scheme
• Generous leave entitlement, starting at 29 days per year (plus bank holidays)
• Employee Assistance Scheme including external counselling service

For more information about the role, please read the attached job documents.  When completing your application form, please detail how you meet the essential requirements in the Person Specification.

As part of the selection process, you will need to explain how you meet the key requirements for this role listed in the advert. When explaining how you meet each of the requirements, please give examples that clearly demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience. When writing your examples give a brief description of the situation or task but focus on the actions you took and the result of your actions.

This role requires a Enhanced DBS Check

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