The provision of local personalised support is at the heart of our service and we are working with district and boroughs, health providers, care providers and the independent and voluntary sector to improve opportunity and outcomes for individuals across the North West of Surrey.

We believe that individuals should be at the heart of everything we do leading their own supported self assessment, empowering and supporting individuals to make their own choices about where and how they live their lives and the way they want their support to be provided.

St Peters Hospital, Social Care Hospital Team, is a busy acute hospital team that currently has a vacancy for a Senior Practitioner Operational Lead. The team works closely with the Hospital Trust to ensure patients are discharged appropriately and in a timely way working closely with the individual and their families hospital clinicians, community health and social care teams and providers. The post holder will be part of the management team and will work closely with the Hospital Trust and Social Care Practitioners. It is an exciting time within the hospital with innovative changes being implemented focussing on Whole System Changes with and Community facing teams. This will include the development of greater access for patients promoting an 8:00am till 8:00pm, seven days a week offer to patients from the Social Care Team.

You will need to have had significant post qualifying experience, with some degree of management experience and ideally have worked within both Health and Social Care environments demonstrating good understanding of both the Health and Social Care agendas. The post holder will need to be able to work under their own initiative. They will be an excellent communicator and demonstrate skills and ability to manage and support the day to day running of a busy, dynamic team prioritising daily changes and expectations, be confident, make decisions that respond flexibly and quickly to changing circumstances and the demands of an acute hospital.

You will be strong team player, committed to promoting change and supporting staff and should be able to demonstrate a strong evidence base of supervising staff.You will also have significant knowledge and understanding of older people including Dementia.

For an informal discussion about this role please contact Melanie Nunn, St Peters Hospital Social Care Team Manager, 01932 722526 or Michelle Head, Acting Senior Manager 01932 794419.

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.

Closing Date: 16 February 2012