Programme Director

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

The Mind & Body are inseparable and mental and physical health conditions are often connected. When mental and physical health problems are combined, people are less able to manage their conditions properly and their health conditions become worse.

Across King's Health Partners we are working to overcome these barriers by aspiring to treat the whole person because we know that addressing mental ill-health improves physical health outcomes and vice versa.

The post holder will provide programme leadership to KHP's Mind & Body programme delivering "whole person care" through mental and physical health services collaboration. The Programme Director will play a critical role in ensuring this approach is embedded within the KHP 2030 Strategy delivery across all areas of work.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• Internal team management
• Change management
• Core theme management
• Programme strategy lead
• Grant management
• System liaison

Working for our organisation

King's Health Partners

King's Health Partners was established by its founding partners in 2009; an Academic Health Sciences Centre where world-class research, education and clinical practice are brought together for the benefit of patients.

The collective weight of the partners has been applied to this challenge; comprising a leading university, King's College London, two large NHS acute Foundation Trusts, Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College Hospital, and South London and Maudsley which offers the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK.

KHP Mind & Body Programme

This role will play a vital role in leading the work of the Mind & Body Programme across south east London and delivering the following priorities:

• Evidence and evaluate: Build a robust evidence base for mind and body interventions, evaluating and demonstrating their impact on patient experience, outcomes, access and healthcare utilisation.
• Implement: Collaborate with partners across south east London to encourage the adoption of successfully piloted interventions.
• Scale: Encourage scaling up and spreading of successful interventions across south east London and beyond, so that mind and body care becomes standard practice.

The work will be underpinned by the following enablers: the Mind & Body Improvement Network, education, engaging patients, carers, and communities, and sustainable funding.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Strategy Development and Leadership/Management:
• Lead on Mind & Body strategy in collaboration with Clinical and Academic Directors for Mind & Body and KHP senior leadership team
• Working to the Director of Strategy for KHP, lead on the implementation of the integrating mental and physical health priorities in the KHP 2030 Strategy (to be launched in spring 2025)
• Lead and engage with Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs), Clinical Academic Partnerships and Programmes (CAPs), local partners, local care networks and community teams on the development of the Mind & Body agenda;
• To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes
• Lead engagement with internal and external partners to encourage contribution and sustain commitment to the strategic Mind & Body agenda, including key initiatives, strategic partnerships, and other decision making and direction setting activities;
• Supporting and facilitating CAG and CAP management teams through the core Mind & Body programme, advising, negotiating and enabling their drive and focus to achieve KHP mind & body objectives;
• Lead on senior conversations about service delivery to recommend new models of care or delivery or new ways of working, including new roles, in order to progress the integration of mental and physical healthcare.

Programme Management and Cross-team Collaboration
• Ensure that KHP supports the provision of high quality integrated healthcare across mental- physical healthcare settings and in line with both psychiatric and medical liaison models, embedding it across partner organisations, testing learning and improving services for patients
• Support the implementation and embedding of the operatinf model for the KHP 2030 Strategy, including supporting the development of collaborative delivery models that draw on the expertise and experience across KHP partnership teams
• Provide programme leadership, oversight and management to ensure robust programme planning, budgeting, and risk monitoring to achieve successful delivery
• Facilitate and drive the development of appropriate systems and mental-physical pathways to support the Mind & Body agenda

Communication, Engagement and Relationship Management
• Actively lead and promote KHP Mind & Body priorities and objectives across the Partner organisations and gain commitment and engagement of others in the KHP Mind & Body vision
• Lead strategic Mind & Body engagement with external partners and stakeholders, which may include imparting contentious information
• To act as a champion for patients and the local population and their interests and involve the public and patients in the development of the Mind & Body programme, including giving them a patient voice, setting up mechanisms for co-production and involvement within programme governance
• Strongly contribute to the delivery of communication and reporting material to the KHP Mind & Body programme committees, as well as to the overarching KHP operational, executive and CAG/CAP leadership groups. Work closely with the KHP Communications team to deliver the wider communication strategy for the programme
• To act as an ambassador for KHP and its aspirations and objectives externally, obtaining influence over policy direction and high level decision making in the context of a fast paced and ever changing complex environment
• To build on and further develop collaborative relationships with key partners in the larger health economy to ensure service designs are meeting the needs of the groups they are designed to serve
• To ensure that all learning is spread and shared locally across partnerships and programmes, as well as nationally and internationally.

Financial Management

• Budget holder and authorised signatory for the programme budget, with accountability for effective management of budgets and appropriate devolution of resources. Procure and contract services as appropriate ensuring correct procedures are adhered to and monitoring is in place

• Drive the programme to secure benefits identified in the benefits plan. This will include identifying and tracking financial benefits, value for money, efficiency and early identification and management of unintended benefits and dis-benefits
• To promote organisational efficiency, demonstrate cost effectiveness and embed a culture of value for money and return on investment through the programme; use of Lean methodology as appropriate
• Lead on all procurement processes for the programme, including project management and consultancy support, supplies, ensuring choice of best suppliers and value for money ensuring adherence to procurement requirements
• Comply with Standing Financial Instructions

This describes only the principal duties and responsibilities of the post holder. There are many other responsibilities implicit in these tasks, including the need to be mobile and work flexibly.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge or experience in health management/business systems/financial management

Knowledge/skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable success in managing change and performance and working on major change projects, leading teams and individuals and establishing clear work priorities with them

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of developing strategic plans and business cases which have been shown to deliver

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

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Documents to download

• Job Description - Programme Director - Fixed Term (PDF, 688.5KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)