Senior Programme Officer - Mental Health

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Service Mapping and Improvement
• Support the lead in mapping services to geographical footprints across the Borough.
• Identify opportunities for service improvement and patient outcomes through the co-location of services, closer to home.
• Develop detailed delivery plans for each of the 5 neighbourhoods/connect areas in Brent.

Integrated Pathways and Infrastructure
• Assist in the development of options for improving various services and creating integrated pathways.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure agreement on a shared vision for integrated services.
• Champion the ethos of co-production, especially with residents in the neighbourhoods

Stakeholder Engagement
• Support the delivery of stakeholder engagement activities to ensure program buy-in across the system.
• Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information to stakeholders, including that relating to financial flows or contractual set-ups relating to Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism
• Foster co-production with partners, ensuring resident involvement in decision-making processes.
• Promote ways of working that are conductive to the development of INTs and use persuasive skills, where sometimes the postholder will encounter resistance or need to resolve conflicting opinions to present a way forward.
• The postholder will also be required to present to stakeholder groups such as the GP forum or patient groups about the latest changes within the area of Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism

Project Management
• Develop and design the implementation plan, adhering to agreed timescales and milestones.
• Project manage key enablers such as workforce and OD, estates optimisation, ICT connectivity, and digitalisation.
• Hold extensive experience relating to project management including the various stages according to the PRINCE 2 methodology such as project initiation, planning a phase, managing a stage boundary etc.
• Where required, supporting the development of business cases to the ICP Partnership or to the ICB to develop requests for investment into Mental health, learning disabilities and autism
• The postholder will evaluate conflicting information made up of several components to be analysed and be capable of making an independent judgement about what that information means and be able to judge it accordingly and act with autonomy to determine a way forward.

Please refer to the attached Job description for more information about the role

Person specification

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Promotes equality and diversity in the workplace and (where applicable) in recruitment processes, ensuring equal opportunities for all people with protected characteristics

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant professional qualification at a Masters degree or equivalent level of experience.
• Project management qualification, or equivalent experience in programme/project delivery roles

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in leading transformation projects within health and/or social care settings.
• Proven experience in stakeholder, largely community engagement and co-production

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and experience across a range of relevant areas, including: finance, contracting, people management and project management.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 312.6KB)
• Person specification (PDF, 48.5KB)
• CNWL Staff Networks (PDF, 320.0KB)
• CNWL Values (PDF, 182.9KB)
• CNWL Reward and Wellbeing Handbook 2020 (PDF, 1.1MB)