SLP Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service 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

This is a key senior leadership role which will enable the CAMHS Provider Collaborative to transform pathways at scale across south London as well as embedding robust programme management and setting future strategic intent. The role will sit within the central SLP commissioning support team and will work closely with clinical and operational colleagues from constituent SLP trusts and the CAMHS Clinical Director to transform CAMHS pathways and improve outcomes across south London. This role has a high level of accountability for compliance with clinical and operational standards across CAMHS providers.

Main duties of the job

The CAMHS Programme Director will deliver three key objectives:

• Setting and ensuring strategic direction for the CAMHS PC, including developing and implementing a transformational plan to deliver pathway improvements and to ensure sustainable CAMHS services for the future. This will require the management of service development.
• Establishing and maintaining a robust programme management approach for the CAMHS PC
• Maintaining and building on existing collaborative relationships both between the CAMHS SLP partner Trusts and with external partners.

Working for our organisation

The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP):

The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) is a collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, (Oxleas) South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, (SLaM), and South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) between them delivering mental health services to a population of more than three million people. The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and deliver best practice consistently to all patients. Since its inception, the SLP has been a resilient and effective partnership that has improved patient experience, introduced innovation, and developed new services across the 12 boroughs of south London.

The CAMHS Programme:
Working in partnership to deliver CAMHS since 2017, in 2020 SLP were successful in their application to become a CAMHS Provider Collaborative. Our ambition is for all children and young people in south London to have consistent, equal access to the very best mental health services. We strive to provide responsive, flexible and appropriate community support and interventions to avoid A&E attendance and admissions. Mental health services should be joined-up, logical and accessible to patients and their families/carers at all stages

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for the main responsibilities and duties for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters degree or equivalent level attained through experience
• Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant senior level experience within a health and/or care environment, including programme and transformational leadership.
• Experience of leading the development of business cases, including options appraisals and the associated modelling. Experience of developing long-term strategic plans
• Experience of leading significant transformational change programmes using collaborative and co-production approaches
• Experience of multi-disciplinary collaboration at a senior level across multiple stakeholders
• Experience of working in matrix environments and with complex service structures
• Experience of commissioning services across a range of NHS and non- NHS providers
• Experience of managing a budget

Desirable criteria

• Strong track record of managing significant resources
• Experience of managing a team of staff

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Understanding of the provision and delivery of health and social care services and the ambitions for transforming these within a provider collaborative system. Knowledge of specialist services and specifically CAMHS will be an advantage.
• Astute strategic and political awareness and understanding of the external NHS environment with an ability to provide collaborative leadership through challenges
• Ability to influence across multiple diverse stakeholder groups
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and maintain strong working relationships
• Able to analyse complex data and present it to diverse stakeholder audiences
• Highly effective change management skills
• Ability to understand and analyse complex financial, performance, activity, quality and workforce data, interpret meanings, make recommendations and present this clearly to a range of audiences
• Strong programme management and planning skills
• Exceptional all-round written and verbal communication skills for various audiences
• Ability to advocate equality, diversity and inclusion to lead to the improvement of services
• Ability to prioritise competing demands and work effectively with colleagues in a high pressured environment
• High degree of IT literacy and ability to use MS Office
• Strong attention to detail

Personal

Essential criteria

• Flexibility and pragmatism to be able to judge the right approach to differing elements of work
• High level of personal integrity
• Able to concentrate at an intense level for prolonged periods, particularly during board and similar level meetings
• Enthusiastic team player but confident to work autonomously to deliver portfolio area
• Ability to behave in line with SLP values and commitments as well as the trust values across the 3 SLP trusts
• Belief in co-production and involvement approaches and the value that they add to transformation/ service delivery

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

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe'

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• SLP CAMHS Programme Director_JDPS (PDF, 239.5KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)