Senior Project Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ensure collaboration between the three Trusts and Waythrough (our community partner) in relation to TUPE and ongoing workforce planning.

Despite being separate contracts, the North & South London L&D and MHTR services are expected to collaborate closely to ensure seamless service delivery. This includes sharing best practice, learning from each others experiences, and jointly addressing challenges related to service delivery and external partnerships.

This post will support this collaboration, facilitating a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining how we will work together. This may include, but is not limited to:

joint meetings

data sharing

shared training initiatives

other cooperative activities

This post will lead the integration of the L&D service with the Primary Mens MHTR service is central to the delivery of the South London Integrated Non-Custodial service, working with SLP Trusts and partners. The aim is to create a streamlined, collaborative pathway that ensures continuity of care for individuals as they move through the CJS, promoting better outcomes and reducing reoffending rates.

Supporting the process for vetting and onboarding staff as part of the mobilisation period and seeking to collaborate with commissioners and partners to unblock vetting process blocks.

Supporting new arrangements for data collation, and reporting to the North London collaborative who have overall pan-London data responsibility for L&D and MHTR

Support colleagues to ensure contracts are agreed and signed in the period prior to contract commencement.

Undertake the required reporting on progress to relevant groups across the SLP and wider partners as necessary, ensuring lead Executives and groups (SLP Adult Secure Programme Partnership Group and Clinical and Service Director Group) are appropriately briefed and regular reporting is given to these groups.

Work with senior colleagues across organisations to ensure compliance with local governance procedures and deadlines, ensuring that information is expressed in the appropriate style for each organisation/Trust. Provide adaptable communications at the appropriate level; this may be complicated by the various stakeholders processes

Lead and establish working groups and workstreams (e.g. the Mobilisation Working Group) as necessary to align with the agreed strategic direction and mobilisation and delivery plans and work with leads to deliver these.

Ensure that processes are in place to ensure that key commitments made in the tender submission are met and work with colleagues to deliver these.

Ensuring robust information sharing agreements are in place, formalised through an MOU between the services that will underpin the integration. These agreements will allow for the secure and timely exchange of data, ensuring continuity of care as individuals transition from police custody to court and where applicable into community-based treatment.

Leading the integration and pathway development with the Womens MHTR service (not jointly commissioned but applying the same principles of integration), L&D practitioners will identify and screen eligible women and consult with the womens MHTR service to ensure appropriate referrals and support through the PSR process.

To support the London L&D and MHTR team and lead on specific work plans around co-development and making sure the voices of service users are captured in the strategic ambitions moving forward. Including supporting a service peer review process.

The post holder will champion service user involvement in all aspects of service mobilization and delivery, working with Trust and Community partners, the North London L&D and MHTR service, SLP and NHSE.

The postholder will be expected to uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality, to create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.

Responsibility for leading and collaboration on a range of policy implementation across multi agencies including the North London L&D and MHTR service, SLP, NHSE, Community partners and HMPPS.

The post holder will be required to work closely with a range of partners including the North London L&D and MHTR service, SLP, our Trust partners SLaM and SWLStG, our community partner Waythrough, NHSE, Police and HMPPS. The post holder will collaborate with people who have committed offences as service users, their carers, and members of the public in ensuring effective consultation and involvement.

The postholder will work with colleagues and stakeholders to develop services and pathways that are equitable and demonstrate outcome focused activity.

To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the team.

To work with colleagues within SLP and more broadly in the North region to develop mechanisms to collect evidence to improve services or patient pathways and provide evidence and intelligence to improve national standards for care and treatment both internally and externally.

The postholder will be expected to: -

Ensure health, safety and wellbeing of self and staff within team.

Ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department.

Adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times.

There will be line management responsibilities for this post, and the post holder will be required to support colleagues and junior staff throughout the team and for new starters via team inductions, and they will be expected to take an active part in team support via reflective practice.

Where required the individual may be asked to work alongside a colleague offering skills development as well as leading team training on possible project management techniques or assisting in development of specific training tasks as the role requires. As such the person should be able to design, facilitate and lead in training packages as required.

Supervision and support as part of line management and reporting to the L&D and MHTR service will be offered as well as trust-based HR systems.

The role does not require direct budget management; however, the individual should be aware of budgetary forecasting, being able to take part in and support financial planning alongside colleagues from the wider team.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• oExtensive knowledge of Liaison and Diversion and Mental Health Treatment Requirement services and how these work with the Criminal Justice System

Skills, Knowlegde and Abilities

Essential

• oHighly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio.
• oDemonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and information which may include difficult and controversial issues, across a wide range of audiences Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
• oEvidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.

oEvidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.

Essential

• oEducated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bracton Centre

Bracton Lane

Dartford

DA2 7AF

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)