Job summary
**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post**
An exciting opportunity to lead the implementation of neighbourhood health in Greenwich. Oxleas the Health Host, seeks a person with experience working across ages and a proven record of leadership and change management innovation.
We are initially focusing on long term conditions, frailty & children's services and aim to expand to other health and care priorities next year. Your work across these services will help create joined-up, person-centred services that tackle health inequalities and improve outcomes for local people of all ages as set out in the national10 Year Health Plan and the Neighbourhood Health Framework.
In Greenwich, the Healthier Greenwich Partnership, brings together a wide range of partners in the borough including the council, local Trusts and Community Hospice, supported by Oxleas in the Health Host role. The aim is to deliver integrated health and care services locally, making access easier and supporting healthier, independent lives while reducing unnecessary hospital visits.
We are working in 4 neighbourhoods in Greenwich: Central, East, West & South. x4 part time roles or x2 full time roles will be considered, please state your preference in your application.
We welcome applications from the voluntary sector, children and adult social care or the NHS, and happy to consider secondments from other organisations.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the move from design and set-up, into day-to-day delivery, working closely with partners across health, social care, the voluntary sector and local communities covering all ages.
- Experience working with the voluntary sector, children and adult social care, or the NHS
- Work collaboratively across a wide range of organisational and cultural boundaries, maintaining a clear sense of objectives and purpose
- Lead projects in complex and challenging environments
- Set up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Produce complex written project briefs and reports, with supporting analysis, to support the decision-making functions.
- Analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders
- Developing and shaping community hub(s)
- Working with workstream enablers (e.g. digital and workforce) to ensure work is embedded in the community
- Working with primary care to develop and deliver standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences
- Working with data and insight to support planning, decision-making and improvement
- Facilitate team development workshops and organisational development interventions
- Experience of successfully implementing change in a complex multi organisational environment with a wide range of stakeholders
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Developing and shaping community hub(s)
- Working withworkstreamenablers (e.g. digital and workforce) to ensure work is embedded in the community
- Working with primary care to develop and deliver standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Strong programme and project management skills, with the ability to juggle priorities in a complex environment
- Work across organisational boundaries and influence without direct authority
- Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences
- Experience working with data and insight to support planning,decision-makingand improvement
- The ability to stay calm,constructiveand solutions-focused when navigating challenge or disagreement
- Have experience delivering complex programmes, service change or transformation involving multiple partners
- Understand neighbourhood working, integrated care and place-based and people centred approaches
- Able to translate national policy and strategy into practical local delivery
- Bring structure to ambiguity and help teams move from ideas to action
- Care deeply about reducing inequalities and improving outcomes for communities
- Acting as the key lead to escalate risks or concerns
- Leading on data collection and evaluation
- Organising or commissioning training as needed
- Setting up,maintainingand developing project documentation
- Work with partners to coordinate budgets and the best utilisation of investment, ensuring there are no duplication of resources
- Collaborate with the Leadership Team to explore ideas and develop business cases for future developments within neighbourhoods, and what they mean in practice for people,timeand resources
- Look ahead at activity and demand to help plan and shape future neighbourhood services and initiatives
- Monitorhow services are running, spotting risks or issues early and working with partners to address them
- Support clear decision-making and accountability, helping neighbourhood work stay focused and well-governed
- Support the development and delivery of priority pathways such as frailty, multiple long-term conditions, and children and young people
- Help teams across primary care, social care, communityservicesand hospitals work as one around peoples needs
- Nurture networks across and beyond your neighbourhood to bring people from different organisations together
- Be the lead for developing community-based neighbourhood hubs in each neighbourhood
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Developing and shaping community hub(s)
- Working withworkstreamenablers (e.g. digital and workforce) to ensure work is embedded in the community
- Working with primary care to develop and deliver standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Strong programme and project management skills, with the ability to juggle priorities in a complex environment
- Work across organisational boundaries and influence without direct authority
- Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences
- Experience working with data and insight to support planning,decision-makingand improvement
- The ability to stay calm,constructiveand solutions-focused when navigating challenge or disagreement
- Have experience delivering complex programmes, service change or transformation involving multiple partners
- Understand neighbourhood working, integrated care and place-based and people centred approaches
- Able to translate national policy and strategy into practical local delivery
- Bring structure to ambiguity and help teams move from ideas to action
- Care deeply about reducing inequalities and improving outcomes for communities
- Acting as the key lead to escalate risks or concerns
- Leading on data collection and evaluation
- Organising or commissioning training as needed
- Setting up,maintainingand developing project documentation
- Work with partners to coordinate budgets and the best utilisation of investment, ensuring there are no duplication of resources
- Collaborate with the Leadership Team to explore ideas and develop business cases for future developments within neighbourhoods, and what they mean in practice for people,timeand resources
- Look ahead at activity and demand to help plan and shape future neighbourhood services and initiatives
- Monitorhow services are running, spotting risks or issues early and working with partners to address them
- Support clear decision-making and accountability, helping neighbourhood work stay focused and well-governed
- Support the development and delivery of priority pathways such as frailty, multiple long-term conditions, and children and young people
- Help teams across primary care, social care, communityservicesand hospitals work as one around peoples needs
- Nurture networks across and beyond your neighbourhood to bring people from different organisations together
- Be the lead for developing community-based neighbourhood hubs in each neighbourhood
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's level OR equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. Experience in the voluntary sector, children and adult social care or the NHS
- Evidence of continued professional development. PRINCE2 or alternative methodology trained
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in health, children and adult social care, local government or a related public sector environment or related voluntary sector role across all ages. Minimum 5 years.
- Evidence of leading previous programmes/projects successfully particularly where staff engagement is integral to its success
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries. Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders
- Experience of evaluating service delivery including contract and KPI monitoring
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and communicate complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's level OR equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. Experience in the voluntary sector, children and adult social care or the NHS
- Evidence of continued professional development. PRINCE2 or alternative methodology trained
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in health, children and adult social care, local government or a related public sector environment or related voluntary sector role across all ages. Minimum 5 years.
- Evidence of leading previous programmes/projects successfully particularly where staff engagement is integral to its success
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries. Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders
- Experience of evaluating service delivery including contract and KPI monitoring
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and communicate complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
181 Lodge Hill Goldie Leigh Lodge Hill Abbey Wood
Greenwich
SE2 0AY
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
