Job summary
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.
About us
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the main responsibilities and duties for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the main responsibilities and duties for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree or equivalent level attained through experience
- Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Strong track record of managing significant resources
- Experience of managing a team of staff
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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 Adult Eating Disorders 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
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree or equivalent level attained through experience
- Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Strong track record of managing significant resources
- Experience of managing a team of staff
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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 Adult Eating Disorders 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
- 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
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).
