King's Maudsley Partnership - Programme Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Strategy Development and Leadership/Management:

Lead on delivering the Kings Maudsley Partnership Roadmap in collaboration with the Director and Clinical Director, including development of projects and policies,working with clinical, operational and research colleagues on their implementation.

Lead and engage with all teams across the University and the Trust embed clinical and academic collaboration such that it delivers a set of specified benefits for patients and populations.

Lead engagement with internal and external partners to encourage contribution and sustain commitment to the Partnership and the Centre, including on key initiatives, and other decision making and direction setting activities

Support and facilitate clinical and academic teams throughout the change process, advising, negotiating and enabling their drive and focus to achieve the benefits set out within the programmes agreed Roadmap

Lead on senior conversations about the delivery of research for all model in the new centre, embedding research as a standard part of our offer to children, young people and families. This will involve developing and recommending new ways of working.

Work with the senior leadership team, fundraising team and other stakeholders to develop funding proposals for activities central to the mission of KMP-CYP.

Programme Management

Define appropriate milestones for programme delivery and ensure that there are plans and processes in place to deliver the agreed strategic goals via quarterly milestones and incorporate both clinical, academic and corporate dependencies.

Support the clinical and academic teams to successfully deliver milestones and benefits defined within business cases, and the KMP Roadmap/ programme plan.

Collaboratively develop existing programme management activities for the Partnership, including ongoing development of our balanced scorecard to demonstrate benefits of Partnership working for CYP mental health. Assess impacts and development mitigations for delivery risks and issues feeding these into wider business processes in the Trust and University

Communication, Engagement and People Management

Actively lead and promote the Partnerships strategic objectives and delivery priorities across the University and the Trust to gain commitment and engagement of others in the vision

Lead strategic engagement with external partners and stakeholders, which may include imparting contentious information

To act as a champion for patients and the local population and their interests and involve the public and patients in the development and delivery of the Partnership , including setting up mechanisms for lived experience (children and young people as well as parents and carers) and youth involvement and engagement within our activities and our governance

Work closely with the KMP Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager to deliver the wider communication strategy for the Partnership.

To act as an ambassador for the Partnership and its aspirations and objectives externally, obtaining influence over policy direction and high level decision making in the context of a fast paced and ever changing complex environment

• To build on and further develop collaborative relationships with key partners in the larger health economy to ensure service designs are meeting the needs of the groups they are designed to serve
• To ensure that all learning is spread and shared locally across wider KHP programmes, as well as nationally and internationally.
• Manage the programme team (including KMP Programme management and engagement officer) and matrix management of the KMP Senior Communications & Stakeholder Engagement Manager.

Financial Management

• Budget holder and authorised signatory for the Programme budget with accountability for effective management of budgets and appropriate devolution of resources. Procure and contract services as appropriate ensuring correct procedures are adhered to and monitoring is in place

Drive the Programme to secure benefits identified in the KMP Roadmap. This will include identifying and tracking financial benefits (e.g. via income generation or cash and non-cash releasing efficiencies) and early identification and management of unintended benefits and dis-benefits

Develop sustainable business plans for core activities of KMP-CYP, particularly its Clinical Research Facility and Digital Lab.

• To promote organisational efficiency, demonstrate cost effectiveness and embed a culture of value for money and return on investment through the Partnership

Comply with Standing Financial Instructions and ensure grant reporting in place for funding partners.

Other

Contribute to the Strategy & Transformation Senior Management Team in all aspects including objective setting, annual reports, development of long term strategy, providing assurance to internal/ external stakeholders and producing reports as and when required.

As a senior leader the Programme Lead will be required to deal with complex, difficult and occasionally contentious and conflicting matters; the post holder will be expected to have personal resilience and help colleagues to address and resolve difficulties with positivity.

Ensure the development of an open learning culture that stimulates innovation in the delivery of patient care and empowers front line staff.

Maintain own continuous professional development, and actively participate in appraisals and supervision.

Undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.

Travel between Trust sites and community partners in Lewisham will be required to support delivery, and occasion travel to other sites across the UK to learn from best practice.

This describes only the principal duties and responsibilities of the post holder. There are many other responsibilities implicit in these tasks, including the need to be mobile and work flexibly.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree and masters level qualification or equivalent knowledge or experience in health or research management/business systems
• oConsiderable senior management experience in a complex environment Experience delivering in a large and complex organisation and across Partnerships

Desirable

• Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) or equivalent qualification in programme management

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable success in managing change and performance and working on major change projects, leading teams and individuals and establishing clear work priorities with them
• A proven track record of budget management
• Experience resolving competing priorities working across a Partnership
• Experience of developing strategic plans and business cases which have been shown to deliver
• Experience leading collaboratively across clinical /academic teams
• Significant experience in the analysis, utilization and presentation of complex information, in order to secure service change

Desirable

• Experience leading programmes of clinical / academic collaboration.
• Experience delivering change in CYP mental health services or research landscape

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to interrogate data and identify and work with outputs
• oEvidence of excellent management & leadership skills, with ability to think and work strategically
• Knowledge of higher education, research and innovation sector
• Knowledge of NHS and CYP mental health services landscape
• Understanding of the issues affecting the Trust and partner organisations and the ability to build strong, effective and collaborative working relationships with success in working across professions and services
• Ability to advocate for and embed a focus on equality, diversity and inclusion of lived experience / youth voice in all service development and innovation
• Excellent communication skills, including ointerpersonal skills oinfluencing and negotiation skills owriting and presentation skills

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

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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

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Denmark Hill

London

SE5 8AZ

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)