Job summary
Please note:Applicants must have relevant experience in mental health.
ThisroleisforaDeputyChiefOperatingOfficer working directly to theCOO,providing senior operational and strategic leadership ensuring the effective provision of health and care services across theorganisation. Therolewillleadandbeaccountableforthedeliveryofoperational clinicalservicesingeographicalareas. The post holder will be accountable for the coordination and delivery of high quality and safe clinical mental healthservices, working in partnership with Medical Directors, professional leads and wider partners for health and care delivery. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring flexibility in capacity tomeetdemandand deliverboththelocalqualityandsafetyagendaand all service targets. The role will lead in driving key opportunities across the trust to support integrated working acrossservices as well as across mental health and specialist services, to ensure they deliver key improvements for our patients and carers. It will ensure the effective implementation of pathways, supporting the emergence of Integrated neighbourhoodworking and ongoingworkSouth London Partnership. This role will need torepresent services in relevant forums, in particular beresponsibleastheTrust's representativeintheplace -based partnerships and integrated carebasedpartnershipsand carepathways, feeding into system level delivery for SE London footprint.
Main duties of the job
Management and Leadership
Operational Management
Communication
- Communicates at the highest level within the Trust and across other external organisations and agencies, with respect tohighly sensitiveand highly contentious information, including long term strategy,resourcesandfinance,hospitalclosures,redeploymentofstaff,service-relatedinformation, changes in models of service delivery and governance.
Workforce
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Tomanageandsupervisedirectmanagementreportsasidentifiedforseveralservices.
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Todevelopcohesive,motivatedhighperformingteamsensuringthe effectiveleadershipofstaff.
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About us
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated therefore have a comprehensive benefits package on offerSome of our amazing benefits are highlighted here:- Generous pay, pensions and annual leave.- Work life balance and supportive of a range of flexible working options- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.Other benefits include:o Counselling serviceso Wellbeing eventso Long service awardso Cycle to work schemeo Season ticket loano Staff restaurants
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to demonstrate a personal commitment to fairness and will focus on ensuring fairness in all that we do.
Thisisnotlimitedtobutincludesservicedeliveryandpeople management,ensuring thatprocess, resourceallocationand availability of opportunityoperatein a transparent,consistentand non-discriminatory way. The post holder is expected to provide visible leadership and promotehigh standardsby modelling the values andbehavioursexpected of a senior manager in the NHS.
The post holder needs to work as a dynamic, innovative leader using a positive, strong influencing style to ensure services are runeffectivelyandtobudget,ensuring thatthe Trustworkina positiveandcollaborative manner. Key responsibilities will require strong relationship management with a range of stakeholders including all local carer and user groups. The role will support the executive team, Non-ExecutiveDirectorsand wider system leadership to achieve the Trust strategy,visionandobjectives
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to demonstrate a personal commitment to fairness and will focus on ensuring fairness in all that we do.
Thisisnotlimitedtobutincludesservicedeliveryandpeople management,ensuring thatprocess, resourceallocationand availability of opportunityoperatein a transparent,consistentand non-discriminatory way. The post holder is expected to provide visible leadership and promotehigh standardsby modelling the values andbehavioursexpected of a senior manager in the NHS.
The post holder needs to work as a dynamic, innovative leader using a positive, strong influencing style to ensure services are runeffectivelyandtobudget,ensuring thatthe Trustworkina positiveandcollaborative manner. Key responsibilities will require strong relationship management with a range of stakeholders including all local carer and user groups. The role will support the executive team, Non-ExecutiveDirectorsand wider system leadership to achieve the Trust strategy,visionandobjectives
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Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or related experience.
- Relevant professional qualification in leadership
- Evidence of ongoing professional development, particularly in health and care leadership, operational leadership and/or strategy
Experience
Essential
- Significant recent senior management experience within a health and care setting
- Significant and senior level experience of NHS, social care, local authorities and more broadly across the government, private and voluntary sector providers.
- Significant experience of operational management of services
- Experience of negotiating contracts
- Experience of working in partnership with other mental health/ NHS Trusts / primary care services / voluntary sector
- Substantial budget management experience
- Significant experience of service transformation, care pathways and new models of care
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES
Essential
- Significant working knowledge and understanding of present health policy in relation to services provided by the Trust and expectations of stakeholders
- Skills, capability and demonstrate experience is managing complex service change, service transformation, care pathway development and implementation of new and innvoative models of care.
- Experience of involving service users and carers in service redesign and improvement
- Ability to manage and motivate diverse and multi-professional teams, transforming cultures.
- Evidence of systems working with ICB and leading work streams at a system level
- Skills and capability in delivery improved flow and inter organisational working to manage flow across the organisation
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential
- Track record and able to demonstrate political acumen
- Innovative and strategic thinker
- Demonstrable ability to manage, and to promote diversity in day-to-day practice of self and others
- Able to influence others, including service users and carers, in service planning and delivery
- Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the role and have the ability to travel within the geographical area and wider within a reasonable timeframe
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or related experience.
- Relevant professional qualification in leadership
- Evidence of ongoing professional development, particularly in health and care leadership, operational leadership and/or strategy
Experience
Essential
- Significant recent senior management experience within a health and care setting
- Significant and senior level experience of NHS, social care, local authorities and more broadly across the government, private and voluntary sector providers.
- Significant experience of operational management of services
- Experience of negotiating contracts
- Experience of working in partnership with other mental health/ NHS Trusts / primary care services / voluntary sector
- Substantial budget management experience
- Significant experience of service transformation, care pathways and new models of care
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES
Essential
- Significant working knowledge and understanding of present health policy in relation to services provided by the Trust and expectations of stakeholders
- Skills, capability and demonstrate experience is managing complex service change, service transformation, care pathway development and implementation of new and innvoative models of care.
- Experience of involving service users and carers in service redesign and improvement
- Ability to manage and motivate diverse and multi-professional teams, transforming cultures.
- Evidence of systems working with ICB and leading work streams at a system level
- Skills and capability in delivery improved flow and inter organisational working to manage flow across the organisation
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential
- Track record and able to demonstrate political acumen
- Innovative and strategic thinker
- Demonstrable ability to manage, and to promote diversity in day-to-day practice of self and others
- Able to influence others, including service users and carers, in service planning and delivery
- Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the role and have the ability to travel within the geographical area and wider within a reasonable timeframe
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).
