Job summary
The Regional Mental Health Team provides the organisational model that brings together patients and carers, health and social care professionals and organisations to achieve programmes of significant and lasting improvement where a whole system or collective endeavour is required to achieve improvements in service quality. We are currently recruiting to the post of Mental Health Programme Manager.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead on the continued development of our Mental Health programme of work. As part of the Regional MH Team at a critical time, this post will lead mental health transformation and quality improvement across the six systems in East. The post holder will work alongside the MH Senior Team, clinical leads, ICB leads, regional and national teams, commissioners and providers to lead transformation of mental health pathways across the East of England. It is essential that the post holder is able to hit the ground running, have credibility within this field and an ability to engage quickly, driving the agenda forward and delivering at pace.
This is a permanent position being offered on a hybrid contract with some days home based working and some days at the NHSE East Region office base in Fulbourn, Cambridge. There is occasional need for travel across the Region and nationally.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have strong values, champion quality of care, have exceptional communication and quality improvement skills, be able to influence and encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries and hold patient care at the heart of their work. They will have extensive knowledge of programme management and experience of delivering large scale projects across organisational and geographic boundaries. Knowledge of mental health service delivery and current mental health policy would be a distinct advantage. The post-holder will be self-motivated and able to evidence highly developed negotiation and influencing skills at a senior level.
As Mental Health Programme Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in leading transformation of mental health services across the East of England.. The post holder will lead and support quality improvement in complex pathways of care through expertise in:
Leadership of diverse stakeholder groups to deliver change
Developing effective l networks
Change management, quality improvement methodology and improvement science
Programme and project management.
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Together with other members of the Regional Mental Heath Team, the Mental Health Programme Manager will ensure regional activities support commissioners with their core purpose of delivering national mental health strategy, quality improvement and ultimately benefit patient and population health outcomes.
The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for East of England Mental Health Team.
The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Together with other members of the Regional Mental Heath Team, the Mental Health Programme Manager will ensure regional activities support commissioners with their core purpose of delivering national mental health strategy, quality improvement and ultimately benefit patient and population health outcomes.
The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for East of England Mental Health Team.
The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Desirable
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body.
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly 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.
- Demonstrable 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.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals
Desirable
- Interpreting national policy for implementation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Desirable
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body.
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly 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.
- Demonstrable 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.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals
Desirable
- Interpreting national policy for implementation.
Additional information
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).
