Job summary
Following the formation of the Mid and South Essex (MSE) Community Collaborative, we are seeking an innovative and committed individual to join our growing team. This is an exciting time for the NHS across Mid and South Essex as the partnership has been designed to foster collaborative working across community services, primary, acute and social care, with the key focus for delivering improved health and care to the communities we serve. The collaborative singularly provides you with a great opportunity to grow and develop your career.
Provide CIC, EPUT and NELFT are highly successful and growing organisations in their own right but also work in this collaborative arrangement to strengthen the place community services holds across our system.
The Integrated Care System in Mid and South Essex requires a new approach to leadership to ensure we can collectively address the challenges growing demand and complexity, twinned with financial austerity, present and the MSE Community Collaborative plays a key role in its future success. Provide CiC and EPUT now have the opportunity to recruit a new Joint Director for Delivery & Partnerships covering the Mid and South Essex geography within the collaborative. Your strong people skills will enable you to work across organisational boundaries and be a highly influential leader ensuring community care and mental health services hold their place in the system. You will be a strong decision maker and able to motivate colleagues across multidiscplinary teams to deliver high quality services whilst ensuring cost-effectiveness.
Main duties of the job
If you have a passion for transforming lives and a strong track record of leading teams in a complex organisation, we would love to hear from you. Above all you will be a people person who has experience of working both operationally and strategically, locally and across systems.
In return we offer a highly competitive salary, access to the NHS Pension Scheme and personal development opportunities to support your growth and wellbeing.
About us
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people's homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men's Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full job description and salary range information can be found in the job description attached to this advert.
Interviews will be conducted on 27th September, at St Margaret's Hospital in Epping, Essex.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Relevant clinical or social worker professional qualification at degree level, or relevant and equivalent operational and strategic knowledge of these areas.
Experience
Essential
2. A minimum of three years' senior operational management experience of community health, mental health and/or social services
3. Measurable success in managing equalities initiatives.
4. Comprehensive knowledge of health and social care policy and Mental Health Legislation.
5. Ability to work in partnership with senior clinicians and other key professionals within and outside the organisation and a partnership approach to work across interagency