The postholder will work as part of a small corporate team responsible for leading integrated care, population health, system planning and transformation. This may include working on capital plans to transform the physical infrastructure surrounding mental health services, in addition to plans regarding the change of clinical pathways and models of care.
The postholder will also work as part of our NEL MHLDA Collaborative Team, working closely with colleagues from NELFT and NELICB, and will have significant leadership responsibilities across the system, with a particular emphasis on mental health in urgent and emergency care pathways.
The postholder will have a particular focus on developing our vision and strategy for adult mental health, which will include extensive partnership working with:
Working alongside our clinical and care professional leaders to deliver our plans to improve outcomes, quality value and equity for adults with mental health conditions in NEL, including mental health in emergency departments, mental health crisis services in the community, and mental health inpatient care. In addition to your system responsibilities, you will also have responsibilities to lead and support the delivery of improvements within ELFT.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
• Provide visible and present leadership - modelling a system mindset and value-base - at place, system, regional and national meetings and forums
• Develop vision and culture across partners, engaging staff, particularly where there is a need to challenge orthodoxies in clinical practice in mental health care or champion parity of esteem for people with mental health conditions using physical health services e.g. emergency departments
• Champion service user and citizen participation
• Develop & coordinate system governance arrangements
• Provide constructive critical support and challenge to the Trust and system partners to ensure momentum
• Lead a small team to deliver on clinical transformation objectives
• Ensure good programme management discipline is in place where relevant to deliver the transformation
• Develop with partners system demand management plans, potentially including efficiency schemes, and aligning commissioner and provider schemes where appropriate
• Explicitly plan to tackle health inequalities
• Lead system-wide clinical transformation schemes, involving both capital and revenue funding, uniting people behind a shared vision and aim
• Use triple aim and quality improvement tools to systematically support complex transformation & improvement
• Use data to tell stories and support transformation efforts, particularly where there are differing perspectives and conflicting reports
• Ensure system performance against national, ICS and local targets is understood and kept under review within the Trust and systems
• Develop appropriate governance arrangements to ensure early identification and mitigation of performance and delivery risks in systems. For example, representing the MHLDA Collaborative at the NEL Urgent and Emergency Care Board and other partnership forums
· Actively develop the role, and tobe highly flexible in their approach both to developing the role, and in adapting to the role as it changes
· The post-holder will be required to effectively influence and negotiate delivery against the programme with a number of partners at both place and system level, internally and externally, with clinical and non-clinical staff, and with service users and carers
· The post holder will be required to provide and receive highly complex information; translating concept into practice, where there will likely be barriers to understanding
· The post holder will also be required to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups and to communicate effectively in an uncertain, potentially antagonistic atmosphere
· The postholder will be required to communicate effectively with service users and carers, internal staff and external agencies to develop engagement with and commitment to the programme
· The postholder will be required to support the operation of Programme Boards as appropriate, ensuring progress is reported to the Trust Board and board committees, and through agreed system governance structures
· Participate in national events and forums and working groups to share learning
· The postholder will be required to manage a programme budget, ensuring transformation monies are deployed effectively.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Feb 2025