South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and are recognised for our care and treatment. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to positively impact patient care, outcomes, and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will have the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported by learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, we believe in providing excellent care which is delivered with pride and compassion. Everything we do is to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.
The Clinical Leadership Development Lead will play an important role in delivering our goal to improve patient care through an enhanced workforce who have collectively developed the competencies to enable improvement, innovation, and transformation within the Trust. They will facilitate the design and development of the Maudsley Clinical Leadership Development Programme in conjunction with SLaM Partners and in partnership with diverse staff and service user groups. The post holder will be a strong subject matter expert in leadership development to manage the design of the programme structure, content, and modules. They will lead the development of a leadership faculty and be responsible for the quality of programme delivery across all clinical groups.
Main duties of the job
* Lead the design and development of the Maudsley Clinical Leadership Development Programme to support improvements in leadership performance among multidisciplinary staff groups, including psychiatrists, senior nurses, psychologists, allied health professionals, social workers, and others.
* Establish, engage, and recruit a leadership faculty to deliver the programme, monitoring standards of practice and delivery.
* Work in partnership with SLaM Partners to pilot delivery of programme components including facilitation of event delivery to test and evaluate efficacy in preparation for programme roll-out.
* Work in partnership with healthcare leadership academics from Kings Business School to develop and embed an evaluation approach which measures programme effectiveness.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
By coming to work at our Trust, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. The Trust delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014, providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Work as a senior member of the project team responsible for the delivery of the Maudsley Clinical Leadership Development Programme to ensure that all work contributes to our goal to improve patient care through enhanced organisational leadership.
* Lead the delivery of data collection with diverse staff and service user groups to fully understand organisational leadership needs, using flexible engagement approaches, such as focus groups, workshops, interviews, and surveys, to ensure inclusivity and accessibility of co-production activities.
* Manage the collection, analysis, and synthesis of baseline data and learning from past initiatives, proactively identifying themes and trends which indicate concerns about culture, leadership, and improvement, working with SLaM Partners, People & OD, Learning and Development, Clinical teams, Staff networks, Equality and Diversity Leads, and Patient Experience Leads.
* Lead a review and analysis of a variety of external leadership development programmes from across acute/mental health trusts and wider partners in the healthcare system.
* Work in conjunction with specialists in service user involvement to enable co-production activities with patients and carers to design the module content through integration of patient stories and experiences.
* Manage the delivery of a robust evaluation framework to ensure the Leadership Development Programme is evaluated thoroughly and the team can demonstrate impact at multiple levels including individual and collective leadership identities, skills and competencies, behaviour change, and cultural change.
* Manage the design and integration of leadership competencies which meet goals to deliver equity of care and address healthcare inequalities. This will involve promoting equality and actively challenging unfair or discriminatory practice.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Master level qualification or equivalent experience in leadership development.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant experience of design, delivery, and implementation of leadership development interventions in a large/complex organisation.
Desirable criteria
* Experience in leadership development within healthcare organisations, working with clinicians across multidisciplinary groups.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Strong system leadership skills, able to work across boundaries and encourage collaboration.
* Ability to quickly establish credibility at a senior level and be seen as a senior colleague who provides considered, relevant advice and guidance.
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer; we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect, and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice.
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment.
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers, and our staff should be treated with compassion, respect, and dignity.
Please note:
* All applications for this post will need to be made online.
* Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* The closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
* Once you have submitted your application, you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
* Should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* Should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion; Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. #J-18808-Ljbffr