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Strategic Director of Relational Care, Rainham
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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
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Posted:
16.02.2025
Expiry Date:
02.04.2025
Job Description:
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Job overview
Are you interested in joining NELFT to help us create an innovative new team at the heart of the organisation? Its purpose will be to drive culture change towards more relational models of care and ways of working. Putting relationships first is a fundamental ethos that we want to bring about across our clinical teams and this will require a concerted programme of action on a number of fronts.
We are looking to find an individual who will lead and develop the team that will shape the culture of NELFT.
The work will involve a range of skills, including strategic collaboration with multiple stakeholders, quality improvement, engagement with research and development, development and delivery of front line staff training and change programmes, and promotion of this agenda and ethos across the organisation.
You will lead the new Relational Care Team jointly with the Clinical Director for Relational Care and they will also work closely with and manage the Relational Care Project Manager, the Lived Experience Lead for Relational Care, an admin team, and also a group of Open Dialogue trained coaches, who will work jointly across the Relational Care Team and the Trust’s innovative Dialogue First service.
Main duties of the job
Leadership
* Working closely alongside the new Clinical Director for Relational Care to help build, sustain and lead the new Relational Care Team in NELFT.
* Oversee and manage the Relational Care Project Manager, the Lived Experience Lead for Relational Care, an admin team and also a group of Open Dialogue trained coaches, who will work jointly across the Relational Care Team and the Trust’s innovative Dialogue First service.
* Work alongside service users and carers to co-produce change from the ground up.
* Work alongside partner organisations and agencies to co-deliver programmes of work where required and promote partnership working.
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).
On-call payment
This post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts payment of the basic salary.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication
* To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers and clinical leads within the Trust.
* To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.
* Participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identify improvements to service provision.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role can be discussed at the interview stage.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Person specification
* Educated to master’s level or equivalent experience at a senior level in Transformation and Improvement methodologies.
* Qualification in leadership and management, or equivalent experience at senior level.
* Additional requirement for expert/specialist knowledge (doctorate level) across a number of functions: transformation, assurance, quality management, risk management.
* Experience in achieving co-production of projects with stakeholders, staff, service users, carers, partner organisations.
* Wide understanding of current NHS issues.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognized as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
* Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
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