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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
Formally deputising for the Integrated Care Director and to develop, lead and manage a group of services, as part of the Trust's locality-based services.
To lead on, or work collaboratively with other colleagues, to support the Trust's vision in developing the very best system of care through creative partnerships with patients, carers, staff and stakeholders relating to the group of services. Direct management of Services will be specific to the relevant directorate and may include:
1. Babies, children and young people community services, including public health nursing, children's development centres, children's therapy services and CAMHS
2. Children and young people inpatient mental health and crisis services
3. Specifically commissioned services for Babies, children and young people
This role will provide a key leadership role in coordinating service provision across the outer North East London (ONEL) area, working alongside locality-based leadership roles to ensure that effective partnerships are maintained.
This role is a significant leadership role, working alongside similar counterparts in providing an effective and inclusive leadership model for babies, children and young people services in NELFT.
The post holder will ideally have a relevant clinical background in BCYP services or extensive management of these type of services.
Main duties of the job
1. To formally deputise for the Integrated Care Director, both externally and internally on all aspects of the directorate.
2. To build effective partnerships with ICBs, Local Authorities, Acute Care Trusts, and other Public Sector/Voluntary Sector providers in both your own portfolio and other directorate portfolios.
3. To ensure that communication with partners is effective and enables a cohesive system-wide environment to foster positive patient outcomes from both a health and social care perspective.
4. To communicate effectively within NELFT to ensure that Directors and above are appraised of key operational issues.
5. To set and review objectives, in the context of strategic developments, within the Services.
6. To hold budgetary responsibility and accountability relating to all service areas within the remit of the post.
7. To effectively report against targets and provide insights into the performance of the Directorate.
8. To promote ways in which services can project a more positive and socially inclusive view of health and social care.
9. To ensure a culture where staff, patients, the public and carers are involved in the decision-making processes of services and in the wider context of NELFT is maintained.
10. To participate in all discussions and decision-making processes that relate to the strategic plans, liaising closely with, and ensuring these augment with those of other areas within the NELFT family.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Educated to Masters Level or equivalent experience through on-the-job training/development.
Desirable criteria
* Professional qualification/registration.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of working at senior managerial level/Assistant Director level.
* 5 years or more of experience in performance management, business planning in public sector.
* Experience of successful organisational change.
* Experience of successful track record for delivering services to ethnic minority communities.
* Experience of establishing constructive interagency partnerships.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of audit in a clinical setting.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Knowledge of NHS priorities and compliance requirements in the area of babies, children and young people.
* Knowledge of change management, quality improvement techniques.
Desirable criteria
* An understanding of national health and social care strategy and policy, particularly in relation to mental health.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Interpersonal and communication skills.
* Ability to work in partnership with senior clinicians to deliver complex change.
* Effective management processes and timely decision making.
* Ability to evaluate complex information and draw effective conclusions.
* Ability to work under pressure, effectively managing competing demands.
* Outstanding influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
Desirable criteria
* Ability to empower and create a culture of achievement.
Benefits
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 recognised 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.
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.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
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