The Health and Justice and Armed Forces health teams are responsible for the commissioning of specialised healthcare services for people in prisons, immigration centres, secure children’s facilities and for serving members of the armed forces, veterans, and their families. The programmes collectively seek to improve health outcomes and improve lives of those within our health and justice, migrant health and Sexual Assault and Abuse Services (SAAS) population. The Quality and Lived Experience agenda is interwoven throughout.
The newly formed Migrant health programme team are responsible via Heads of Detained Migrant Health leads, in providing an integrated approach to migrant health following the recent Illegal Migration Act (IMA). The post holder will be responsible for supporting Heads of Migrant Health in developing policies, director briefs and papers and agendas in the migrant health agenda and wider governance and assurance of health and justice, armed forces and SAAS. Responsible for the delivery of Detained and Non-Detained Migrant health services teams the new team is vital to ensure pathways are streamlined and outcomes improved.
The role supports the team to deliver the specification on behalf of the National Director for Health and Justice as well as specific partners and broader organisational requirements in relation to the Migrant Health portfolio. The postholder will appreciate and understand the full extent of the legal and sensitivities of this portfolio.
The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions, and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
The post holder is responsible for, but not limited to:
• play a key role in supporting the health & justice delivery team with links to supporting the corporate team helping ensure the oversight of programme management and governance is in place and adhered to.
• providing high quality support to key underpinning governance structures within the portfolio and wider to include Spec Comm Health & Justice Delivery Group and Strategy Group
• act as a key contact, and oversight of inter-departmental requests supporting any strategy developments as required
• ensure that best practice is developed and delivered throughout the directorate and shared with regional leads for national programme alignment. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate, and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.
• oversee the tracking of progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks, cross-programme dependencies, and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
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Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Heads of Migrant Health in developing policies, director briefs and papers and agendas in the migrant health agenda and wider governance and assurance of health and justice, armed forces and SAAS.
The post holder will support the Associate Director on matters arising from key stakeholders including policy leads from across Justice, Migrant Health Armed Forces and SAAs as repository for the overall programme database.
Improving quality and outcomes
• To ensure the Migrant Health programmes of works are well-organised, to recognised national programme support methodology, with an auditable record of programme budget, documentation, risks, issues, and decisions, so that progress can be evidenced, and lessons learned.
• To work collaboratively across NHS England matrix, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio.
Enabling patient and public involvement
• To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of NHS England.
• To ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard.
• To embed patient and public involvement within NHS England at all levels of decision making.
Promoting equality and reducing inequalities
• To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.
• To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
Partnership and cross boundary working
• To ensure that the internal and regional programme partners / stakeholders are engaged and consulted according to the programme plan. To work across NHS England external boundaries with Migration Health and criminal justice partners including Home Office, HMPPS, probation services and local authorities, engaged with the various projects.
• To ensure that consistent and high-quality communication is used to promote and achieve the objectives of the programme.
Leadership for transformational change
• To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the Directorate.
• To line manage the migrant health support team ensuring continuity through strong leadership values.
Using insight and evidence for improvement
• To use previous experience of project / programme working to improve the working practices of the team.
• To use previous healthcare / NHS experience to suggest improvements to the deliverables of the programme.
Developing an excellent organisation
• To ensure health, safety, and wellbeing of all staff within the department.
• To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department.
• To always adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Jan 2025