Head of Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships

Head of Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a values-led, compassionate and capable senior lead, with a demonstrable commitment to improving and supporting mental health, learning disabilities and autism, offering best patient care and enabling staff as well as the ability to deliver high quality, robust programmes, drive delivery and manage relationships at all organisational levels.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

This post is a senior lead position in the Jameson Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships team, working across the Jameson Division within Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) which provides adult mental health and learning disability services across NWL boroughs. It will work across the full transformation agenda, and take a specific leadership focus on ensuring delivery and implementation for divisional programmes, continuously working to embed and sustain developments and system change. The postholder will also hold key system relationships across the ICB.

The postholder will oversee and enable the delivery of the team's transformational portfolio. This involves direct management of two senior transformation and delivery managers who are covering all transformation deliverables for adults and older adults, and for people with learning disabilities and autism. This includes working across internal and external partners as necessary and delivery and development, planning & meaningful co-production.

The postholder needs to be dedicated to partnership working and appreciate the value community partnerships, including with VCSE, can bring to statutory health and care services.

About us

Our Vision

Wellbeing for life: We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual's quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support.

Our Values

1. Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
2. Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
3. Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
4. Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.

Job responsibilities

1. Act as a senior team lead for transformation and strategy, working closely with, and at times deputising for, the Associate Director of Strategy, System Transformation and Partnerships.
2. Oversight and responsibility of the delivery of adult mental health, learning disabilities and autism transformation, as well as any additional Divisional deliverables identified.
3. Acting as a key system partner and working closely with other organisations within the ICB.
4. Project lead complex programmes with full project management methodology.
5. Provide focus and support to embedding and sustaining changes from transformation & service development, enabling long term system change. This includes tracking progress as well as forward planning future delivery phases and setting the groundwork for success.
6. Working with the divisional team, support the prioritisation and delivery timelines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

1. Degree or equivalent relevant experience.
2. Masters or Post Graduate degree in management or equivalent years of demonstrable experience in a relevant programme management role.
3. Training in use of management consultancy techniques/strategic development tools e.g. D-5 methodology.

Experience

1. Relevant experience of working in a project environment.
2. Relevant NHS experience or similar environment working with senior leads.
3. Experience of roles managing and motivating staff.
4. Experience of delivering projects within clinical services.
5. Experience leading and delivering high profile Mental Health Five Year Forward View/Long Term Plan objectives.
6. Experience in development of funding proposals/bid leadership.
7. Experience working closely with or in the voluntary sector/community social enterprise.

Skills

1. Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and present sensitive information to large groups.
2. Experience and knowledge to plan over short term, medium and long term timeframes.
3. Ability to identify and resolve delivery challenges, and design problem-solving solutions.
4. Ability to mentor, team build and prioritise.
5. Ability to build a credible reputation amongst senior management teams, clinical staff and peers.
6. Ability to develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations, varying language and style as appropriate.
7. Excellent Excel, data analytics and basic modelling skills.

Knowledge

1. Knowledge of programme and project management.
2. Outstanding knowledge and understanding of the national requirements for mental health services.
3. Knowledge of the emerging NHS landscape including Integrated Care Systems and Integrated Care Partnerships.
4. Knowledge and understanding of the Mental Health Investment Standard, operational planning and budget management.
5. Knowledge and understanding of clinical services.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

AD of Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships

£82,462 to £93,773 a year, per annum inc HCAS