King's Maudsley Partnership - Programme Lead

King's Maudsley Partnership - Programme Lead

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Against a backdrop of rising need, the vision of the King's Maudsley Partnership is that all Children and Young People enter adulthood with robust mental health. The Partnership is all about clinicians and researchers working more closely together to find new ways to predict, prevent and treat mental health disorders for children and young people and maximise translation of research and evidence into improved services, locally but also nationally and globally.

This unique partnership, between the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London and supported by the Maudsley Charity is preparing to move into the Pear's Maudsley Centre where clinical and academic teams will be co-located and where we will have access to a brand new Clinical Research Facility. This facility is dedicated to finding the answers to critical questions about the causes of and treatments for youth mental health problems, and the only one of its kind in Europe.

The Programme Lead is responsible for planning, leading and delivering a programme of work to maximise synergies to deliver benefits for children and young people. The post holder has a complex leadership and influencing role, in linking across the two partners, and into wider stakeholders including funders, commissioners and delivery partners.

Main duties of the job

• Successfully direct and manage a programme to enable clinical / academic collaboration and derive and manage intended benefits for children and young people.
• Deliver an integrated model of clinical and academic collaboration within the new Pears Maudsley centre and beyond into borough based CAMHS services, accelerating innovative clinical research, from discovery through early translation to community translation.
• Identify and support delivery of opportunities to translate research and evidence into service improvements and transformation in support for CYP; with a particular focus on the following benefits:
• Improving access to early intervention via mental health support in schools
• Expanding access to care/treatment via increasing productivity and efficiency
• Addressing inequalities in access, experience and outcomes of care.
• Through the promotion of a 'research active' culture, deliver improved patient care, experience, quality, productivity, efficiencies and releasing savings across the Trust and across the local health economy.
• Lead in the monitoring and addressing inequalities in participation in clinical research for CYP.
• Engage and manage robust relationships and communications with key internal and external stakeholders and strategic partners.
• Deliver robust business cases where required to secure approval and the necessary investment and grant funding for programme delivery.

About us

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.

The Trust employs around 5000 staff and serves a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, we provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

This job description will be subject to regular review and adjustment.

Job responsibilities

Strategy Development and Leadership/Management:

• Lead on delivering the Kings Maudsley Partnership Roadmap in collaboration with the Director and Clinical Director, including development of projects and policies, working with clinical, operational and research colleagues on their implementation.
• Lead and engage with all teams across the University and the Trust to embed clinical and academic collaboration such that it delivers a set of specified benefits for patients and populations.
• Lead engagement with internal and external partners to encourage contribution and sustain commitment to the Partnership and the Centre, including on key initiatives, and other decision-making and direction-setting activities.
• Support and facilitate clinical and academic teams throughout the change process, advising, negotiating and enabling their drive and focus to achieve the benefits set out within the programmes agreed Roadmap.
• Lead on senior conversations about the delivery of research for all models in the new centre, embedding research as a standard part of our offer to children, young people and families. This will involve developing and recommending new ways of working.
• Work with the senior leadership team, fundraising team and other stakeholders to develop funding proposals for activities central to the mission of KMP-CYP.
• Define appropriate milestones for programme delivery and ensure that there are plans and processes in place to deliver the agreed strategic goals via quarterly milestones and incorporate both clinical, academic and corporate dependencies.
• Support the clinical and academic teams to successfully deliver milestones and benefits defined within business cases, and the KMP Roadmap/programme plan.
• Collaboratively develop existing programme management activities for the Partnership, including ongoing development of our balanced scorecard to demonstrate benefits of Partnership working for CYP mental health. Assess impacts and develop mitigations for delivery risks and issues feeding these into wider business processes in the Trust and University.

Communication, Engagement and People Management:

• Actively lead and promote the Partnership's strategic objectives and delivery priorities across the University and the Trust to gain commitment and engagement of others in the vision.
• Lead strategic engagement with external partners and stakeholders, which may include imparting contentious information.
• Act as a champion for patients and the local population and their interests and involve the public and patients in the development and delivery of the Partnership, including setting up mechanisms for lived experience (children and young people as well as parents and carers) and youth involvement and engagement within our activities and our governance.
• Work closely with the KMP Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager to deliver the wider communication strategy for the Partnership.
• Act as an ambassador for the Partnership and its aspirations and objectives externally, obtaining influence over policy direction and high-level decision-making in the context of a fast-paced and ever-changing complex environment.
• Build on and further develop collaborative relationships with key partners in the larger health economy to ensure service designs are meeting the needs of the groups they are designed to serve.
• Ensure that all learning is spread and shared locally across wider KHP programmes, as well as nationally and internationally.
• Manage the programme team (including KMP Programme management and engagement officer) and matrix management of the KMP Senior Communications & Stakeholder Engagement Manager.
• Budget holder and authorised signatory for the Programme budget with accountability for effective management of budgets and appropriate devolution of resources. Procure and contract services as appropriate ensuring correct procedures are adhered to and monitoring is in place.

Drive the Programme to secure benefits identified in the KMP Roadmap. This will include identifying and tracking financial benefits (e.g., via income generation or cash and non-cash releasing efficiencies) and early identification and management of unintended benefits and dis-benefits.

Develop sustainable business plans for core activities of KMP-CYP, particularly its Clinical Research Facility and Digital Lab.

• Promote organisational efficiency, demonstrate cost-effectiveness and embed a culture of value for money and return on investment through the Partnership.

Comply with Standing Financial Instructions and ensure grant reporting in place for funding partners.

Other:

Contribute to the Strategy & Transformation Senior Management Team in all aspects including objective setting, annual reports, development of long-term strategy, providing assurance to internal/external stakeholders and producing reports as and when required.

As a senior leader, the Programme Lead will be required to deal with complex, difficult and occasionally contentious and conflicting matters; the post holder will be expected to have personal resilience and help colleagues to address and resolve difficulties with positivity.

Ensure the development of an open learning culture that stimulates innovation in the delivery of patient care and empowers front line staff.

Maintain own continuous professional development, and actively participate in appraisals and supervision.

Undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.

Travel between Trust sites and community partners in Lewisham will be required to support delivery, and occasional travel to other sites across the UK to learn from best practice.

This describes only the principal duties and responsibilities of the post holder. There are many other responsibilities implicit in these tasks, including the need to be mobile and work flexibly.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree and masters level qualification or equivalent knowledge or experience in health or research management/business systems.
• Considerable senior management experience in a complex environment, experience delivering in a large and complex organisation and across Partnerships.

Experience

• Demonstrable success in managing change and performance and working on major change projects, leading teams and individuals and establishing clear work priorities with them.
• A proven track record of budget management.
• Experience resolving competing priorities working across a Partnership.
• Experience of developing strategic plans and business cases which have been shown to deliver.
• Experience leading collaboratively across clinical/academic teams.
• Significant experience in the analysis, utilization and presentation of complex information, in order to secure service change.
• Experience leading programmes of clinical/academic collaboration.
• Experience delivering change in CYP mental health services or research landscape.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to interrogate data and identify and work with outputs.
• Evidence of excellent management & leadership skills, with ability to think and work strategically.
• Knowledge of higher education, research and innovation sector.
• Knowledge of NHS and CYP mental health services landscape.
• Understanding of the issues affecting the Trust and partner organisations and the ability to build strong, effective and collaborative working relationships with success in working across professions and services.
• Ability to advocate for and embed a focus on equality, diversity and inclusion of lived experience/youth voice in all service development and innovation.
• Excellent communication skills, including interpersonal skills, influencing and negotiation skills, writing and presentation skills.

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Programme Director, King's Maudsley Partnership

£96,340 to £109,849 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours