Job Description

Please note:

Applicants must have relevant experience in mental health.



This role is for a Deputy Chief Operating Officer working directly to the COO , providing senior operational and strategic leadership ensuring the effective provision of health and care services across the organisation . The role will lead and be accountable for the delivery of operational clinical services in geographical areas. The post holder will be accountable for the coordination and delivery of high quality and safe clinical mental health services, working in partnership with Medical Directors, professional leads and wider partners for health and care delivery. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring flexibility in capacity to meet demand and deliver both the local quality and safety agenda and all service targets. The role will lead in driving key opportunities across the trust to support integrated working across services as well as across mental health and specialist services, to ensure they deliver key improvements for our patients and carers. It will ensure the effective implementation of pathways, supporting the emergence of Integrated neighbourhood working and ongoing work South London Partnership . This role will need to represent services in relevant forums, in particular be responsible as the Trust's representative in the place -based partnerships and integrated carebased partnerships and care pathways, feeding into system level delivery for SE London footprint.



Management and Leadership



Deliver the requirements of the role across pathways for mental health across community and inpatient settings



Lead and enable staff to deliver high quality services that demonstrate the trust values.



To ensure the seamless provision of high-quality integrated health and social care to service users and their carers



Operational Management



To manage the operational performance of services, ensuring high quality, compassionate, patient- centred care.



Communication



C ommunicates at the highest level within the Trust and across other external organisations and agencies, with respect to highly sensitive and highly contentious information, including long term strategy, resources and finance, hospital closures, redeployment of staff, service-related information, changes in models of service delivery and governance.



Workforce



To manage and supervise direct management reports as identified for several services.



To develop cohesive, motivated high performing teams ensuring the e ffective leadership of staff.



Promote a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for the service they provide.



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We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated therefore have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our amazing benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and annual leave. Work life balance and supportive of a range of flexible working options Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services Wellbeing events Long service awards Cycle to work scheme Season ticket loan Staff restaurants

The post holder will be expected to demonstrate a personal commitment to fairness and will focus on ensuring fairness in all that we do.



This is not limited to but includes service delivery and people management, ensuring that process, resource allocation and availability of opportunity o per ate in a transparent, consistent and non-discriminatory way. The post holder is expected to provide visible leadership and promote high standards by modelling the values and behaviours expected of a senior manager in the NHS.



The post holder needs to work as a dynamic, innovative leader using a positive, strong influencing style to ensure services are run effectively and to budget, ensuring that the Trust work in a positive and collaborative manner. Key responsibilities will require strong relationship management with a range of stakeholders including all local carer and user groups. The role will support the executive team, Non-Executive Directors and wider system leadership to achieve the Trust strategy, vision and objectives



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