Job summary
Associate Director, Band 8d Permanent - Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced leader to join the Senior Management team for the Acute & Crisis Mental Health Directorate at Oxleas. The Associate Director has responsibility for the strategic and operational management of services, ensuring performance and financial targets are met, and that the care we deliver to the populations of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich is effective and excellent.
Candidates will be enthusiastic, creative and thorough, with a deep understanding of the importance of good governance and how to build and maintain effective systems and processes. They will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience of report writing and delivering information articulately and in a variety of ways.
Candidates will have experience of working in mental health care provision and be able to demonstrate a history of working closely with system partners, with patient and carer representatives, as well as with third sector agencies.
The Associate Director will be skilled in the management of projects and be an effective leader. Therefore candidates will be able to demonstrate their competence and experience in terms of leading and sustaining change. They will have a deep understanding of cultural and system issues and how to address these in order to create the best conditions for front line staff and patients.
Main duties of the job
- Responsibility for the strategic and operational management of Acute & Crisis MH Services, ensuring performance and financial targets are met.
- As a member of the Senior Management Team for the Directorate, contributing to the attainment of strategic goals and overall management of the directorate business
Scope of responsibility
The delivery of effective Acute and Crisis Mental Health Services to the populations of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.
The development and delivery of integrated pathways across Acute and Crisis Mental Health Services and the wider mental health system.
Provide representation for Oxleas Acute & Crisis Mental Health Services across the system locally and nationally.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Bring together Acute & Crisis Mental Health Services and teams across Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich:
- and create a quality-focused culture that fosters innovation and delivers consistently excellent care.
- Ensure the achievement of all required service objectives, targets and standards.
- Lead the development and completion of tenders for new and existing services including the development of new models of delivery of care
- Achieve financial targets ensuring the efficient and effective use of financial, staffing and physical resources.
- Contribute to the leadership of the senior management team ensuring a focus on what needs to be achieved and how this will be done.
- Provide inspirational and facilitative leadership to all staff across Acute & Crisis Mental Health Services
- Maintain effective partnerships with external stakeholders, including, Local Authority, GP groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups, acute care providers and the voluntary sector.
- Work closely with colleagues across the system in the development of Acute & Crisis Mental Health Services
- Promote a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for the service they provide and managers are supported to lead, motivate and develop staff that feel valued and respected.
- Ensure that all staff in the team are regularly appraised and have set objectives and a personal development plan.
- Ensure that all staff in their teams receives appropriate training and on-going development to enable them to fulfil their roles competently and safely
- Ensure effective systems, policies, and procedures to manage clinical and non-clinical risks and maintenance of an up-to-date risk register.
- Maintain and develop effective systems for learning from adverse incidents and complaints and embedding subsequent changes in practice and procedures.
- Ensure all Acute and Crisis Mental Health Services comply with statutory obligations and codes of practice.
- Ensure the optimal use of clinical and management information to inform the efficient use of resources and delivery of high-quality services.
- Ensure there are effective systems, practices and skills in place for the recruitment, deployment, supervision, career development, performance management and appraisal of all staff in Acute and Crisis Mental Health Services.
- Ensure excellent communication systems and necessary relationships are in place so staff are involved in decision making and informed of same.
- Ensure that there are effective systems in place to support the meaningful involvement of service users, parents and carers in service development and delivery.
- Participate in the senior manager on-call rota.
- Deputise for the Service Director as required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Bring together Acute & Crisis Mental Health Services and teams across Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich:
- and create a quality-focused culture that fosters innovation and delivers consistently excellent care.
- Ensure the achievement of all required service objectives, targets and standards.
- Lead the development and completion of tenders for new and existing services including the development of new models of delivery of care
- Achieve financial targets ensuring the efficient and effective use of financial, staffing and physical resources.
- Contribute to the leadership of the senior management team ensuring a focus on what needs to be achieved and how this will be done.
- Provide inspirational and facilitative leadership to all staff across Acute & Crisis Mental Health Services
- Maintain effective partnerships with external stakeholders, including, Local Authority, GP groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups, acute care providers and the voluntary sector.
- Work closely with colleagues across the system in the development of Acute & Crisis Mental Health Services
- Promote a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for the service they provide and managers are supported to lead, motivate and develop staff that feel valued and respected.
- Ensure that all staff in the team are regularly appraised and have set objectives and a personal development plan.
- Ensure that all staff in their teams receives appropriate training and on-going development to enable them to fulfil their roles competently and safely
- Ensure effective systems, policies, and procedures to manage clinical and non-clinical risks and maintenance of an up-to-date risk register.
- Maintain and develop effective systems for learning from adverse incidents and complaints and embedding subsequent changes in practice and procedures.
- Ensure all Acute and Crisis Mental Health Services comply with statutory obligations and codes of practice.
- Ensure the optimal use of clinical and management information to inform the efficient use of resources and delivery of high-quality services.
- Ensure there are effective systems, practices and skills in place for the recruitment, deployment, supervision, career development, performance management and appraisal of all staff in Acute and Crisis Mental Health Services.
- Ensure excellent communication systems and necessary relationships are in place so staff are involved in decision making and informed of same.
- Ensure that there are effective systems in place to support the meaningful involvement of service users, parents and carers in service development and delivery.
- Participate in the senior manager on-call rota.
- Deputise for the Service Director as required.
Person Specification
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Minimum of five years' experience at senior management level in a health or social care organisation.
- Leading transformational change across services, involving other statutory and third sector providers and supporting other providers, teams and individuals to achieve objectives.
- Leading on cultural change to embed new ways of working across a range of dispersed and diverse services and teams.
- An excellent understanding of effective systems of governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
- A self-starter with drive and vision who is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
Education /Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level with a relevant qualification at masters / doctorate level or equivalent experience.
Person Specification
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Minimum of five years' experience at senior management level in a health or social care organisation.
- Leading transformational change across services, involving other statutory and third sector providers and supporting other providers, teams and individuals to achieve objectives.
- Leading on cultural change to embed new ways of working across a range of dispersed and diverse services and teams.
- An excellent understanding of effective systems of governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
- A self-starter with drive and vision who is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
Education /Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level with a relevant qualification at masters / doctorate level or equivalent experience.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
