Job summary
The Southeast London Integrated Care System (ICS) is a partnership that brings together local health and care organisations and local councils across the London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bromley, and Bexley to improve care for the two million people who call our system home.
The ICS will be responsible for:
- Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare
- Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
- Enhancing productivity and value for money across its system and
- Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development
We will do this by developing stronger partnerships between the NHS, local government, and other key partners and through strategic commissioning with a focus on population health outcomes.
This role is an exciting opportunity to work in partnership with NHS providers, Voluntary Sector Organisations and Adult Social Care to commission mental health services in the borough of Bexley.
Main duties of the job
In response to NHS Long Term Plan priorities and building on established local partnerships and place-based system transformation, our vision in Bexley (and across Southeast London) is to transform our model of mental health care and support.
Increasing levels of demand and complexity in our population, coupled with new funding flows for mental health mean we have an exciting opportunity to reimagine how we deliver care across all age groups and levels of need.
Priorities include:
- Bridging the gap across primary and secondary care
- No wrong door into services and frictionless movement between them
- Holistic approaches to assessing and meeting needs
- Integrated, multi-disciplinary teams providing clinical and non-clinical support
This role will be at the forefront of the development of the Integrated Care System in Bexley and will have a key role in shaping new ways of working with major mental health care providers. As such the role will have 'dotted line' accountability to the Director of Adult Mental Health and Learning Disabilities within Oxleas NHS FT. This reflects the emerging System Leadership function of Oxleas within the Local Care Partnership.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, 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
The post holder will work as part of the Integrated Care System in Bexley and in conjunction with the South East London central commissioning team, to develop robust, evidence based and co-produced commissioning plans for adults with mental health and wellbeing needs.
The post holder will take a strategic overview of services for this client group, ensuring the best use of local and ICS-wide resources to achieve optimum health and social care outcomes for Bexley residents and help prevent the cycle of dependency which can lead to hospital admission and reliance on institutional care.
The role involves strategic leadership and the development of personalised care pathways for people with mental health needs, ensuring a whole systems approach to the commissioning of community health and care services in line with Local Care Partnership plans and priorities.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- The commissioning cycle as it relates to this client group, ensuring that needs are assessed and analysed, commissioning plans are developed, services are procured (where appropriate and necessary) and performance and outcomes are monitored as part of agreed partnership arrangements. Co-design and co-production of care pathways and service specifications with service users and the voluntary sector will be essential
- Oversight of service transformation under the national Community Mental Health Service (CMHS) Transformation agenda, priorities include the development and realisation of South East London core offer ambitions within Bexley which is being delivered via the Mental Health Hub as well as transforming the rehabilitation pathway, including the development of innovative housing solutions to support people with mental health needs in the most appropriate setting.
- Supporting the continuing development of Local Care Networks, especially supporting North Bexley Locality, working closely with the Clinical and Care Lead for Mental Health and Senior Leads within Bexley Care and Primary Care Networks.
- Leading on the development of appropriate capacity within the market for these service users and ongoing management of the care and support market to deliver more affordable personalised care across a range of settings. This will include developing and monitoring of quality indicators and helping to ensure best practice and safeguarding is embedded in all commissioned services.
- Working across organisational boundaries to ensure young people with complex transition needs have a high-quality seamless transition to adult services
Financial planning and effective budget management are essential as is the ability to function effectively within the corporate governance structures of both the NHS and the Local Authority.
The post holder will, within this context, lead, implement, review and manage commissioned contracts ensuring they are compliant with national legislation and local policy. This will be undertaken in line with the identified needs of Bexley residents and through the development and stimulation of collaborative commissioning and integrated services, including with the third sector wherever appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work as part of the Integrated Care System in Bexley and in conjunction with the South East London central commissioning team, to develop robust, evidence based and co-produced commissioning plans for adults with mental health and wellbeing needs.
The post holder will take a strategic overview of services for this client group, ensuring the best use of local and ICS-wide resources to achieve optimum health and social care outcomes for Bexley residents and help prevent the cycle of dependency which can lead to hospital admission and reliance on institutional care.
The role involves strategic leadership and the development of personalised care pathways for people with mental health needs, ensuring a whole systems approach to the commissioning of community health and care services in line with Local Care Partnership plans and priorities.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- The commissioning cycle as it relates to this client group, ensuring that needs are assessed and analysed, commissioning plans are developed, services are procured (where appropriate and necessary) and performance and outcomes are monitored as part of agreed partnership arrangements. Co-design and co-production of care pathways and service specifications with service users and the voluntary sector will be essential
- Oversight of service transformation under the national Community Mental Health Service (CMHS) Transformation agenda, priorities include the development and realisation of South East London core offer ambitions within Bexley which is being delivered via the Mental Health Hub as well as transforming the rehabilitation pathway, including the development of innovative housing solutions to support people with mental health needs in the most appropriate setting.
- Supporting the continuing development of Local Care Networks, especially supporting North Bexley Locality, working closely with the Clinical and Care Lead for Mental Health and Senior Leads within Bexley Care and Primary Care Networks.
- Leading on the development of appropriate capacity within the market for these service users and ongoing management of the care and support market to deliver more affordable personalised care across a range of settings. This will include developing and monitoring of quality indicators and helping to ensure best practice and safeguarding is embedded in all commissioned services.
- Working across organisational boundaries to ensure young people with complex transition needs have a high-quality seamless transition to adult services
Financial planning and effective budget management are essential as is the ability to function effectively within the corporate governance structures of both the NHS and the Local Authority.
The post holder will, within this context, lead, implement, review and manage commissioned contracts ensuring they are compliant with national legislation and local policy. This will be undertaken in line with the identified needs of Bexley residents and through the development and stimulation of collaborative commissioning and integrated services, including with the third sector wherever appropriate.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Transformation/Change Management
- Commissioning Cycle and applications
Qualifications
Essential
- Msc and/or Commissioning Qualification or extensive commissioning experience
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Working within Mental Health - Commissioning, Provider and/or LA
- Experience of working within complex and diverse systems
Desirable
- Experience of resource management (finance and people)
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Transformation/Change Management
- Commissioning Cycle and applications
Qualifications
Essential
- Msc and/or Commissioning Qualification or extensive commissioning experience
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Working within Mental Health - Commissioning, Provider and/or LA
- Experience of working within complex and diverse systems
Desirable
- Experience of resource management (finance and people)
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).
