Children, Young People and Maternity Programme Manager

Job summary

Maternity Leave cover - Fixed term contract or secondment until 3-Mar-2025

The Integrated Commissioning Team in Bexley works across SEL ICB and London Borough of Bexley to maximise outcomes for some of our most vulnerable residents. The Children & Young People Programme Manager is a key leadership role in the team working closely with children's social care and education as well as commissioners of services for adults.

Due to maternity leave a great opportunity has arisen for an experienced commissioner to join the Integrated Commissioning Team in Bexley to lead on Children & Young People and Maternity Services. Working closely with the Children's Services colleagues in LBB and Oxleas NHS FT and the Director of Public Health, you will lead on developing further integrated approaches to children's services, including voluntary and preventative services and maternity services across three acute sites. This is a unique opportunity to help shape and develop new partnerships as the Integrated Care System develops in Bexley and to respond to the changing needs of our children and young people, as well help shape services at scale as part of the SEL transformation programme. The role starts from the last week of March 2024 or as soon as possible afterwards

Provisional interview date : 12 March 2024

For an informal discussion please contact Alison Rogers Assistant Director for Integrated Commissioning on 07793 818343 alison.rogers@selondonics.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have a key leadership role in children and young people and maternity services in Bexley, working with health providers, the voluntary sector, children's social care and education to ensure the best possible outcomes for Bexley children and young people.

The postholder will have overall responsibility for the commissioning of Children and Young Peoples services for the ICS in Bexley. This will include children and young people's physical and mental health services (specialist children's services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, tertiary audiology, end of life care), maternity, and peri-natal mental health, working within the budget and resources delegated to Place.

The post holder will work in close partnership with Public Health, South East London CYP commissioners, London Borough of Bexley Education and Children's Social Care, schools, NHS England, primary care and clinical networks to ensure a joined up approach to commissioning across universal and specialist physical and mental health services. Working to hear the voices of children and young people, and users of maternity services will be a key part of the role.

About us

The South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

Our partnership brings together six local authorities, over 200 general practices, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS FT, King's College Hospital NHS FT, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South London and the Maudsley Mental Health FT and Oxleas FT. Importantly, the ICS seeks to be connected to the communities we serve (circa 1.92m residents) and work with the widest possible range of community, voluntary and third sector groups and organisations in each borough.

Our vision is a highly performing, sustainable ICS that looks after its staff, responds to its communities and takes action to reduce the inequalities they experience. As a relatively new organisation our Integrated Care Board (ICB) we have established the organisation, details upon which can be found at www.selondonics.org/icb