Head of Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships

CNWL; London; On-site; GBP 82,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a compassionate and capable senior lead to drive transformation and partnerships in mental health services. This role is pivotal in delivering high-quality care and supporting staff development within a diverse and inclusive environment. You will oversee a transformational portfolio, manage senior teams, and work collaboratively with various stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of programs that enhance patient care. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health and have the leadership skills to inspire change, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Career Development Opportunities

Diverse Work Environment

Supportive Team Culture

Health and Wellbeing Programs

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience required, with a Master's preferred.
• Experience in project management and NHS environments is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation and strategy initiatives across the organization.
• Manage relationships and oversee delivery of mental health programs.

Skills

Project Management

Strategic Development

Communication Skills

Data Analytics

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Education

Degree or equivalent relevant experience

Masters or Post Graduate degree in management

Tools

Management Consultancy Techniques

Excel

Job description

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We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Head of Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Main area: Administration and management
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 333-J-M-0210

Site: The Gordon Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £82,462 - £93,773 Per annum inc HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

We are looking for a values-led, compassionate and capable senior lead, with a demonstrable commitment to improving and supporting mental health, learning disabilities and autism, offering best patient care and enabling staff as well as the ability to deliver high quality, robust programmes, drive delivery and manage relationships at all organisational levels.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

This post is a senior lead position in the Jameson Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships team, working across the Jameson Division within Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) which provides adult mental health and learning disability services across NWL boroughs. It will work across the full transformation agenda, and take a specific leadership focus on ensuring delivery and implementation for divisional programmes, continuously working to embed and sustain developments and system change. The postholder will also hold key system relationships across the ICB.

The postholder will oversee and enable the delivery of the team’s transformational portfolio. This involves direct management of two senior transformation and delivery managers who are covering all transformation deliverables for adults and older adults, and for people with learning disabilities and autism. This includes working across internal and external partners as necessary and delivery and development, planning & meaningful co-production.

The postholder needs to be dedicated to partnership working and appreciate the value community partnerships, including with VCSE, can bring to statutory health and care services.

Working for our organisation

Our Vision

Wellbeing for life: We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual’s quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support.

Our Values

• Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
• Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
• Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
• Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Act as a senior team lead for transformation and strategy, working closely with, and at times deputising for, the Associate Director of Strategy, System Transformation and Partnerships.

· Oversight and responsibility of the delivery of adult mental health, learning disabilities and autism transformation, as well as any additional Divisional deliverables identified.

· Acting as a key system partner and working closely with other organisations within the ICB.

· Project lead complex programmes with full project management methodology.

· Provide focus and support to embedding and sustaining changes from transformation & service development, enabling long term system change. This includes tracking progress and well as forward planning future delivery phases and setting the ground work for success.

· Working with the divisional team, support the prioritisation and delivery timelines.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Masters or Post Graduate degree in management or equivalent years of demonstrable experience in a relevant programme management role.
• Training in use of management consultancy techniques/strategic development tools e.g. D-5 methodology.

Experience

• Relevant experience of working in a project environment.
• Relevant NHS experience or similar environment working with senior leads.
• Experience of roles managing and motivating staff.
• Experience of delivering projects within clinical services.
• Experience leading and delivering high profile Mental Health Five Year Forward View/Long Term Plan objectives.
• Experience in development of funding proposals/bid leadership.
• Experience working closely with or in the voluntary sector/community social enterprise.

Skills

• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and present sensitive information to large groups.
• Experience and knowledge to plan over short term, medium and long term timeframes.
• Ability to identify and resolve delivery challenges, and design problem solving solutions.
• Ability to mentor, team build and prioritise.
• Ability to build a credible reputation amongst, senior management teams, clinical staff and peers.
• Ability to develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations, varying language and style as appropriate.
• Excellent excel, data analytics and basic modelling skills.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of programme and project management.
• Outstanding knowledge and understanding of the national requirements for mental health services.
• Knowledge of the emerging NHS landscape including Integrated Care Systems and Integrated Care Partnerships.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Mental Health Investment Standard, operational planning and budget management.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical services.

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Name: Sally Milne
Job title: AD of Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships
Email address: [e-mail]