Organisational Development and Sustainability Lead (Community CAMHS)

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS mental health provider is seeking an Organisational Development and Sustainability Lead for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role entails overseeing the sustainability strategy for Community CAMHS and requires strong leadership in transformation initiatives. Ideal candidates should possess extensive experience in change management and operational leadership within health services. The position offers a competitive salary between £85,431 and £97,148, aligning with NHS standards, and focuses on enhancing mental health service delivery through effective stakeholder engagement and innovative practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational leadership in a CAMHS environment.
• Comprehensive transformation and change leadership experience in a large complex organization.
• Experience of senior staff performance management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the delivery of the sustainability strategy across CAMHS.
• Lead the development and implementation of the transformation programme.
• Monitor and evaluate innovative ways of working that improve practices.

Skills

Problem-solving

Leadership

Change management

Education

Masters or equivalent level of knowledge and experience

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Organisational Development and Sustainability Lead (Community CAMHS)

The closing date is 04 February 2026

At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, we believe in providing excellent care which is delivered with pride and compassion. Everything we do is to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.

The Organisational Development and Sustainability Lead oversees the Directorate's Sustainability programme in Community CAMHS, aligning with strategic priorities set by leadership. The role is responsible for strengthening local leadership, fostering a culture of change, and ensuring effective delivery and evaluation of the Sustainability Strategy. This requires strong problem-solving, planning, and influencing skills within a complex, multi-organisation environment.

The role requires someone who brings experience and credibility in organisational development and change programme delivery, and who possesses a natural ability to engage a wide range of staff members and stakeholders in the improvement agenda. In addition, to enable the programme, the post holder will be operationally responsible for the delivery of Community CAMHS services and line manage the Borough Clinical Service/General Managers.

Overview

The information above describes the role and purpose of the Organisational Development and Sustainability Lead within Community CAMHS, including responsibilities to deliver sustainability and transformation aligned to the Trust's priorities.

Main duties of the job

Key Result areas:

• Working with the Directorate Leadership team and Senior Leaders to shape the vision for change and use the associated frameworks, policies and processes.
• Definition, development and implementation of the strategy deployment as well as day to day delivery of the operations in services.
• Senior lead for a major change project where the complexity and/or cross organisational impact requires senior and experienced leadership to ensure delivery.
• Providing best practice change management, strategic portfolio management, and transformation subject matter expertise to enable the continued implementation of the ambitious plan.
• Build the leadership capability of the portfolio, working with operational, clinical and QI colleagues as required.

Key Relationships

• Internal Stakeholders including (but not limited to): Executive management team, Non Executive Directors, Clinical Directors, Directorate Leadership Teams, Corporate teams, wider clinical and non-clinical staff
• External Stakeholders: Service Users & Carers, Alliance Partners (specifically in Lewisham), Regulators, Commissioners, NHS England, Local Authorities, Third Sector organisations, Health Education England, Trade Union / staff partnership organisations
• Networking and credible support arrangements with peers in the wider health and social care community

About us

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

The Trust employs around 6000 staff and serve a local population of 1.3 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

The Trust delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.

Job responsibilities

Delivery and Transformation

Accountable for the direct development and delivery of the sustainability strategy across CAMHS, ensuring alignment between strategy, transformation and improvement portfolios

Lead the development and implementation of the transformation programme, with relevant MDT input, supporting key strategic priorities

Develop an underpinning theory of change for organisational sustainability, based on a strategic analysis of current and future state using performance data

Lead agreed programmes where the complexity and/or cross organisational impact require senior and experienced leadership to ensure delivery, working alongside other Senior Leaders.

Use the appropriate governance, measurement systems and reporting across the programme.

Establish and maintain a strategy deployment and assurance framework to ensure its strategy is successfully implemented, reviewed and revised on an annual basis.

Work efficiently and collaboratively with all levels of the directorate to overcome barriers to acceptance of new ways of working.

With Clinical and Operational colleagues, contribute to the development of organisational models and management systems which enable strengthened ways of working between corporate teams and borough based operating units, including a centralised framework to balance consistency on minimum standards and localfreedoms.

Work with the Directorate to improve alignment between Trust wide transformation and local priorities.

Represent the Trusts at events as required, acting independently, decisively and effectively in sensitive, difficult or political situations

Establish and lead a network of organisational change agents with clear direction and support from the directorate leaders to enable best practice, enhance leadership capability and embed processes.

Constructively challenge ways of working and engage, motivate and influence other managers and clinicians to realign their practice where necessary, with a particular focus on future sustainability.

To manage and implement information resources to support the documentation, recording and management of schemes which are in line with a continuous learning culture.

Programme delivery and management

Match the strategic programme to the underpinning theory of change, and translate into a coherent and well planned implementation approach.

Oversee delivery of operations and change programmes, maintaining quality and working collaboratively with local leaders and other teams.

Monitor, analyse and evaluate innovative ways of working that improve existing and future working practices across the programmes

Pro-actively engage stakeholders including children, young people and their families in developing the change ideas and overseeing their implementation

Ensure detailed implementation and resources plans to support successful delivery of the programme plan for service users, staff and services.

Provide robust and detailed change management leadership to drive delivery of the programme.

Create strong plans for scaling, sustaining, and expanding

Lead consensus building and collaboration across areas relevant to programme delivery both internally in the wider trust and externally in place based boards and steering groups

Highlight issues and challenges, proactively problem-solve, negotiate and ultimately escalate where issues arise in the development and implementation of the programme.

Work effectively with clinical and operational leads in reporting the work of the programme

Communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information on the progress of the programme (and associated projects) to key stakeholders across the Trust and wider partners.

Maintain an objective position and continually review feedback, research and evaluation data to iteratively inform design and delivery

Partnership working and stakeholder management

Be a strong ambassador for the Trust across the full range of stakeholders and frontline clinicians and alliance partners.

Support consensus building strategies across partner organisations, and actively cut through blocks and differing opinions to deliver change.

Be intellectually flexible to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce effective and innovative partnerships between community and acute services.

Ensure relationship management strategies across the team are well designed and implemented and refreshed to reflect the rapidly changing environment.

Support the leadership structure to enact HR processes so to enable the best performance, productivity, clinical effectiveness and developing a welcoming and respectful culture within the teams and services.

Spend time with clinical and operational teams across the Trust to ensure up to date knowledge of front line reality and pressures feeds into approach to transformation.

Actively seek input from wider system leaders including provider collaboratives, public health, primary care, local government, voluntary and community sector, academia, other partners and local people to make real transformational differences for the local population.

Communicate transformation plans internally and externally enabling all stakeholders to understand them and how they can be part of shaping and delivering the outcomes and goals.

Ensure alignment with other relevant local programmes of work and policy initiatives.

Demonstrate a transformational leadership style and adopt a flexible approach to meet the competing demands of the role.

People and Financial Management

Management of the operational leaders in Community CAMHS services

Expert negotiation skills to ensure the programme delivers agreed outcomes and hold individuals to account.

Establish and monitor financial management processes to plan income, monitor budget expenditure, provide internal cost control and implement any required action/contingency plans to meet targets.

Manage the team budgets.

Responsible for allocating the resources according to the key priorities and identifying financial solutions where required. This may include development of business cases.

Mange new and existing outsourcing, managed service contract planning and management

Other Responsibilities

Travel between Trust sites and to partner sites will regularly be required to support the delivery of transformation initiatives.

Use judgement and personal resilience to deal with a wide variety of situations relating to service delivery, some of which will be challenging, difficult and potentially stressful.

To promote positive relationships between all staff involved in providing care and those providing support services and also on a culture of accessibility, open communication, mutual support and effective challenge.

Balance workload to meet changing demands of service and strategic priorities.

The Trust operates within a constantly changing environment and as such work priorities and targets may change. The Trust reserves the right to make reasonable changes to

the job purpose and accountabilities.

Carry out such other duties that occasionally arise, which fall within the purpose of the role and efficient operation of the Trusts transformation programmes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Education to Masters or equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of operational leadership in a CAMHS environment

Experience

• Comprehensive transformation and change leadership experience in a large complex organisation, which preferably should be in a health care or health service environment.
• Experience of senior staff performance management, including motivating, developing, and coaching to meet appropriate deadlines.
• Extensive experience of facilitating group discussions to plan and progress programmes and projects.
• Extensive experience in leading the upskilling and education and development of large numbers of staff in relation to transformation and operational delivery.

Knowledge

• Problem solving skills, which triangulate across sources of data (quantitative and qualitative) and reflect organisational and system dynamics
• Is skilled in motivating senior managers and clinicians to enable delivery of programme priorities.
• Has a "can do" attitude, inspires and develops others, demonstrates the need to involve stakeholders in decisions and have a collaborative approach. Knows the importance of effective team work and creates an environment that is receptive to change.
• Knowledge of research and higher education.

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

£85,431 to £97,148 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

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