Job overview
Please note these positions are advertised as an opportunity for either a Medical Grade (2 PAs) or an Agenda for Change Grade (Band 8B/8C WTE 0.2) to encompass the prospect of applications from differing professional backgrounds and has therefore been advertised in both Medical and AfC TRAC systems
We are seeking a dynamic, self-motivated and passionate person with experience of working in Adult Eating Disorder (AED) services and/or as a AED commissioner to lead our Adult Eating Disorder Data and Day Care Workstreams.
As it is essential for the postholders to have strong working relationships with key clinical and operational leaders within the SLP geography, candidates will need a current or recent knowledge of AED services in south London. You will bring together clinicians and service leads to develop partnership working and service change across services for adults with eating disorders with the most complex presentations. You will support the strategic and operational development of the workstream as well as consistent and accessible service pathways ensuring that these support and maintain achievement of excellent clinical and quality outcomes for adults in South London. You will report to the SLP Clinical Director as well as working with other Workstream Leads on overlapping objectives and to ensure that work across the programme is aligned.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team supporting the continued development of partnership working and service change across AED services in South London. They will support the strategic and operational development as well as consistent and accessible AED services pathways ensuring that these support and maintain achievement of excellent clinical and quality outcomes for service users and their families in South London. The post holder will report to the SLP Clinical Director as well as working with other Workstream Leads on overlapping objectives and to ensure that work across the programme is aligned. In addition, the post holder may be required to work with other London and/or national organisations on specific service developments. The role offers an interesting opportunity to develop approaches and skills of working in both a provider and commissioner role.
The post would suit someone who has extensive experience of working in AED services and the enthusiasm and passion to bring together clinicians and service leads to develop and maintain high quality and accessible services for service users and their families. You will be an excellent communicator and able to build effective internal and external networks to ensure that pathways are efficient and consistent with the SLP aims. This role will suit an individual who has the drive and enthusiasm to support change and developing new frameworks for partnership working in a complex, dynamic environment.
Working for our organisation
The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP):
The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) is a collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, (Oxleas) South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, (SLaM), and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) between them delivering mental health services to a population of more than three million people. The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and deliver best practice consistently to all patients. Since its inception, the SLP has been a resilient and effective partnership that has improved patient experience, introduced innovation, and developed new services across the 12 boroughs of south London.
Adult Eating Disorders Programme
The SLP Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative has developed a programme plan to improve the AED mental health pathway for south London patients. The transformation programme will be driven by clinicians and Experts by Experience, allowing a focused and united approach to address challenges.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key aspects of the roles which will include but are not limited to:-
Bringing together a core group of professionals from the services included in the pathways for regular meetings and to lead these meetings.
Supporting the continued development of partnership working that promotes multi-disciplinary engagement in the transformation of clinical services.
Develop and maintain credibility with all key stakeholders within the partnership community, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of equitable, high quality care. At times this will include acting as an ‘honest broker’ reconciling conflicting views and interests.
Providing senior Workstream Leadership.
Fostering a culture of multi-professional engagement in the improvement of care across integrated pathways for the AED partnership. This will include collaborating and engaging with clinical colleagues to develop and deliver ambitious programmes of quality improvement across the partnership.
Fostering and promoting a culture of clinical engagement and influence ensuring the partnership initiatives and services are clinically led. This includes developing links with AED services that sit outside the Provider Collaborative remit but are critical to developing effective pathways and way of working across services.
Opportunity to work with the Clinical Director to provide commissioning leadership and decision-making, facilitating partnership discussions and brokering agreement where necessary (such as in the Single Point of Referral process).
Developing a framework for the workstream that supports the improvements outlined within strategic priorities.
Working with colleagues to support the development of consistent service and clinical outcomes and share learning.
Supporting the identification of key issues, successes, risks or problems.
Identifying gaps in services.
Identifying and developing innovations (shared from individual team’s initiatives or developed across South London) to improve services, NICE compliance etc. This may sometimes entail championing new initiatives or pilots to build an evidence base for new approaches that can help achieve the aims of accessible care, close to home and in the least restrictive setting.
Promoting the systematic application of quality frameworks and using evidence base and analytics to inform quality improvements.
Ensuring that workstream activities under the Leads purview are conducted in compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the partnership.
Promoting opportunities for shared training and staff development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse or other registered social care Qualification or Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical psychology (or equivalent) or A nationally recognised Psychotherapy training (UKCP –PP section or BPC)
Live registration or
Evidence of specialist training
Proven ability in teaching and formal training in professional/clinical supervision
Professional management qualification or equivalent level of substantial experience/training in leading services and successfully managing or contributing to major change programmes
Leadership training and experience of leading services and complex development programmes
Experience
Essential criteria
Senior Clinical or Operational experience working in AED services
Leading or supporting service development initiatives
Desirable criteria
Service design and implementation
Knowledge
Essential criteria
Understanding of working with a range of stakeholders in coordinating support for AED services
Understanding of clinical pathways in AED, particularly within South London
Understanding of delivering clinical outcomes
Understanding of key performance indicators and their relationship to service delivery and quality
Understanding of the role service users and their families/carers in development and running of services.
Desirable criteria
Understanding of the role of and approaches to commissioning services
Understanding and experience of utilising service and quality improvement methodology
Understanding of multiagency working, LAC and LDA.
Skills
Essential criteria
Ability to lead and deliver change programmes/service improvement
Able to use mandated and personal authority in role
Ability to facilitate and influence
Ability to maintain a focus on and drive quality improvements
Ability to facilitate constructive challenge within and across organisations
Desirable criteria
Ability to hold services to account
Ability to use data to maintain / improve quality
Ability to work and communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues in different organizational tiers
Leadership skills including the ability to energise, shape and direct teams.
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