Job overview

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.  (Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth). Oxleas is the lead provider for the Adult Secure Provider Collaborative within which the Liaison and Diversion and Men’s MHTR services sit, services to patients are delivered by all 3 Trusts. Services will be provided within all London Police Custody suites, Magistrates’ and Crown Courts within the above Boroughs and in some Community settings

North London Provider collaborative has the contract to deliver Liaison and Diversion and Men’s MHTR within the North London Boroughs and is similarly a partnership of 5 NHS Trusts, a key feature of this role is building relationships and integrated working for a one London approach to L&D and MHTR services. This will include sharing best practice, learning from each other’s experiences and jointly addressing challenges related to service delivery and external partnerships.
Oxleas on behalf of the SLP hold a further contract with Waythrough our chosen Community Partner to deliver who will deliver the Community Link Workers and Peer Mentor Services as part of the L&D and MHTR service for men.

The L&D service is designed to intervene at the earliest opportunity when an individual comes into contact with the CJS. Typically, this begins at the point of police contact, where individuals are identified for potential vulnerabilities. The model follows four distinct and interrelated phases:

•       case identification
•       screening
•       assessment
•       onward referral

The Primary Men’s MHTR service operates within a clinically focused framework, which offers an alternative to a custodial sentence. This service is structured into nine distinct and interrelated phases:

•       identification
•       eligibility check and screening
•       practitioner assessment
•       consent process
•       clinical lead approval
•       sentencing
•       post sentence case management
•       intervention and joint case management
•       intervention completion

Overview of the Post

To support the Business Management Team and Directorate Management Team in delivering the Directorate’s core business. The post holder will make use of management information to strengthen business planning and ensure delivery of strategic and service priorities.

The role includes monitoring and reporting on Trust-wide and local performance indicators, and working closely with Informatics, BI and Clinical colleagues. The post holder will lead workstreams to improve data quality and ensure accuracy in reporting.

Main duties of the job

To provide support in the co-ordination of the business planning process:

Assist the Directorate Business Management Team during the annual planning round and in the production of the Local Delivery Plan (LDP). Including

Responsibility for collating updates of the Directorate Annual Plan with  the Directorate Senior Management Team;

Ensuring that the Directorate risk register remains up to date;

Reporting of complex service activity to inform the business planning process.

Provide support to the Directorate Business Management Team in the production of local business plans in line with the Directorate’s service priorities.

To draft agendas, collate papers and take minutes of project and service development meetings and follow up action as required.

To support the Directorate Business Management Team in the development of complex project plans for service developments.

To co-ordinate and provide financial management support to the senior management team:

To facilitate the delivery of financial information to support the management of the budget and business planning process of the Directorate. Including:

Regular reporting key performance indicators.

Working for our organisation

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