Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week (0.2 wte)
- Job ref
- 277-7207821-CORP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHSE
- Town
- Dartford, Kent
- Salary
- £80,025 - £91,336 pro rata inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Programme Manager
Band 8c
Job overview
The post holder will work as part of the Cavendish Square Group and the NHS England London Mental Health team which sits under the Nursing and Quality Directorate.
This regional role will focus on identifying and mapping mental health clinical leadership capacity across mental health trusts in London with the Cavendish Square Group.
The aim of this role is to advance areas of mental health priority in London through enhanced mental health clinical leader involvement and engagement.
This will be achieved by the post holder by mapping the clinical leadership capacity, appetite, and engagement opportunities for those leaders. The post holder will be expected to produce a report of the Clinical Leadership Capacity in London aligned to the London Mental Health Strategy and its’ priorities.
This regional role will also support closer working of senior clinical leaders and groups in London, including (but not limited to) the NHS London Clinical Director and Deputy Clinical Director of Mental Health, the Cavendish Square Groups, and wider clinical networks.
The post holder must have good project management skills and be able to work with independence in a changing environment. The post holder would ideally have clinical experience, but this is not essential, and will be able to form, maintain, and manage relationships with senior clinical and operational mental health leaders.
Main duties of the job
Attached is comprehensive job description and person specification that provides details of the main duties of the job.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Make a significant contribution to the successful delivery of the ambitions in the London Mental Health Strategy, and play a leading role in the implementation of the regional strategy with the potential to significantly improve services and outcomes for patients.
- Be able to work to tight deadlines, be adaptable to changing/challenging situations and able to manage and prioritise their own work efficiently.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Engaging with key strategic regional and national policy makers at Executive level to inform development of strategy and policies overseeing performance
- Identifying clinical leadership opportunities for driving the strategy for mental health, leading, supporting and ensuring alignment across the system
- Developing a report of clinical leadership capacity in London, including a mapping of which clinical leaders may be best placed to advance the regional mental health priorities, and engagement opportunities for those leaders.
- Providing subject matter expertise to systems, partner organisations and NHSE teams for the mental health programme to support the planning and delivery of the transformation objectives as set out in the London Strategy for Mental Health.
- Driving reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence commissioning research where needed to develop best practice
- Identify examples of national and international best practice and to ensure that NHS England and NHS Improvement benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
- Establish and actively monitor key risks and issues, ensuring that effective mitigation plans are in place
Please read through the attached JD for further details about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Experience and expertise in the use of programme, project and change management techniques
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a clinical mental health role and subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to mental health
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities. Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Demonstrable ability to deliver at pace in complex environment and plans and organise a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public. Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation. Ensures staff for whom the post holder has line management responsibility uphold and promote the equality and diversity agenda, and act in accordance with the equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace policy.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Abimbola Fadipe
- Job title
- Chief Medical Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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