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Job summary

Main area
Operations Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (12 month Sept 25 - Sept 26 Placement)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
334-NCL-7220794
Employer
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/06/2025 23:59
Interview date
23/06/2025

Employer heading

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust logo

Operations Manager - Trainee Placement

NHS AfC: Band 6

 

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives  in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology  to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust. 

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

**Please note you must be approaching completion or have completed the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme in the past 6months to be able to apply to this post. Other candidates need not apply**

This is an exciting opportuity for people who are about to complete their final placement on the NHS Graduate Management Traininign Scheme and are looking for further development opportunity in operational management. 

The post will be based within the Chief Operating Officer's office and will work with operational directorates to ensure the sustainable delivery of high quality mental health care to the populations we serve - implementation a range of care development initiative led by the team. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Chief Operating Officer’s Department at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. This team seeks to continually ensure the operational delivery of high quality care for service user and carers, ensuring operational effectiveness and continued improvement. It is accountable for the operations across all six directorates.

The post holder will support the team with operational delivery of its key functions:

Operational delivery of operational improvement, effectiveness and sustainability projects

Care development, redesign, and efficiency work

Organisational development activities

Quality & KPI assurance procedures

 

Working for our organisation

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives  in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology  to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust. 

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main duties and responsibilities of the post holder will be to support:

  • Supporting implementation of operational projects, e.g. tracker, meetings
  • Monitoring for large delivery projects, risk management
  • Stakeholder engagement, including senior internal and external stakeholders from system partners to clinical and operational staff to service users and carers
  • Supporting continual development of operational delivery and the effective implementation of initiatives to improve effectiveness, efficiency and productivity in services
  • Co-production and engagement with service users, carers and communities
  • Monitoring and implementation of performance dashboards and KPIs
  • Implementing project management software and resource management tools
  • Organisational resource planning as part of care transformation
  • Supporting service development, and optimisation initiatives
  • Strategic and operational planning activities including the annual planning round
  • Review and support team development process and pathways
  • Research into mental health best practice and benchmarking to support service design and development
  • Review team policies, change management, performance management
  • Liaison with wider SLaM Corporate Functions, where appropriate
  • Implementing software and project management tools
  • Proposing policies or service changes, impact beyond own area, developing and implementing business policies which impact across multiple sites and services

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • About to complete/recent (6months) completion of Graduate Management Trainee Scheme
  • Educated to degree level
  • Experience working on iniatives within a large NHS Trust, developing knowledge and understanding
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in a mental health trust

Employer certification / accreditation badges

London Healthy workplaceCapital Nurse, LondonNo smoking policyLondon Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage FoundationImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Stonewall Silver 2022Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Armed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Christina Santana-Smith
Job title
Head of Operational Implementation
Email address
[email protected]
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