NELFT and the London Borough of Havering operate a successful partnership for the delivery of Community, Mental Health, and Care Services. The Integrated Care Director, working with a local team of senior clinicians, lived experience leads and corporate colleagues, leads the delivery of safe, high quality and productive services. Both NELFT and the Council are highly focused on the delivery of the best health and care services for the people of Havering. The successful applicant will have a key role in leading the further development of integrated services in the Borough, including with other system partners through the local Place Based Partnership.

A key priority for the directorate is ensuring our service delivery and human resources management is underpinned by equality, diversity and inclusion and the Integrated Care Director will play a key leadership role. The Trust launched its Anti Racism Strategy last year and the Integrated Care Director, with the local leadership team, will lead on its implementation across the directorate.

The directorate leads on the Regional Limb Centre that is an NHSE commissioned centre of excellence for those in need of rehabilitation, prosthetics, orthotics and environmental adaptations.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced and innovative senior manager with extensive experience of working in an organisation with responsibility for the provision of mental health. You will live our values and be authentic, collaborative, emotionally intelligent and have a passion for social justice, improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities. You will have experience of working with our service users, those with lived experience and clinicians to develop a shared vision of services and standards of service delivery and a track record that demonstrates major achievement through innovation and strong, sensitive leadership.

Working with the Havering Place Based Partnership, our Integrated Care Director will relentlessly focus on the needs of the local community. The post holder will establish and maintain close working relationships with external partners to ensure the smooth delivery of services. The Integrated Care Director will ensure that services are delivered and improved through close working with clinical leadership, use of Quality Improvement methodology and co-production with service users, carers and staff. They will work closely with partners in collaboratives across North East London to deliver improvements in service quality and delivery, and associated health improvements for local populations.

About us

Starting with NELFTNELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area SupplementThis post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735 p.a. pro rata for part time).

On-call AllowanceThis post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts a payment of 0.75% of the basic salary.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We deliver our services with pride in an area with significant social and economic deprivation, and we work hard to address those factors that have historically adversely impacted those we serve. To achieve this goal, we need to recruit and retain the Best People the Integrated Care Director will need to continuously strive to improve the wellbeing of our staff, and create an environment where people want to work, feel valued, included, and empowered.

The person appointed will be able to demonstrate a strong knowledge and understanding of both health and care services and will be able to demonstrate a track record of appropriate service delivery at a senior level. A commitment to coproduction and valuing the voices of people with lived experience is essential to this role.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional knowledge (Clinical or social work) acquired through degree, supplemented by Specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level, management experience or equivalent experience with operational and strategic knowledge of these areas.

Knowledge

Essential

• Comprehensive knowledge of health and social care policy and Mental Health Legislation.

Experience

Essential

• A minimum of three years' senior operational management experience of Mental Health and or Community Health.
• Track record of significant achievement in directing and managing the delivery and improvement of services within an organisation of comparable size, scale and complexity
• Extensive experience, expertise and understanding of performance and change management, business planning, budget setting & management and commissioning processes

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Church Road

Havering

RM3 0SH

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