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Here at Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS FT we have a reputation for being innovative and forward thinking. We actively seek out new ways to work flexibly with partners and are passionate about people. We are one of the leading providers of specialist mental health, drug and alcohol and learning disability services for people of all ages in southern England, working in partnership to offer integrated health and social care, with 2300 excellent staff and a £155m budget.

We offer best employment practice and environments for staff in terms of equal opportunities, managing and developing a diverse workforce.

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Ref: 325-6512460-CYPS Vacancy ID: 6512460

Partnership Operations Director, Mindworks

Closed for applications on: 5-Sept-2024 00:01

Closed

Closed for applications on: 5-Sept-2024 00:01

Location

Leatherhead Hub
18 Mole Business Park
Leatherhead
KT22 7AD
Surrey

Contract type & working pattern

Permanent
Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

£101,902 - £116,960 including 5% fringe HCAS
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 9)

Specialty

Children and Young Peoples Services

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust  to work for.  This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

Mindworks is the children and young people’s Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service in Surrey. Established in 2021, our services are delivered through an innovative alliance of providers, each bringing unique expertise and working closely with health and local authority commissioners. Our vision is to deliver transformed services, using the THRIVE based model to ensure improved outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS FT (SABP) hosts the £26m pa Mindworks service, as well as being a prime delivery partner. As Partnerships Operations Director, you will be joining the Trust at a critical time with this role playing a pivotal role in the transformation work, fostering a strong culture of collaboration whilst holding partners to account and delivering financial sustainability. You will be employed by SABP and be accountable to the Mindworks Alliance Board and SABP’s internal governance structures.

To succeed, you will need experience as a senior manager leading the delivery of complex health and/or social care services, preferably within a children’s mental health setting. You should have strong experience of partnership working and driving performance. You will bring a commitment to our THRIVE model, placing children, young people and their families at the centre of everything we do. A clinical or professional qualification in health or social care would be advantageous. 

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Your role will be to inspire, lead, harness, develop, manage the risks, hold to account, and embed the transformation programme in a way that optimises the different Alliance partners’ expertise and leads to financial sustainability and improved outcomes for children, young people and their families. 

The role will involve working at pace with partners and alongside our transformation team to achieve our ambitious transformation programme which includes projects focusing on improving access and flow, schools, neurodevelopmental needs and the clinical model.

This represents an excellent opportunity to lead the transformation of an innovative alliance of talented partners to achieve financial sustainability and improved outcomes for children and young people.  

This role is based at our Hub in Leatherhead, Surrey.

 

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is one of the leading providers of mental health, learning disability and drug & alcohol services for people of all ages in Southern England. We deliver high quality care across our 140 services, employing more than 3,000 staff across 39 sites, serving a population of 1.3 million, with an income of over £350m. We have been recognised as ‘Good’ by CQC and have a strong reputation for innovation and partnership working.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Our recruitment partner for this post is James Stephens, Director, at Morgan Law.  For a recruitment pack with further information please visit Partnership Operations Director - Mindworks | Morgan Law (morgan-law.com)

In applying for this role, you are giving your permission for your application to be shared with Morgan Law.  

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree level qualification
  • Post Graduate senior leadership management qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience
  • Relevant and substantial experience operating in a senior leadership position
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical / professional qualification in health/social care is desirable preferably in mental health

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Considerable and recent experience as a senior manager in operationalising transformed complex health and/or social care services preferably in children’s mental health services ideally CAMHS
  • Substantial experience of working in a complex organisation at a senior level in the public/healthcare or commercial sectors
  • Substantial experience of leading partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver clinically safe and effective services which provide value for money
  • Substantial experience of leading and developing sustainable services, including evidence of managing demand and capacity planning and overseeing financial turnaround
  • Substantial experience of building and developing effective leadership teams in complex leadership structures
  • Substantial experience in supporting and operationalising large-scale transformation projects to a successful conclusion
  • Experience of building and developing highly effective teams including excellent people management skills
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of managing children and young people’s mental health services, preferably CAMHS, would be desirable

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
James Stephens
Job title
Morgan Law
Email address
[email protected]

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