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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
About
We provide local NHS services in south London and Kent that take care of the whole person - body and mind.
We provide a wide range of health and social care services in south east London, specialising in community health, mental health and learning disability services. We provide care for people of all ages and work closely with a variety of partners to ensure that our services are well-integrated and wide-ranging. We have a workforce of around 3,500 people including many highly skilled health and social care professionals. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich and into Kent.
Our services include a range of physical health services to adults and children in the community in the boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich. These range from health visitors working with the very young to district nurses and therapists meeting the physical health needs of older people.
We have been the main provider of specialist mental health care in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich for more than ten years and have developed a comprehensive portfolio of services in community and hospital settings. We also provide specialist forensic mental health care across south east London. 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 also provide adult learning disability services in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Our values express our heart at Oxleas.
They are the lens we look through to guide our behaviours day-to-day, informing how we act, the decisions we make, and how we work with our service users, patients, families, carers, and colleagues.
Our values are:
We’re Kind: We show consideration, concern and thoughtfulness towards everyone.
We’re Fair: We embrace difference, treat everyone with respect and promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
We Listen: We always seek to understand, learn, and improve.
We Care: We work together and innovate to put our service users at the heart of everything we do.
Our values have been developed through discussions with our staff, patients, and local people about what our priorities should be to support us to achieve our mission of ‘Improving lives’.
They have also emerged through open and honest conversations about race inequality and difference and how we can continually create an environment that delivers excellent patient care and makes Oxleas a great place to work.
Director of Children & Young People's Services
Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Memorial Hospital
- Address
- Shooters Hill
- Town
- Woolwich
- Postcode
- SE18 3RG
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £111,120 - £127,006 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 9)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administrative and Clerical
- Interview date
- 20/12/2024
Job overview
Advert
We are committed to advocating for children and working in partnership to achieve the best we can for them and their families. The CYP Directorate also delivers sexual health services and community gynaecology. A central part of your role will involve working with our external partners in Education, Health and Social Care across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley and with our partners in the South London Mental Health Partnership (SLP). We also have strong partnership links with voluntary, community and social enterprise providers which are key to us delivering our services across the Boroughs.
The Directorate services are delivered from locations across the three boroughs and therefore strong leadership and strategic thinking are key to this role together with an ability to work flexibly across the demands of the different systems and the challenges each of them has.
As a member of the Trust Executive, you will play an important role in shaping the future for our patients and in continuing to make it one of the best places to work for our staff.
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 main responsibilities of this role are to be responsible for the strategic and operational performance of children and young people’s services and ensure that performance and financial targets are met. You will also be responsible for leading the Directorate Management Team, maintaining a collective leadership approach, identifying, and jointly achieving the Directorate priorities.
You will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of specific integrated care pathways across children’s services with education and social care colleagues with a focus on health inequalities.
The range of services provided by the directorate include:
CAMHS
CAMHS Borough Teams in Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley
Mental Health in Schools Teams - Greenwich and Bexley
Triborough Crisis and DBT Teams
Specialist Services - Greenwich and Bexley
Contraception, Sexual Health and Community Gynaecology
Community Paediatrics
Integrated Neurodisability Services
Children's Community Nursing
Therapies; Dietetics, Music Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy
Audiology
Children's Continuing Care
Young Greenwich School Nursing
LAC
Administrative Single Point of Access
As a member of the Executive Team, you will contribute to the attainment of the strategic goals and overall management of Trust business.
Can you help Oxleas continue to strive for equity for both its staff and those who use its services? Do you have the flexibility and openness of mind to work with colleagues in your services and in the Executive team to develop innovative approaches to improving patient health? Are you committed to improving outcomes for the diverse cultural and socioeconomic communities that we deliver services to? Can you be an advocate within the NHS and the wider clinical world for the innovations that you and our staff develop at Oxleas?
You will have led the delivery of health, education or social care within one or more complex organisations and have the vision and drive to bring about system-level change. Can you bring us, through your personal life experience or professional skills, insights that will enhance our ability to make a significant difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff and to the treatment of patients?
We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We welcome applications from all people, including those from a global majority background, those who live with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
This is a highly rewarding role for someone who is dedicated to delivering the best possible healthcare to children and their families.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.
- Leading transformational change across services, involving other statutory and third sector providers and supporting other providers, teams and individuals to achieve objectives.
Essential
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience. Minimum of five years’ experience at senior management level in a health or social care organisation.
Essential
Essential criteria
- Leading transformational change across services, involving other statutory and third sector providers and supporting other providers, teams and individuals to achieve objectives.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Iain Dimond
- Job title
- Chief Operating Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 625034
- Additional information
If you would like an informal conversation about the role with Iain Dimond, Chief Operating Officer, please contact Rhiannon Adams on 01322 625034 or email [email protected].
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