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Head of Mental Health Transformation for Children and Young People
| Posting date: | 10 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £55,056 to £63,367 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55056 - £63367 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Northallerton, DL7 8AE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | F0025-24-0024 |
Summary
Operational management (Key responsibilities): Working with the CYP Consultant in Public Health, along with a Programme Manager, provide innovative leadership for the Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation Team in North Yorkshire. Drive forward the Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation Programme ensuring it is innovative, solution focused, well organised, delivered on time and achieves desired outcomes of meeting the needs of the population within the limitations of the financial framework. Progress the agreed outcome of the CYP MH Summit and the recommendations from the scoping report for CYP MH in NY which include (but are not limited to): needs led approach, system wide change, non-medical model, provision for complex CYP, work at local level, jointly agreed outcomes, increased capacity, engage the VCSE, ambitious solutions. Ensure the principles of participation and co-production are embedded with all work to ensure children, young people and families are at the heart of the transformation. Ensure that the programme is delivered utilising change management theory, ensuring the ability to rapidly and effectively deliver and implement change. Create a culture of open and honest working that supports escalation and resolution of risks and issues and encourages shared learning. Manage effective programme and portfolio reporting processes including escalation and respond to changing project priorities in numerous complex programmes by providing clear and effective options for mitigation and action plans. Network and benchmarking to adopt national and regional innovative best practices within new service developments. Analyse and interpret any potential and/or complex risks in order to select the most appropriate methodology and resources to implement projects and undertake service reviews. Source and collate a range of national and local quantitative and qualitative data, evidence, guidance, policies and information to assist with the development of solutions and recommendations based upon sound and robust facts. Resource management (Core functions): The Head of the Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation Programme will lead an integrated transformation team, alongside system colleagues, to support the innovative design and delivery of Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation in North Yorkshire. The Programme Head will be expected to work closely with the CYP Consultant in Public Health and the Programme Manager to: Provide leadership, guidance, support and challenge to the transformation work programme for CYP MH. Ensure that any new systems or processes put in place result in improved experiences and easier access to support in a timely manner for CYP and their families. Ensure service transformation fits in with and complements other parts of the system. Provide advice and guidance on service transformation and promote the work. This includes attending meetings where there may be resistance to change and involves highly developed interpersonal and communication skills. Use service transformation skills and expertise to develop action plans and timescales to ensure change processes do not affect performance standards. Initiate process developments for service transformation programmes and develop local documentation and user manuals/pathway guidance to support this. Develop a plan for ongoing evaluation of the transformation work that will be sustainable once the initial system design work is complete. The postholder will be responsible for formulating long term strategic plans which involve uncertainty and may impact across multiple organisations within the mental health system. Identify, investigate and resolve any problems that occur and liaise with all those involved to resolve issues. Analyse complex transformation information and data and present this in a format that is understandable for all readers. The postholder will work at pace and will prioritise and re-prioritise tasks as appropriate to manage conflicting tasks and changing timelines. Develop plans, seize opportunities and mitigate threats to deliver the strategic objectives. Propose changes to the transformation team function making recommendations for improvements in both effectiveness and efficiency. Finance/resources Alongside the MH Transformation Programme Manager, be directly responsible for any delegated budgets associated with the management of the transformation programme. Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency. Human resources/workforce Be responsible for the effective management of the Band N/7 staff member reporting to the postholder, including performance appraisal and managing personal conduct, competence and career development. Forge positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve the transformation programme's objectives. Foster close working relationships across relevant organisations. Partnerships (Key relationships): Proactively engage and work collaboratively with teams and colleagues at a senior and operational level across the complex system of services for children, young people and their families. This requires using highly developed interpersonal and communication skills. Establish key relationships at a strategic and operational level with a range of key partners across the system, including, but not limited to: North Yorkshire Council and neighbouring Local Authorities NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICS and neighbouring ICS teams Local NHS Trusts and other healthcare providers including Tees, Esk, Wear Valley (TEWV), Compass Phoenix, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT), Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCT) Clinicians across primary, secondary and tertiary care Partners agencies including but not limited to: Social Care, Police and other criminal justice agencies, Education, Parent Carer Forums and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector Children and young people, their parents/carers or family Primary Care and Local Care Partnerships Strategic management (Management and leadership responsibilities, Planning and organisation): Working closely with the CYP Consultant in Public Health, the post- holder will: Work alongside system colleagues to lead the innovative design and delivery of Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation in North Yorkshire. Provide leadership, challenge and support to the CYP Transformation workstream and support the development of innovative solutions that will deliver expected outcomes. Manage the governance and approval processes to ensure oversight and control of the transformation programme across partner organisations. Lead the team to manage risks and address any shortfalls in delivery, removing barriers to transformation, escalating for resolution as required. Identify cross-cutting barriers and enablers between other programmes of work and bring recommendations for joint work to senior leadership teams. Manage the processes that mitigate the risk of silo working between projects, objectively reviewing how projects can work together as a coherent solution identifying synergies, risks, duplication and interdependencies. Create a work environment that is marked by pride, enthusiasm, innovation and collaboration. Work with the CYP Consultant in Public Health and partners to develop and implement general policy and service development. Ensure stakeholder representation is engaged throughout the cycle. Drive process efficiency in the continuous development of the end-to-end cycle and its associated performance metrics. Take responsibility for linking people, resource and strategy to organisational plans both short and long term. Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments. Communications (Reporting processes): Lead the transformation programme management function, implementing a rigorous and disciplined approach to the way we identify, report and ensure progress with projects. Work in partnership with communication and engagement colleagues to deliver a co-ordinated approach to communication and engagement supported by consistent and relevant support materials. Lead workshops with multi-agency partners to ensure all partners are involved in the transformational change programme. Ensure delivery in accordance with accepted change and project management principles, using highly developed specialist knowledge across a range of good practice techniques, tools and structured management approaches underpinned by theory and experience. Capture and document the full extent of the work programme and, alongside the CYP Consultant in Public Health, provide leadership in planning and delivering transformation. Prioritise projects within the resources available. Identify, analyse, track and challenge expected benefits and impact on outcomes. Report progress in a clear and concise fashion, through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports to appropriate boards and committees. This may involve analysing and making judgements on highly complex, sensitive and contentious information; gaining agreement or co-operation required and working with staff at all levels. Proactively manage stakeholders and respond to and resolve conflict between stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms. Develop detailed implementation plans to ensure the delivery of the agreed transformation programme. Undertake project reviews and ensure learning is disseminated and informs future projects.