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Service Director, Lewisham and Addiction Directorate
| Posting date: | 07 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £113,557 - £129,443 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 March 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE13 6LW |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6952596/334-NCL-6952596-TA |
Summary
A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
South London and Maudsley (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. We serve a local population of 1.3 million people in south London, as well as specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.
Each year we provide inpatient care for over 5,000 people, and treat more than 40,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon and more than 50 specialist, regional and national services.
Our work is divided across six operational directorates in four boroughs in south London. We provide more than 240 services to local people, as well as more than 50 specialist services for children and adults across the UK.
Our aim both locally and nationally is to diagnose and treat people as early as possible, assess and manage risk, and promote recovery and social inclusion. We deliver education and training programmes and carry out research which is published internationally in high-profile journals.
Each of our operational directorates is led by a service director who leads their team to deliver the high quality care we are known for, both in hospital and in the community.
The Operations Directorates, which group services to serve particularly place based services (for example adult mental health services for the borough), and / or trustwide or specialist services. Operations Directorates are supported by HR, finance, commercial, contracts, BI, IT and academic science.
Responsible for delivery of Operational Directorate’s strategy through developmentofrobustbusinessplans,settingof relevantoperationaltargets,and delivery of its activities within agreed budgets and standards.
To lead,withthe medicalandnursing lead andwiderleadership team,effective working of governance structures, roles and responsibilities based on multi- disciplinary approaches with the emphasis on collaborative leadership and teamworking.
Toensureeffectiverelationshipswiththe Integrated Care Boards (particularly SW London and SE London), Integrated Care Systems, Lewisham “Place”, the SL Partnership, Localauthoritiesand other external stakeholders.
To ensure involvement with key stakeholders in all aspectsof serviceplanninganddelivery,todevelopculturallysensitiveservicesacceptableto an ethnically diverse inner city population and to ensure fair access to services irrespective of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, race or disability.
Tocontributetotheeffectivemanagement,developmentandstrategicdirectionof the Trust and wider partners (including Kings Health Partners and South London Partnership) and ensure the Operational Directorate and its interests are effectively represented.
To enable delivery of addictions services for the Trust, recognising their ways of working which may need different approaches, contractual arrangements, data and reporting, workforce needs and nationally and locally identified strategic objectives.
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated therefore have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our amazing benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and annual leave.
- Work life balance and supportive of a range of flexible working options
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants
This role will lead the operation, performance, finance, workforce and strategic elements of the operational directorate. Lewisham and Addictions is a SLaM Operations Directorate which delivers the care required by the population served by the Trust. Care provision is specified by:
• the contracts in place with commissioners;
• the activity of cost and volume services;
• commercial agreements with third parties;
• any other agreements with the Trust, which may include research activity
Operations Directorate requirements are specified in a performance envelope which will be derived each year from all contracted quality standards, activity volumes and financial values. Each Operations Directorate is designed to deliver against its specific performance envelope and agreed on an annual basis, therefore the makeup of the Borough will change as services and demand for services change.
Operational Directorate Brief Overview
For adults of working age in Lewisham, the operational directorate will provide core services for adults of working age, Lewisham place population is approximately 380,000 people, including:
· Community Mental Health Services
· Liaison Mental Health Services based at University Hospital Lewisham
· Early intervention services
· Complex Care Services
· Acute Care / Inpatient services
· Home Treatment Team services
· Improved Access to Psychological Therapies
At the time of going to advert, Lewisham is one of only 6 national pilot sites for a new 24/7 community centre that will help define a transformative new way of working, and this post will be critical in ensuring its effective implementation.
The directorate also hosts the Trust’s addictions services, providing drug, alcohol and smoking cessation services in the community in Wandsworth, Bexley, Lambeth and Richmond.
The operational directorate has around 600 staff, and budget of ~£60m
Please see JD for full details
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Mar 2025
South London and Maudsley (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. We serve a local population of 1.3 million people in south London, as well as specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.
Each year we provide inpatient care for over 5,000 people, and treat more than 40,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon and more than 50 specialist, regional and national services.
Our work is divided across six operational directorates in four boroughs in south London. We provide more than 240 services to local people, as well as more than 50 specialist services for children and adults across the UK.
Our aim both locally and nationally is to diagnose and treat people as early as possible, assess and manage risk, and promote recovery and social inclusion. We deliver education and training programmes and carry out research which is published internationally in high-profile journals.
Each of our operational directorates is led by a service director who leads their team to deliver the high quality care we are known for, both in hospital and in the community.
The Operations Directorates, which group services to serve particularly place based services (for example adult mental health services for the borough), and / or trustwide or specialist services. Operations Directorates are supported by HR, finance, commercial, contracts, BI, IT and academic science.
Responsible for delivery of Operational Directorate’s strategy through developmentofrobustbusinessplans,settingof relevantoperationaltargets,and delivery of its activities within agreed budgets and standards.
To lead,withthe medicalandnursing lead andwiderleadership team,effective working of governance structures, roles and responsibilities based on multi- disciplinary approaches with the emphasis on collaborative leadership and teamworking.
Toensureeffectiverelationshipswiththe Integrated Care Boards (particularly SW London and SE London), Integrated Care Systems, Lewisham “Place”, the SL Partnership, Localauthoritiesand other external stakeholders.
To ensure involvement with key stakeholders in all aspectsof serviceplanninganddelivery,todevelopculturallysensitiveservicesacceptableto an ethnically diverse inner city population and to ensure fair access to services irrespective of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, race or disability.
Tocontributetotheeffectivemanagement,developmentandstrategicdirectionof the Trust and wider partners (including Kings Health Partners and South London Partnership) and ensure the Operational Directorate and its interests are effectively represented.
To enable delivery of addictions services for the Trust, recognising their ways of working which may need different approaches, contractual arrangements, data and reporting, workforce needs and nationally and locally identified strategic objectives.
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated therefore have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our amazing benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and annual leave.
- Work life balance and supportive of a range of flexible working options
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants
This role will lead the operation, performance, finance, workforce and strategic elements of the operational directorate. Lewisham and Addictions is a SLaM Operations Directorate which delivers the care required by the population served by the Trust. Care provision is specified by:
• the contracts in place with commissioners;
• the activity of cost and volume services;
• commercial agreements with third parties;
• any other agreements with the Trust, which may include research activity
Operations Directorate requirements are specified in a performance envelope which will be derived each year from all contracted quality standards, activity volumes and financial values. Each Operations Directorate is designed to deliver against its specific performance envelope and agreed on an annual basis, therefore the makeup of the Borough will change as services and demand for services change.
Operational Directorate Brief Overview
For adults of working age in Lewisham, the operational directorate will provide core services for adults of working age, Lewisham place population is approximately 380,000 people, including:
· Community Mental Health Services
· Liaison Mental Health Services based at University Hospital Lewisham
· Early intervention services
· Complex Care Services
· Acute Care / Inpatient services
· Home Treatment Team services
· Improved Access to Psychological Therapies
At the time of going to advert, Lewisham is one of only 6 national pilot sites for a new 24/7 community centre that will help define a transformative new way of working, and this post will be critical in ensuring its effective implementation.
The directorate also hosts the Trust’s addictions services, providing drug, alcohol and smoking cessation services in the community in Wandsworth, Bexley, Lambeth and Richmond.
The operational directorate has around 600 staff, and budget of ~£60m
Please see JD for full details
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Mar 2025