Senior Programme Manager | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £80,025 - £91,336 pro rata inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 June 2025 |
| Location: | Dartford, Kent, DA2 7WG |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7207821/277-7207821-CORP |
Summary
The post holder will work as part of the Cavendish Square Group and the NHS England London Mental Health team which sits under the Nursing and Quality Directorate.
This regional role will focus on identifying and mapping mental health clinical leadership capacity across mental health trusts in London with the Cavendish Square Group.
The aim of this role is to advance areas of mental health priority in London through enhanced mental health clinical leader involvement and engagement.
This will be achieved by the post holder by mapping the clinical leadership capacity, appetite, and engagement opportunities for those leaders. The post holder will be expected to produce a report of the Clinical Leadership Capacity in London aligned to the London Mental Health Strategy and its’ priorities.
This regional role will also support closer working of senior clinical leaders and groups in London, including (but not limited to) the NHS London Clinical Director and Deputy Clinical Director of Mental Health, the Cavendish Square Groups, and wider clinical networks.
The post holder must have good project management skills and be able to work with independence in a changing environment. The post holder would ideally have clinical experience, but this is not essential, and will be able to form, maintain, and manage relationships with senior clinical and operational mental health leaders.
Attached is comprehensive job description and person specification that provides details of the main duties of the job.
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
The post holder will:
• Make a significant contribution to the successful delivery of the ambitions in the London Mental Health Strategy, and play a leading role in the implementation of the regional strategy with the potential to significantly improve services and outcomes for patients.
• Be able to work to tight deadlines, be adaptable to changing/challenging situations and able to manage and prioritise their own work efficiently.
The post holder will be responsible for:
• Engaging with key strategic regional and national policy makers at Executive level to inform development of strategy and policies overseeing performance
• Identifying clinical leadership opportunities for driving the strategy for mental health, leading, supporting and ensuring alignment across the system
• Developing a report of clinical leadership capacity in London, including a mapping of which clinical leaders may be best placed to advance the regional mental health priorities, and engagement opportunities for those leaders.
• Providing subject matter expertise to systems, partner organisations and NHSE teams for the mental health programme to support the planning and delivery of the transformation objectives as set out in the London Strategy for Mental Health.
• Driving reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence commissioning research where needed to develop best practice
• Identify examples of national and international best practice and to ensure that NHS England and NHS Improvement benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
• Establish and actively monitor key risks and issues, ensuring that effective mitigation plans are in place
Please read through the attached JD for further details about the role.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Jun 2025
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