Lewisham Community Partnerships Officer | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Location: | Lewisham, SE13 6LW |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7343237/334-NCL-7343237-TA |
Summary
This role will be based on Lewisham sites, supporting the Care Transformation Programme, which covers both community and acute and urgent care. The post holder would be required to travel
around the CMHT to provide support. The Care Transformation Programme supports SLaM's ambitious journey to ensure its services
deliver outstanding mental health care, responding to the needs of the communities it serves across all settings. NHS England has set out a clear direction for enabling inpatient quality transformation
across a range of inpatient services, recognising that this needs to be done in parallel with highquality, responsive models of care in the community. The NHS Long Term Plan has a strong focus on
expanding and improving the quality of community care for people with mental health problems, with the aim of ensuring more people can access community mental health services than ever
before. Additionally, the NHS England planning guidance has reiterated expectations regarding crisis care and the use of out-of-area placements. SLaM is working with its partners to undertake major work on both its 24/7 crisis and acute services, as well as its community care model, in line with the Trust's strategy.
As part of the Lewisham Directorate, the postholder will support and help deliver a range of projects and programmes. This means being able to multi-task, produce and maintain robust project
documentation, drive delivery and work across clinical and service teams to enable successful change management.
The postholder will support the development of community partnership and community connection projects, as well as communications, across the Trust. This will involve the post holder developing an indepth understanding of the specific needs of the populations in the boroughs. The postholder will establish and maintain connections with community groups and organisations across South London to foster strong working relationships with other healthcare providers, voluntary and community groups, small businesses, and community pillars. They will seek opportunities to participate in stakeholder forums, support various workstreams, and encourage and support a partnership
approach. The postholder will support engagement with a more diverse range of partners, ensuring the inclusion
of disadvantaged community groups. They will have a particular focus on reaching diverse groups of people, including people of the globalised majority, people who do not speak English as a first language, neurodivergent people, people with disabilities, LGBT+ people, and people from disadvantaged social
backgrounds.
At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), we believe in delivering excellent care with pride and compassion. Everything we do is to improve the lives of the people and communities
we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.
To support the Trust by helping to coordinate and drive the delivery of community partnership projects within a defined portfolio.
To support in liaising, developing and maintaining strong relationships with both healthcare and non-healthcare organisations including third sector voluntary and community organisations, faith groups, social care, housing, education, Citizens Advice Bureau, Job Centre, House of Parliament, advocacy groups, and community leaders across the boroughs with a view of enhancing service delivery through partnership working.
To support in reaching, developing and managing partnerships from all sectors of the community.
To work with service users, carers, staff and community members, coordinating projects and promoting co-production service improvements and developments.
To support in mapping out community assets, working with the Trust, local authorities, and third sector umbrella organisations to scope the existing community assets in the local landscape, creating a Community Asset Database.
To research and identify groups, organisations and populations within the local community with whom the division should develop relationships.
To help realise identified community partnerships opportunities with a clear focus on the delivery of Long-Term Plan commitments for mental health.
To utilise project management principles, supporting the Delivery Manager and other project leads, including wider clinical/operational staff, and partners, including local authorities, service users and carers, and third sector organisations. Main Responsibilities
1. Project Management
Coordinate and deliver projects within the Trust to achieve beneficial change in line with SLaM's strategic objectives.
Plan, track, and support the implementation of project activities, working closely with senior leads and senior clinicians.
Develop and maintain clear project documentation covering the fundamental components of projects (scope, budgets, risks, opportunities, issues and quality requirements).
Coordinate community asset mapping. Develop, maintain and manage a clear database of community assets based on findings from the scoping exercise.
Deliver timely, accurate, and comprehensive progress reports to ensure project visibility.
Support each identified project stage, ensuring all relevant milestones are attained and, where necessary, escalating deviations through project governance to ensure projects remain on schedule, in budget or to quality specification.
Administration of project/programme meetings (e.g. preparation of agendas, circulation of papers, capture of actions and other outputs such as process maps) and fulfil role as overall governance and reporting lead for relevant projects/programmes.
Participate in and organise project reviews to support project evaluation, including identifying and implementing lessons learned.
Coordinate and support the delivery of partnership workshops, organising logistical arrangements, papers, communications, and venues. AfC Approved on 11 June 2025, SAJE 0435, Community Partnerships Officer, Band 6
2. Governance and Reporting
Support the Lewisham Directorate, well Unit and CMHT office to coordinate, compile and deliver professional slide decks and papers that satisfy Trust governance and reporting requirements.
Receive complex information and produce reports and briefings to senior colleagues in relation to projects.
Coordinate work with clinicians, managers and other staff across the Trust to enable comprehensive and effective reporting to senior internal and external stakeholders, including community partners.
Ensure that reports are thoroughly reviewed and validated before they are issued, and provide high-quality analysis of the information presented, so that stakeholders receive a comprehensive and considered picture of activity, service levels, and any relevant issues.
2. Stakeholder Engagement
Proactively support third sector engagement across the Trust, using an Asset-Based Community Development approach that builds on the assets that are found in the community and mobilises individuals, associations, and institutions to come together to realise and develop their strengths.
Coordinate and oversee projects in collaboration with stakeholders, liaising with VCSE organisations and clinical staff regularly.
Plan and run high-level stakeholder events to support service development and increase SLaM's visibility within the community and be responsible for supporting other team members in coordinating any partnership or engagement events across the Trust.
To support the Care Transformation Programme in building awareness of and forming links between all local community connector-type roles (community navigators, social prescribers, community connectors) across the Trust.
Contribute to and participate in the delivery of partnership workshops, training events and engagement opportunities to various groups of people, including internal and external stakeholders.
Coordinate stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests, in a range of situations, working autonomously and as part of a team.
3. Financial Planning and Management
Track and report on project budgets.
Support as required on projects to enable best value, ensuring that robust and detailed plans are in place to deliver the required level of efficiency savings.
Support in procurement processes, including working with senior managers on specification development, liaising closely with procurement, contracting and finance teams, monitoring progress, raising POs and tracking invoices – providing an end-to-end service support.
4. Personal Development
Proactively participate in management supervision, annual objective setting and appraisal processes.
Proactively identify continued professional development opportunities.
This advert closes on Monday 4 Aug 2025