Senior Project Manager | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	30 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£70,396 - £80,837 pa inc, HCA inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	29 August 2025
Location:	Dartford, DA2 7AF
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7367133/277-7367133-FOR

Summary

South London Liaison & Diversion & Men’s MHTR

The role of Senior Project Manager within L&D and MHTR services in London has been developed to enhance the effectiveness and quality of service delivery across both North and South London. This post will support the integration of both Liaison & Diversion and Men’s MHTR with North London and the pan-London Women’s MHTR service.

Leading on mobilisation of the service to conclusion including establishing formal agreements on how both North and South will collaborate to deliver a cohesive service. There will be an equivalent post within the North. This role will be ringfenced exclusively to manage the transition to a new delivery model and integration of the L&D and MHTR services within South London and will also work collaboratively with their counterparts in North London to drive service development, adapt to delivery model changes to achieve a ‘one London’ model as outlined in the Service Development and Improvement Plan (SDIP)

This post will also supervise a Band 7 Project Management support role.

As a Senior Project Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in developing the pathways between L&D and MHTR, and L&D in the South with the North as well as with Probation partners.

The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure a seamless integration and collaboration between the South London L&D service and the Primary Men’s MHTR service. These services must work in tandem to provide continuous, person-centered care, ensuring that transitions between services are smooth and efficient. Additionally, both services should align closely with other criminal justice health services, such as the Women’s Primary MHTR, Reconnect and Prison Healthcare.

The postholder will hold a key role central to the mobilisation and service improvement and development of the new service model in the South London L&D and men’s MHTR services and the links with the Women’s MHTR (Pan-London) service and the mobilisation of the North London L&D and MHTR services.

The postholder will have detailed oversight of the Service Specification for Integrated L&D and Men’s MHTR services to support and enable mobilisation and service development.

This post will be a key contact point for SLP colleagues, commissioners and partners during the mobilisation and early days of the contract.

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

Ensure collaboration between the three Trusts and Waythrough (our community partner) in relation to TUPE and ongoing workforce planning.

Despite being separate contracts, the North & South London L&D and MHTR services are expected to collaborate closely to ensure seamless service delivery. This includes sharing best practice, learning from each other’s experiences, and jointly addressing challenges related to service delivery and external partnerships.

This post will support this collaboration, facilitating a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining how we will work together. This may include, but is not limited to:

· joint meetings

· data sharing

· shared training initiatives

· other cooperative activities

This post will lead the integration of the L&D service with the Primary Men’s MHTR service is central to the delivery of the South London Integrated Non-Custodial service, working with SLP Trusts and partners. The aim is to create a streamlined, collaborative pathway that ensures continuity of care for individuals as they move through the CJS, promoting better outcomes and reducing reoffending rates.

Supporting the process for vetting and onboarding staff as part of the mobilisation period and seeking to collaborate with commissioners and partners to unblock vetting process blocks.

Supporting new arrangements for data collation, and reporting to the North London collaborative who have overall pan-London data responsibility for L&D and MHTR

Support colleagues to ensure contracts are agreed and signed in the period prior to contract commencement.

Undertake the required reporting on progress to relevant groups across the SLP and wider partners as necessary, ensuring lead Executives and groups (SLP Adult Secure Programme Partnership Group and Clinical and Service Director Group) are appropriately briefed and regular reporting is given to these groups.

Work with senior colleagues across organisations to ensure compliance with local governance procedures and deadlines, ensuring that information is expressed in the appropriate style for each organisation/Trust. Provide adaptable communications at the appropriate level; this may be complicated by the various stakeholders’ processes

Lead and establish working groups and workstreams (e.g. the Mobilisation Working Group) as necessary to align with the agreed strategic direction and mobilisation and delivery plans and work with leads to deliver these.

Ensure that processes are in place to ensure that key commitments made in the tender submission are met and work with colleagues to deliver these.

Ensuring robust information sharing agreements are in place, formalised through an MOU between the services that will underpin the integration. These agreements will allow for the secure and timely exchange of data, ensuring continuity of care as individuals transition from police custody to court and where applicable into community-based treatment.

Leading the integration and pathway development with the Women’s MHTR service (not jointly commissioned but applying the same principles of integration), L&D practitioners will identify and screen eligible women and consult with the women’s MHTR service to ensure appropriate referrals and support through the PSR process.

To support the LondonL&D and MHTRteam and lead on specific work plans around co-development and making sure the voices of service users are captured in the strategic ambitions moving forward. Including supporting a service peer review process.

The post holder will champion service user involvement in all aspects of service mobilization and delivery, working with Trust and Community partners, the North London L&D and MHTR service, SLP and NHSE.

The postholder will be expected to uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality, to create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.

Responsibility for leading and collaboration on a range of policy implementation across multi agencies including the North London L&D and MHTR service, SLP, NHSE, Community partners and HMPPS.

The post holder will be required to work closely with a range of partners including the North London L&D and MHTR service, SLP, our Trust partners SLaM and SWLStG, our community partner Waythrough, NHSE, Police and HMPPS. The post holder will collaborate with people who have committed offences as service users, their carers, and members of the public in ensuring effective consultation and involvement.

The postholder will work with colleagues and stakeholders to develop services and pathways that are equitable and demonstrate outcome focused activity.

To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the team.

To work with colleagues within SLP and more broadly in the North region to develop mechanisms to collect evidence to improve services or patient pathways and provide evidence and intelligence to improve national standards for care and treatment both internally and externally.

The postholder will be expected to: -

· Ensure health, safety and wellbeing of self and staff within team.

· Ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department.

· Adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times.

There will be line management responsibilities for this post, and the post holder will be required to support colleagues and junior staff throughout the team and for new starters via team inductions, and they will be expected to take an active part in team support via reflective practice.

Where required the individual may be asked to work alongside a colleague offering skills development as well as leading team training on possible project management techniques or assisting in development of specific training tasks as the role requires. As such the person should be able to design, facilitate and lead in training packages as required.

Supervision and support as part of line management and reporting to the L&D and MHTR service will be offered as well as trust-based HR systems.

The role does not require direct budget management; however, the individual should be aware of budgetary forecasting, being able to take part in and support financial planning alongside colleagues from the wider team.


This advert closes on Wednesday 13 Aug 2025

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