Job vacancy: Clinical Services Programme Lead: Mental Health, NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit, Bristol / Whole of the South (Hybrid)

Job summary

Main area: Clinical Services
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 891-CSU-7785WH

Employer: NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
Employer type: NHS
Site: Clinical Services - Mental Health
Town: Bristol / Whole of the South (Hybrid)
Salary: £58,972 - £68,525 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/05/2024 23:59

Clinical Services Programme Lead: Mental Health

Band 8b

We want SCW to be a great place to work, where we all feel safe and can be our authentic selves. This means valuing and respecting everyone from all backgrounds and embracing equality, diversity, inclusivity & wellbeing across everything we do. We are committed to listening, learning and improving on our approach to ensure these principles remain at our heart, helping us all to thrive.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

Educated to master level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Member of relevant clinical regulatory body and committed to continuing professional development
Significant clinical experience and high level expertise in mental health

Values & Behaviours

Essential criteria

Patient First – Customer Excellence
Aspirational
Collaborative
Insightful
Respectful

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

Significant experience in a number of senior managerial and/or clinical roles
Recent significant experience at a senior level in the NHS or relevant environment with proven track record of using professional knowledge (managerial and/or clinical) to bring about change
Significant experience of facilitating and managing change
Significant experience of working with senior managers and leaders
Knowledge of NHS initiatives, policy and developments and how they relate to pharmacy and medicines optimisation in particular those relating to NICE
Demonstrates good understanding of the legal, governance and ethical framework within which clinicians, primary care organisations, provider trusts, and commissioners work
Experience of financial reporting
Experience of multidisciplinary working
Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment

Desirable criteria

Experience of managing a budget
Delivery of education and training
Comprehensive knowledge of programme and project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2, Microsoft Project and MSP

Skills & Capabilities

Essential criteria

Capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Highly developed interpersonal, negotiation, influencing and conflict management skills
Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
Management of whole systems change projects
Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
Experience of evidence based medicine and of obtaining relevant and up to date clinical and regulatory information
Demonstrates the full range of leadership qualities, skills and behaviours. Highly developed presentation skills
Ability to use databases, spreadsheets and word processing IT Software
Prioritisation skills with ability to manage multiple projects
Proven team worker with ability to motivate others
Able to travel

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
Experience in the use of clinical audit to improve practice
Critical appraisal skills

SCW offers agile and hybrid ways of working. Hybrid working is a type of flexible working where employees blend working from different locations. It offers the employee the ability to choose to work wherever and however they are most productive, whether it be in an office, at home, or a customer site. Office location can be flexible within the SCW estate and will be agreed upon offer of contract.

SCW staff that are in posts considered to be agile will not be expected to attend office space for general working but will be required on occasions to attend face to face meetings and collaborative working sessions that may require travel to their home base or other locations across the estate or customer sites.

Please feel free to contact the Recruiting Manager of this vacancy to discuss further the working arrangement.

Some of our sites have accessible parking provision which is free or paid for work purpose this not contractual entitlement.

We make every effort to contact all candidates to let them know the outcome of their application. However, if you haven't heard back from us within 2 weeks after the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful.

This is an exciting time to join NHS South, Central and West.

SCW is an NHS support and transformation organisation that helps health and social care organisations deliver the best possible care to people. As partners of choice to more than 200 organisations that support millions of people, our mission is to help deliver the NHS Long Term Plan, improving the health and wellbeing of communities.

We’re supporting clients whose vision and quest for innovation requires us to be flexible, adaptable and open to adventure; giving us the freedom to work in new ways, looking at things from a different angle and challenging the norm.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to attracting and retaining the best people in order to provide the best possible services to our customers. Our people enjoy challenging, rewarding roles, supporting our customers to improve their local health and care services.

We want our people to fulfil their potential so we offer a wide range of training, opportunities to gain qualifications, as well as access to coaching, mentoring schemes and employee wellbeing and support for a healthy work-life balance.

SCW were selected as an NHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion Partner for three consecutive years 2015-2018 and are now proud to be Alumni of this programme.

If you are successful in your application, we will value your experience, your contribution and we will give you the knowledge to succeed as part of your specialist team and as part of our organisation.

Our values

Patients First: our sole focus and inspiration is to help commissioners improve the quality of patient care, treatment and experience.

Aspirational: we deliver excellence, and celebrate innovation. This drives us towards becoming the best.

Collaborative: we build effective partnerships, whilst focusing on delivery. We work towards achieving shared goals.

Insightful: As experts in our fields, we understand the bigger picture and its complexities, we challenge convention, and we uncover opportunities.

Respectful: We treat everyone with respect and hope it will be returned. Recognising and valuing their knowledge, we involve our customers, teams and partners in decisions.

Please note SCW asks successful candidates to upload their Right to Work and Identity documents for digital verification. If you are unable to provide the required documents for the digital verification or do not have access to a smartphone or tablet, this will result in the verification being done face-to-face.