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Job summary

Main area
Executive Team
Grade
Executive / Very Senior Manager
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
395-CR722-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
CEME Centre
Town
Rainham
Closing
08/09/2024 23:59
Interview date
08/10/2024

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Executive Director of Partnerships

Executive / Very Senior Manager

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

The Executive Director of Partnerships is one of the voting Executive Directors of the Board and the aim of the role is to develop, manage and deliver the organisational strategy of NELFT. They will also be responsible for the development of our Collaboratives in both London, Essex and Kent and promotion of partnership working with other NHS, social care and third sector organisations for the improvement of service delivery to our patients in north east London, Essex and Kent.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will bring experience of working at senior level within a healthcare setting, with experience of successful development and implementation of organisational and clinical strategies. The successful candidate will demonstrate experience of managing major organisational change, particularly in a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency setting, ideally with experience of transformation in mental health and community health services and the development of integrated care across system boundaries. Crucially, you will promote and embed a compassionate, fair and just culture of diversity, equality, inclusion and human rights.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and appointments made on merit. We believe that the best boards are those that are balanced and reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our board and particularly encourage applications from women, people from the local Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period 

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff)

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust.  All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.  The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Masters degree standard in a management discipline or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working at Board or senior level within a healthcare delivery setting
  • Experience of successful development and implementation of organisational and clinical strategies
  • Experience of managing major organisational change, particularly in a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency setting
  • Experience of promoting and embedding a compassionate, fair and just culture of diversity, equality, inclusion and human rights

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Paul Calaminus
Job title
Chief Executive Officer
Email address
[email protected]
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