Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-T558-25
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pennine Care Trust Headquarters
- Town
- Ashton
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Tameside Living well system lead
NHS AfC: Band 8b
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
Are you a passionate and dynamic leader ready to make a real impact on mental health services in Tameside? We are seeking an inspiring individual to step into the newly created role of Living Well System Lead (Band 8B) within the NHS. This is a unique opportunity to drive transformational change, shape the future of mental health care, and influence system-wide improvements. As part of our supportive and forward-thinking leadership team, you will play a key role in fostering collaboration, innovation, and person-centered approaches to mental health support. If you are motivated by the challenge of making a lasting difference, we want to hear from you!
The Living Well System Lead will oversee the strategic development, implementation,
and management of initiatives to promote holistic wellbeing across the population.
Collaborating with health, social care, and VCSE partners, the postholder will ensure
the delivery of integrated, person-centred services that improve population health
outcomes and align with the NHS's core objectives.
This role requires exceptional leadership, expertise in system-wide integration, and the
ability to navigate complex stakeholder relationships to drive transformational change
in primary and secondary care mental health services
Main duties of the job
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which have been carefully crafted to help potential applicants understand the key requirements of this role.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which have been carefully crafted to help potential applicants understand the key requirements of this role.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification e.g. RGN / RMN / DipSW or equivalent senior leadership within the Health and social care system
- Evidence of further formal management study and/or management qualification
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
- Extensive knowledge of the Health and Social Care system including Mental Health services and primary care
Desirable criteria
- Formal management/ leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant track record of employment at a Band 8a operational level delivering services
- Considerable experience in operational leaderships roles
- Extensive transformation and service redesign/ large scale change experience and related policy development
- Demonstrate success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Relevant experience of implementing strategic and operational planning with oversight of business operating model effectiveness/ be able to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands.
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
- Evidence of delivering successful strategic and operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in the quality-ofservice delivery at a strategic level; including business case preparation, service initiation, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of outcome and output measures
- Experienced in developing both internal and external strategic partner relationships and alliances in progressing organization. operational issue resolution.
- Experience managing financial resources at a senior level, be able to work across organisations to challenge cost efficiency targets
- Experienced appraiser and supervisor of staff and proven experience in leading large clinical teams and a wide range of staff of different professions
- Experience of working to objectives and meeting deadlines
- Experience of addressing workforce and population health inequalities, experience of project work in this area and evidence based outcomes
Desirable criteria
- Primary Care mental health work experience
- Experience in the use of outcome measures such as CORE, PHQ9 and GAD7
- Experience of working with a psychological model of care
- Experience of triaging referrals
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of current national health agenda including the Community Mental Health Framework.
- A good understanding of wider NHS and social care strategies including substance misuse and homeless prevention and be able to work in partnership with public health to drive forward change
- A detailed understanding of the national agenda for Adult services– both legislative and direction of travel
- A good understanding of criminal justice system and the progression of Right Care Right Person implementation.
- Knowledge of business case development
- Sound knowledge of clinical governance and effective systems
- An understanding of the role and its contribution to the overall Trust agenda
- Knowledge and/ or experience of policy development at a national level
- Knowledge of management tools and organisational processes relevant to managing NHS resources
- Knowledge of clinical governance and quality improvement
- Good working knowledge of wider health and social care systems and structures
- Knowledge of national substance misuse strategy (i.e. Models of Care, DANOS)
- Understanding of current mental health legislation, Safeguarding and Child Protection
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Pennine Care’s Mental Health strategy
- Knowledge and understanding of the Strategic Framework to Tackle the Harm from Substance Use Strategy.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse complex issues and identify potential solutions
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovate service delivery and partnerships
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief at a senior level
- Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Effective motivator with strong influencing skills and personal credibility
- Highly developed communication skills, must have the ability to present using a wide range of resources to large audiences
- Ability to work in a high pressure environment with competing deadlines
- Ability to implement policies and deliver services
- Ability to interpret and use data relating to clinical settings
- Competent IT skills and ability to produce relevant management reports/ ability to manipulate data
- Evidence of well-developed management and leadership qualities
- Ability to effectively manage change
- Ability to develop credibility with clinicians, practitioners and stake holders
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate a team of experienced staff
Desirable criteria
- Skills in planning, delivery and evaluation of training
- Skills in the area of audit or research
- Skills in project work, ability to analyse outcomes and implement changes
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Participate in the Trust Manager on call rota
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachael Osborne
- Job title
- Associate Director - Tameside and Glossop
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01617165502
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