Director of Children

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The current service director for Children and Young People's Services leaves at the end of March 2025, offering a fantastic opportunity for someone new to provide the strategic and operational leadership for the Children and Young People's Directorate. The post holder will be responsible for the safe delivery of effective mental health, physical health and public health services to this population. You will be responsible for a budget of £46 million and 700 staff including nursing, medical, psychological therapies, allied health professionals and staff in management and support roles, as well as responsibility for a number of sub-contracts. You will be an excellent, compassionate leader who will be passionate about ensuring that our Oxleas values - We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen and We Care - are felt throughout the Directorate. You will be a key part of the Trust Executive, and you will lead on ensuring that colleagues in your services, which are diverse and dispersed, feel a strong sense of being part of the Oxleas family. We believe that the variety and diversity of personal experience and the combination of different backgrounds in our Executive Team is as important to understanding and delivering quality to patients as our clinical and professional qualifications. So, we are interested in where your understanding of the importance of diversity comes from and how you will use this to contribute to both the Executive and the Directorate team that you manage.

Main duties of the job

We are committed to advocating for children and working in partnership to achieve the best we can for them and their families. The CYP Directorate also delivers sexual health services and community gynaecology. A central part of your role will involve working with our external partners in Education, Health and Social Care across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley and with our partners in the South London Mental Health Partnership (SLP). We also have strong partnership links with voluntary, community and social enterprise providers which are key to us delivering our services across the Boroughs.

The Directorate services are delivered from locations across the three boroughs and therefore strong leadership and strategic thinking are key to this role together with an ability to work flexibly across the demands of the different systems and the challenges each of them has.

As a member of the Trust Executive, you will play an important role in shaping the future for our patients and in continuing to make it one of the best places to work for our staff.

About us

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 Job description

Job responsibilities

The main responsibilities of this role are to be responsible for the strategic and operational performance of children and young peoples services and ensure that performance and financial targets are met. You will also be responsible for leading the Directorate Management Team, maintaining a collective leadership approach, identifying, and jointly achieving the Directorate priorities.

You will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of specific integrated care pathways across childrens services with education and social care colleagues with a focus on health inequalities.

The range of services provided by the directorate include:

CAMHS

CAMHS Borough Teams in Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley

Mental Health in Schools Teams - Greenwich and Bexley

Triborough Crisis and DBT Teams

Specialist Services - Greenwich and Bexley

Contraception, Sexual Health and Community Gynaecology

Community Paediatrics

Integrated Neurodisability Services

Children's Community Nursing

Therapies; Dietetics, Music Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy

Audiology

Children's Continuing Care

Young Greenwich School Nursing

LAC

Administrative Single Point of Access

As a member of the Executive Team, you will contribute to the attainment of the strategic goals and overall management of Trust business.

Can you help Oxleas continue to strive for equity for both its staff and those who use its services? Do you have the flexibility and openness of mind to work with colleagues in your services and in the Executive team to develop innovative approaches to improving patient health? Are you committed to improving outcomes for the diverse cultural and socioeconomic communities that we deliver services to? Can you be an advocate within the NHS and the wider clinical world for the innovations that you and our staff develop at Oxleas?

You will have led the delivery of health, education or social care within one or more complex organisations and have the vision and drive to bring about system-level change. Can you bring us, through your personal life experience or professional skills, insights that will enhance our ability to make a significant difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff and to the treatment of patients?

We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We welcome applications from all people, including those from a global majority background, those who live with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.

This is a highly rewarding role for someone who is dedicated to delivering the best possible healthcare to children and their families.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

Educated to masters level or equivalent experience. Leading transformational change across services, involving other statutory and third sector providers and supporting other providers, teams and individuals to achieve objectives.

Essential

Essential

Educated to masters level or equivalent experience. o Minimum of five years' experience at senior management level in a health or social care organisation

Essential

Essential

Leading transformational change across services, involving other statutory and third sector providers and supporting other providers, teams and individuals to achieve objectives

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