Service Director – Forensic Mental Health & Offender Healthcare
Due to the retirement of the current service director next April, a fantastic opportunity has arisen to lead our Forensic and Offender Healthcare Services Directorate. The post holder will be responsible for the safe delivery of highly effective mental and physical health services for these service user groups. You will be responsible for a budget of £104 million and 1210 staff, including nursing, medical, psychological therapies, allied health professionals and staff in management and support roles, as well as being responsible 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 – can be felt throughout the forensics and offender healthcare services. You will be a key part of the Trust Executive and you will lead on ensuring that colleagues in your services across a wide geographical area, 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. W 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.
We are passionate about partnership. A central part of your role will involve joint working with our service users and their families, and with our external partners, particularly NHSE/I, our partners within the South London Mental Health Partnership (SLP), third sector partners and colleagues within HM Prison Service.
Our work with the South London and Maudsley Mental Health Trust and South-West London & St George’s Mental Trust as the South London Mental Health Partnership is well established. An Adult Secure Provider Collaborative with Oxleas as the lead provider has been in place since October 2020. You will work closely with partners as the Lead Operational Director with responsibility for the day-to-day management of the SLP Programme, including patient care, workforce, and finance. This will involve close liaison with Service Directors / Leads in the sovereign trusts and the commissioning hub.
The Offender Healthcare portfolio in Oxleas has seen considerable recent expansion, with the incorporation of services in Kent in 2021 and in the South-West of England in 2022. The priority is now to consolidate these services and ensure consistency of quality in service delivery and ensure that staff throughout the directorate feel part of the Oxleas family.
As a key 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.
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
Responsibility for the strategic and operational management of Forensic and Offender Healthcare services, ensuring performance and financial targets are met.
As a member of the Executive team, contributing to the attainment of strategic goals and overall management of Trust business.
Work with NHS and independent sector partners to ensure delivery of Lead Provider responsibilities within the South London Partnership adult secure care provider collaborative
The delivery of effective health services to people in secure settings and receiving specialist care in the community through the effective management and development of resources.
The development and delivery of new integrated pathways of care with other trust services and external organisations within the local health economy.
The budget is c. £100 million with 1210 staff, including nursing, medical, therapies, and staff in management and support roles.
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 passionate about the cultural and socioeconomic diversity of our local communities and how we can improve outcomes? 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 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 cares passionately about delivering the best possible healthcare.
This advert closes on Thursday 14 Dec 2023
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