Job summary
- Main area
- Community Health Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 395-CR001-25
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Church Road
- Town
- Havering
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 p.a. (Plus High Cost Area Supplement and On-call Allowance)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Integrated Care Director
NHS AfC: Band 9
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.
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Job overview
NELFT and the London Borough of Havering operate a successful partnership for the delivery of Community, Mental Health, and Care Services. The Integrated Care Director, working with a local team of senior clinicians, lived experience leads and corporate colleagues, leads the delivery of safe, high quality and productive services. Both NELFT and the Council are highly focused on the delivery of the best health and care services for the people of Havering. ÌýThe successful applicant will have a key role in leading the further development of integrated services in the Borough, including with other system partners through the local Place Based Partnership.Ìý
A key priority for the directorate is ensuring our service delivery and human resources management is underpinned by equality, diversity and inclusion and the Integrated Care Director will play a key leadership role. ÌýThe Trust launched its Anti Racism Strategy last year and the Integrated Care Director, with the local leadership team, will lead on its implementation across the directorate.
The directorate leads on the Regional Limb Centre that is an NHSE commissioned centre of excellence for those in need of rehabilitation, prosthetics, orthotics and environmental adaptations.Ìý
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced and innovative senior manager with extensive experience of working in an organisation with responsibility for the provision of mental health. You will live our values and be authentic, collaborative, emotionally intelligent and have a passion for social justice, improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities. You will have experience of working with our service users, those with lived experience and clinicians to develop a shared vision of services and standards of service delivery and a track record that demonstrates major achievement through innovation and strong, sensitive leadership.
Working with the Havering Place Based Partnership, our Integrated Care Director will relentlessly focus on the needs of the local community. The post holder will establish and maintain close working relationships with external partners to ensure the smooth delivery of services. The Integrated Care Director will ensure that services are delivered and improved through close working with clinical leadership, use of Quality Improvement methodology and co-production with service users, carers and staff. They will work closely with partners in collaboratives across North East London to deliver improvements in service quality and delivery, and associated health improvements for local populations.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFTÌý
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. ÌýAs 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 focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period Ìý
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).Ìý
High Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735 p.a. pro rata for part time).
On-call AllowanceÌý
This post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts a payment of 0.75% of the basic salary.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We deliver our services with pride in an area with significant social and economic deprivation, and we work hard to address those factors that have historically adversely impacted those we serve. To achieve this goal, we need to recruit and retain the Best People; the Integrated Care Director will need to continuously strive to improve the wellbeing of our staff, and create an environment where people want to work, feel valued, included, and empowered.
The person appointed will be able to demonstrate a strong knowledge and understanding of both health and care services and will be able to demonstrate a track record of appropriate service delivery at a senior level. ÌýA commitment to coproduction and valuing the voices of people with lived experience is essential to this role.
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
- Professional knowledge (Clinical or social work) acquired through degree, supplemented by Specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level, management experience or equivalent experience with operational and strategic knowledge of these areas.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of health and social care policy and Mental Health Legislation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of three years’ senior operational management experience of Mental Health and or Community Health.
- Track record of significant achievement in directing and managing the delivery and improvement of services within an organisation of comparable size, scale and complexity
- Extensive experience, expertise and understanding of performance and change management, business planning, budget setting & management and commissioning processes
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Carol White
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Operating Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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