Job Description

South London and Maudsley (SLaM) is on an ambitious journey to ensure its services deliver outstanding mental health care, responding to the needs of the communities it serves - across all settings.



This post will be responsible for working across directorates and executive portfolios to ensure operational services are optimised and work to continuously improve, develop and respond to needs. This work will range from specific pathway or service work to deliver operational improvement initiatives, to leading cross-cutting enabling work to support high quality service delivery such as productivity, data quality, development of new ways of working, establishing partnerships and integrated, and/or model redesign (bringing in wider Trust support). The post holder would be expected to work with teams across the Trust and across the South London system. It will work to the Chief Operating Officer's office, whilst being required to work closely with other key executives, including matrix-reporting to the Director of Strategy and Transformation on some initiatives and working in close collaboration with the Head of PMO and Head of Transformation within the Trust.



Responsible for ensuring the implementation of work to develop, improve and optimise operational services across the Trust



To lead major work across directorates and with partners on the implementation of a range of areas of focus that develop, improve and optimise operational services across the Trust Work to understand challenges and needs in current services using data and engagement Work to design and implement initiatives at the right scale with the right resource that will address challenges and optimise them Co-produce plans with stakeholders and professional groups To jointly lead on the feasibility alignment of services, reviewing the demand and capacity within the trust to help design the right provision for the future To work within Trust and wider processes to get consensus, buy-in and sign off across portfolios including ensuring clear articulation of new/revised models Holds a strong understanding of mental health services, the direction of travel both locally and nationally, and able to navigate conflicting priorities in the design and development process

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated therefore have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our amazing benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and annual leave. Work life balance and supportive of a range of flexible working options Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services Wellbeing events Long service awards Cycle to work scheme Season ticket loan Staff restaurants To work flexibly across the portfolio, recognising this may mean rapid reprioritisation based on needs To cover where appropriate for other members of the team The post holder may be required to undertake additional duties appropriate to the pay band. The post may change over time to reflect the developing needs of the Trust and its services, as well as the personal development of the post holder.

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