We are seeking a North Community Service Director to
Lead the Future of Community Mental Health
Are you a visionary leader with a passion for improving the lives of individuals living with mental health challenges? We're seeking a dynamic and experienced North Community Service Director to join our team.
About the Role:
As our North Community Service Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mental health services across Dartford Gravesham & Swanley (DGS) and Medway & Swale. Your responsibilities will include:
Strategic Leadership : Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance the delivery of community mental health services.
Operational Excellence : Oversee the day-to-day operations of a diverse range of services, including Crisis Home Treatment Teams, Early Intervention, Mental Health Together, and more.
Clinical Governance : Ensure adherence to clinical governance standards and promote best practices.
Stakeholder Engagement : Build strong relationships with healthcare partners, local authorities, and community organizations.
Change Management : Lead and manage transformative initiatives to improve service delivery.
Team Development : Mentor and inspire a talented team of operational and clinical leaders.
If you're ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is expected: To be accountable for the delivery of KMPT strategy through the development of robust business plans, the setting of relevant operational targets, and the delivery of its activities within agreed budgets and to agreed standards. To lead, with the Clinical Directors and Heads of Nursing & Quality, the effective working of governance structures, roles, and responsibilities based on multi-disciplinary approaches with an emphasis on collaborative leadership and teamwork. To ensure there are effective relationships with all Service Directors to support our work with place-based partners including third-sector organisations, local authorities, and other external stakeholders. To ensure there are mechanisms in place to involve key stakeholders in all aspects of service planning and delivery, to develop culturally sensitive services, and to ensure fair access to services irrespective of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, race, or disability. Undertake workforce redesign including formal consultations as required. Represent the organisation at stakeholder meetings/forums. As required, take a leadership role for trust-wide Programmes.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day : We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.
Our vision is where we want to be in the future : To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, this role has responsibility for the day-to-day management of all the services within the directorate through the clinical staff and managers. This includes staff management, strategy implementation, service delivery and improvement, clinical governance, financial control, and delivery.
Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.
Working at KMPT (youtube.com)
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
First Degree. Masters degree/ MBA, equivalent level postgraduate qualification or experience. Evidence of recent continued professional development aligned with the role i.e. leadership / management.
Desirable
Post graduate qualifications/ research to Doctorate level.
Experience
Essential
Expertise at Senior Management level across a range of subjects within a mental health or social care setting. An evidenced track record of success in delivery of safe, effective clinical services. Evidence of participation in corporate decision making and managing in a complex transformational change environment creating sustained improvements. Capacity to work under pressure to meet competing demands and priorities. Experience leading multi-professional and cross-organisational service development and evidence of successful delivery of agreed service objectives. Experience of senior leadership across a range of services and locations.
Desirable
Experience of working in different areas of the health and social care system.
Skills
Essential
Ability to inspire shared purpose, confidence and direction. Leads by creating a culture that is positive and supportive of wellbeing of staff and service users. Ability to develop new concepts, scan widely and think creatively. Able to work across the healthcare system, understanding complex connections, relationships and how these impact on the delivery of services. Ability to engage teams to create a climate where participation and co-operation to improve services, provide challenge and stretch for excellence and innovation are the norm.
Personal Qualities
Essential
Demonstrates commitment to continuous self-development. Commitment to team working including collaborative working and delegation. Able to express complex issues, both verbally and in writing for a range of audiences. Able to influence, persuade and negotiate. Ability to work collaboratively with central support services.
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Priority House
ME16 9QQ
Kent
ME16 9PH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
380-SS0610 #J-18808-Ljbffr
Lead the Future of Community Mental Health
Are you a visionary leader with a passion for improving the lives of individuals living with mental health challenges? We're seeking a dynamic and experienced North Community Service Director to join our team.
About the Role:
As our North Community Service Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mental health services across Dartford Gravesham & Swanley (DGS) and Medway & Swale. Your responsibilities will include:
Strategic Leadership : Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance the delivery of community mental health services.
Operational Excellence : Oversee the day-to-day operations of a diverse range of services, including Crisis Home Treatment Teams, Early Intervention, Mental Health Together, and more.
Clinical Governance : Ensure adherence to clinical governance standards and promote best practices.
Stakeholder Engagement : Build strong relationships with healthcare partners, local authorities, and community organizations.
Change Management : Lead and manage transformative initiatives to improve service delivery.
Team Development : Mentor and inspire a talented team of operational and clinical leaders.
If you're ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is expected: To be accountable for the delivery of KMPT strategy through the development of robust business plans, the setting of relevant operational targets, and the delivery of its activities within agreed budgets and to agreed standards. To lead, with the Clinical Directors and Heads of Nursing & Quality, the effective working of governance structures, roles, and responsibilities based on multi-disciplinary approaches with an emphasis on collaborative leadership and teamwork. To ensure there are effective relationships with all Service Directors to support our work with place-based partners including third-sector organisations, local authorities, and other external stakeholders. To ensure there are mechanisms in place to involve key stakeholders in all aspects of service planning and delivery, to develop culturally sensitive services, and to ensure fair access to services irrespective of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, race, or disability. Undertake workforce redesign including formal consultations as required. Represent the organisation at stakeholder meetings/forums. As required, take a leadership role for trust-wide Programmes.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day : We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.
Our vision is where we want to be in the future : To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, this role has responsibility for the day-to-day management of all the services within the directorate through the clinical staff and managers. This includes staff management, strategy implementation, service delivery and improvement, clinical governance, financial control, and delivery.
Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.
Working at KMPT (youtube.com)
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
First Degree. Masters degree/ MBA, equivalent level postgraduate qualification or experience. Evidence of recent continued professional development aligned with the role i.e. leadership / management.
Desirable
Post graduate qualifications/ research to Doctorate level.
Experience
Essential
Expertise at Senior Management level across a range of subjects within a mental health or social care setting. An evidenced track record of success in delivery of safe, effective clinical services. Evidence of participation in corporate decision making and managing in a complex transformational change environment creating sustained improvements. Capacity to work under pressure to meet competing demands and priorities. Experience leading multi-professional and cross-organisational service development and evidence of successful delivery of agreed service objectives. Experience of senior leadership across a range of services and locations.
Desirable
Experience of working in different areas of the health and social care system.
Skills
Essential
Ability to inspire shared purpose, confidence and direction. Leads by creating a culture that is positive and supportive of wellbeing of staff and service users. Ability to develop new concepts, scan widely and think creatively. Able to work across the healthcare system, understanding complex connections, relationships and how these impact on the delivery of services. Ability to engage teams to create a climate where participation and co-operation to improve services, provide challenge and stretch for excellence and innovation are the norm.
Personal Qualities
Essential
Demonstrates commitment to continuous self-development. Commitment to team working including collaborative working and delegation. Able to express complex issues, both verbally and in writing for a range of audiences. Able to influence, persuade and negotiate. Ability to work collaboratively with central support services.
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Priority House
ME16 9QQ
Kent
ME16 9PH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
380-SS0610 #J-18808-Ljbffr
