Programme Director

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

The Mind & Body are inseparable and mental and physical health conditions are often connected. When mental and physical health problems are combined, people are less able to manage their conditions properly and their health conditions become worse.

Across King's Health Partners we are working to overcome these barriers by aspiring to treat the whole person because we know that addressing mental ill-health improves physical health outcomes and vice versa.

The post holder will provide programme leadership to KHP's Mind & Body programme delivering "whole person care" through mental and physical health services collaboration. The Programme Director will play a critical role in ensuring this approach is embedded within the KHP 2030 Strategy delivery across all areas of work.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• Internal team management
• Change management
• Core theme management
• Programme strategy lead

KHP Mind & Body Programme

This role will play a vital role in leading the work of the Mind & Body Programme across south east London and delivering the following priorities:

• Evidence and evaluate: Build a robust evidence base for mind and body interventions, evaluating and demonstrating their impact on patient experience, outcomes, access and healthcare utilisation.
• Implement: Collaborate with partners across south east London to encourage the adoption of successfully piloted interventions.
• Scale: Encourage scaling up and spreading of successful interventions across south east London and beyond, so that mind and body care becomes standard practice.

The work will be underpinned by the following enablers: the Mind & Body Improvement Network, education, engaging patients, carers, and communities, and sustainable funding.

Job responsibilities

Strategy Development and Leadership/Management:

• Lead on Mind & Body strategy in collaboration with Clinical and Academic Directors for Mind & Body and KHP senior leadership team.
• Lead on the implementation of the integrating mental and physical health priorities in the KHP 2030 Strategy (to be launched in spring 2025).
• Lead and engage with Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs), Clinical Academic Partnerships and Programmes (CAPs), local partners, local care networks and community teams on the development of the Mind & Body agenda.
• Model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes.
• Lead engagement with internal and external partners to encourage contribution and sustain commitment to the strategic Mind & Body agenda.
• Support and facilitate CAG and CAP management teams through the core Mind & Body programme.
• Lead on senior conversations about service delivery to recommend new models of care or delivery.

Programme Management and Cross-team Collaboration:

• Ensure that KHP supports the provision of high quality integrated healthcare across mental-physical healthcare settings.
• Support the implementation and embedding of the operating model for the KHP 2030 Strategy.
• Provide programme leadership, oversight and management to ensure robust programme planning.
• Facilitate and drive the development of appropriate systems and mental-physical pathways to support the Mind & Body agenda.

Communication, Engagement and Relationship Management:

• Actively lead and promote KHP Mind & Body priorities and objectives across the Partner organisations.
• Lead strategic Mind & Body engagement with external partners and stakeholders.
• Act as a champion for patients and the local population and their interests.
• Contribute to the delivery of communication and reporting material to the KHP Mind & Body programme committees.
• Act as an ambassador for KHP and its aspirations and objectives externally.
• Build on and further develop collaborative relationships with key partners in the larger health economy.

Drive the programme to secure benefits identified in the benefits plan, ensuring effective management of budgets and adherence to procurement requirements.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge or experience in health management/business systems/financial management.

Knowledge/skills

• Demonstrable success in managing change and performance and working on major change projects.

Experience

• Experience of developing strategic plans and business cases which have been shown to deliver.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £96,340 to £109,849 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS.