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

Redbridge Health and Social Services is looking for an experienced Deputy Director to lead and deliver ambitious plans to redesign and transform our community health and social services to prevent, delay and reduce resident's health & care needs. The right candidate will have excellent track records in both adult health and adult social care with rapid service turnarounds, complex financial management, demand management, extensive care pathway redesign and service transformation that put prevent avoidable hospital admissions and promote earlier discharge from hospitals back into the community.

If you have the above experience and you would like a new challenge then I would urge you to book for an informal in person visit in Redbridge before you consider submitting your application.

Main duties of the job

To lead on Health and Social Care service redesign and transformation

To lead on health and Social Care efficiency saving plans

To lead on avoidable admission prevention to acute hospitals and an earlier supported discharge from acute hospitals back into the community

To lead on Redbridge Business, Performance and Transformation service

To lead on Central Reassessment and Review team.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

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.As 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

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).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to attached JD and PS.

To lead on Health and Social Care service redesign and transformation

To lead on health and Social Care efficiency saving plans

To lead on avoidable admission prevention to acute hospitals and an earlier supported discharge from acute hospitals back into the community

To lead on Redbridge Business, Performance and Transformation service

To lead on Central Reassessment and Review team.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Masters or experience

Desirable criteria

Professional Qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Number of years of experience at senior management, track record for large scale transformation, turn arounds

Desirable criteria

Clinical Audit

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Health and Social Care priorities, CQC, Key Policies, Leadership

Desirable criteria

Commissioning and national health & social care policies

Skills

Essential criteria

Communication, partnership, values, decision making, conflict management, evaluation, Continuous improvements, inspire trust at SU & senior management, perform well under pressure,

Desirable criteria

Build alliances, empower to build culture of achievement,

other

Essential criteria

Participative and supportive management style, stamina & resilience

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.