Clinical Transformation Lead 0-18years Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma-informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all, including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

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Job Overview

We are looking for a Clinical Transformation Lead to lead a two-year transformation of the delivery of services to all children and young people aged 0-18 years presenting with ASC and ADHD needs across North Central London. This is a unique and exciting opportunity combining clinical and transformation leadership working with multiple providers and systems partners.

Main Duties of the Job

In this role, you will provide Clinical Transformation Leadership to the Programme and actively work with Children and Young People’s Neurodevelopmental Conditions Pathway Leads Teams 0-18 in NCL to deliver the ambitions of the Program.

You will also be expected to lead and support other internal and external Systems Partners across North Central London ICS, ensuring engagement in the Programme at the right level to support the programme delivery plans.

You will provide appropriate clinical input as a subject matter expert in Neurodevelopmental Conditions in children and young people with co-occurring conditions and ensure the Programme is represented in external facing NCL System Meetings; 0-18 years Programme Boards; Clinical Networks and Children’s Health Steering Committees.

You will work with multi-professional teams and agencies of experienced practitioners with a variety of professional backgrounds, all of whom have chosen Neurodevelopmental Conditions as a specialist area of expertise.

You will lead a priority Programme with significant investment and expectations, and therefore it is more important than ever to deliver the programme aims across the ICS, for the benefit of children, young people, and their families.

Working for Our Organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent internal staff network.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

Provider Clinical Transformation Leadership and deliver programme aims:

• To standardise neurodevelopmental pathway delivered by a team of highly skilled clinicians from a range of professions who can assess and diagnose neurodevelopmental disorders in a timely and efficient manner.
• To significantly reduce and manage the waiting lists for diagnostic assessment of ADHD & Autism in line with NICE guidance (QS51).
• To collaborate between providers to support the changes needed to ensure that standardisation of service offer and age cohorts served can be implemented during 25/26.
• To move towards a system-wide needs-led approach to the management of neurodiversity, engaging all key stakeholders in that delivery.

The suitable candidate will be an excellent communicator with clinical, academic, and staff groups at all levels and have good organisational skills to develop and maintain action plans to support your projects.

This fixed-term/secondment opportunity is available as a job-share, and we would welcome a flexible approach.

Person Specification

Professional Registration (Clinical)

Essential Criteria

• Substantial Clinical Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Educated to Master’s Degree Level or Equivalent Experience

Essential Criteria

• Substantial Clinical Practice in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Pathways.

Demonstrable Experience of Transformation Leadership

Essential Criteria

• Or equivalent – taking account of relevant clinical experience.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents, eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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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

• Clinical Transformation Lead 0-18 years-NCL-wide Neurodevelopmental Conditions Pathways (PDF, 355.7KB)
• NLFT Functional Requirements (PDF, 536.5KB)

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