Overview
In this role you lead operational delivery for MHST expansion, shaping new teams across Essex. You will work with senior MHST leaders to recruit, mobilise and onboard staff, ensuring safe, effective collaboration with schools and children’s services. You drive scalable service development and sustainable teams while maintaining momentum through change. Your work supports EMHP trainees and onboarding to strengthen the Essex MHST programme, aligning with the trust’s mission.
Responsibilities
- Recruitment and workforce mobilisation
- HR and people management processes
- Onboarding and induction of new staff
- Supporting staff through periods of growth and change
- Operational and workforce planning
- Complex project management
- Building high-performing teams
- Support for EMHP trainees and onboarding of new staff
- Welcoming new schools and onboarding education settings
- Partnership work with education, primary care, local authorities and children’s services
Key requirements
- Strong operational leadership and people management
- Experience with recruitment, HR processes and workforce planning
- Experience managing substantial service development or change
- Project management and mobilisation skills
- Budget and performance management
- Relationship-building across professional boundaries
- Supportive leadership style with developing staff
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Understanding of mental health provision in schools and children’s mental health system
- Ability to maintain momentum amid competing priorities
- Professionally registered, post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner or graduate-qualified healthcare professional
- Management experience
- enthusiastic
- organised
- visible leadership
- Complex project management
- Workforce planning and mobilisation
- Staff onboarding and induction
MHST Operational Manager - North Locality in Essex employer: National Health Service
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and collaborative work environment for healthcare professionals in North Wales. With a commitment to employee development and a focus on compassionate care, staff have access to continuous professional development opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact in both acute and community paediatrics. The Health Board's integrated approach ensures that employees are part of a dynamic team dedicated to improving health outcomes for the local population.
