This is an operational leadership post within the Great Yarmouth and Waveney locality of Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust, sitting on the locality leadership team. The post holder drives performance across crisis pathways for children and young people, adults, older people and community teams, and improves flow through inpatient wards while keeping quality high. The role works across partners including James Parget University Hospital and EEAST, and alongside the locality's nursing and medical directors. Mental health operations experience is essential for this post.
What the job involves
- Provide operational leadership across core services in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney locality
- Drive improved performance across crisis pathways for children and young people, adults, older persons and community teams
- Improve flow through inpatient wards while maintaining a high quality of service
- Work closely with Associate Directors of Nursing and Associate Medical Directors to deliver high quality care in locality services
- Provide professional leadership to operational colleagues across the locality
- Work with system partners including James Parget University Hospital and EEAST, and with teams across the Trust
- Demonstrate supportive and compassionate leadership as part of the locality leadership team
- Embed accountability and a focus on improvement across the locality
- Promote a culture of learning and openness
- Ensure clinical staff have the knowledge, capability, systems and support to deliver evidence based care
- Embed lessons learned in practice to improve patient experience
Qualifications
- Degree level education supplemented by postgraduate study and management or clinical experience to master's degree level or equivalent
Experience
- Recent achievement record within a large, complex, mental health NHS environment
- Recent experience of leading and managing transformational change and service redesign, including staff consultation and engagement
- Previous experience working in a mental health operations setting
Nice to have
- Other professional qualifications relevant to the role
- Engaging with appropriate stakeholders to shape delivery of healthcare services
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
