Operations Lead - Trust Wide Psychology

Job summary

The psychology provision sits in the Chief Medical Officer portfolio and provides professional and clinical oversight for psychological services and professionals across the Trust. Working closely with CPPO, psychological leadership across each Division and the central psychology team, the postholder will be required to help design, lead and oversee the delivery of key aims and objectives of the Trust wide psychological provisions in line with the Trusts quadruple aims and broader strategy.

The successful candidate will be responsible for effective and efficient operational support within the CMO Psychology profile. The development of required management systems to support development and oversight of key Trust wide delivery plans. Provide support for wider psychological professional workforce as needed by the CPPO.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for effective and efficient operational support within the CMO Psychology profile.In conjunction with team develop strategic plans and documents to support delivery of key workstreams.Develop required management systems to support development and oversight of key Trust wide delivery plans.Delivery of timely, multiple projects from formulation of plans through to implementation and monitoring. Modifying, formulating and changing plans.Provide support for wider psychological professional workforce as needed by CPPO.Engagement with key stakeholders in development of service redesign and business development activities.Support CMO psychology team in development and implementation of effective and, where appropriate, integrated governance and reporting, to reflect agreed models of care.Co-ordinate and draft papers to go to relevant Trust and external meetings as required by the CPPO.Contribute to the development of the CMO psychology plans through the setting and monitoring of targets and objectives; ensuring alignment to Trust strategic plans, reporting of targets achieved.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Specialist Masters degree level in relevant speciality or equivalent qualification, experience and knowledge.
• Knowledge of a range of specific project/programme areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training.
• Project/Programme management training / qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of leading in a similarly complex environment, across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of delivering programmes to scope, budget and time.
• Experience of working with teams to achieve objectives and performance targets.
• Experience of devising and implementing projects.
• Experience of working in mental health settings.
• Experience of delivering complex services or work programmes at scale and pace, with innovative design approaches proven through outcome delivery.
• Ability to manage a large workload and effectively prioritise across competing agendas and stakeholders.
• Proven leadership skills in a highly complex environment.
• Research skills, including accessing and using benchmarking data.
• Able to analyse complex information from multiple sources and present this in a variety of mediums to different audiences to inform policy and practice.
• Ability to afford assurance of quality and safety of services for programme of delivery.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.
• Professional leadership through relevant qualification and experience of staff groups, ensuring compliance with relevant workforce governance standards.
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively with stakeholders, patients, public and media as required, where the information may be complex and/or barriers to understanding.
• Able to work autonomously.
• Understanding of professional leadership, NHS governance and development standards.
• Knowledge of area to be managed including national and local priorities, best practice, commissioning landscape, risks and issues.

Desirable

• Experience of working in psychological services.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to engage service users in the decisions affecting them and the services they receive.