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Senior Children & Young People's Programme & Development Manager

Employer
NHS England Apprenticeships
Location
Swindon
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
19 May 2022

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Job summary

The main purpose of the Senior Children and Young People's (CYP) Programme and Development Manager is to provide strategic and operational leadership to children and young people's services (including child and adolescent mental health) and to ensure delivery of high-quality provision, outcomes, and return on investment across for our Swindon population.

Main duties of the job

Drive forward whole system transformation within the Swindon ICA to ensure coherence across the portfolio, from needs assessment, service design, procurement, performance management and outcome measurement in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.

Ensure delivery and alignment of the CYP and CAMHS elements of the BSW ICS Operational Plan are embedded within the Swindon ICA.

Work in partnership with colleagues in Swindon Borough Council and BSW ICS to deliver transformation and service improvements associated with the Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) agenda.

About us

Work with partners across Swindon ICA and BSW ICS to lead the development and delivery of a locality CYP strategy, ensuring the full engagement of all stakeholders in the delivery of national policy and guidelines and local priorities, ensuring people with lived experience are engaged in co-production at all times.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Work with partners in Swindon and in the BSW ICS to develop, promote and manage the implementation/delivery of iThrive models of integrated, holistic care.

Fully engage in the strategic and operational developments across the Swindon ICA and BSW ICS and ensure local developments connect to maximise resources to meet the mental health needs of children and young people through the implementation of the review of CAMHS/TAMHs services in Swindon.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy, both nationally and as it relates to the Swindon ICA and appreciate the implications of this on engagement Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England & Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations Must have an understanding of integrated services, early intervention and holistic models of care. Member of any relevant professional body


Skills

Essential

  • sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups. Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts. Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others


Analytical

Essential

  • Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery. Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution - including interpretation of information relating to local health need and translating into action


Planning Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time. Ability to translate national policy into local, relevant long term plans Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances. Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects


Management Skills

Essential

  • Skills for direct line management Skills and job management. Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers and approaches to enable others to support Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders including ensuring patient and public engagement in service planning and delivery Abilities for financial and staff management Evidence of service transformation and redesign experience, aligning with national and local policy as well as financial planning


Physical Skills

Essential

  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.


Autonomy

Essential

  • Manages Self and Team within the constraints of NHS strategic plan. Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary. Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales Interpreting national policy for implementation


Equality and Diversity

Essential

  • Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda. Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity.


Financial and Physical Resources

Essential

  • Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes


Other

Essential

  • An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust through demonstration of honesty and integrity whilst promoting organisational values Used to working in a busy environment Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change Commitment to continuing professional development. Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop Self-motivated Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.


Employer details

Employer name

Banes, Swindon and Wiltshire CCG

Address

Swindon CCG Pierre Simonet Building

Swindon

SN25 4DL

Employer's website

https://www.bswccg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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