General Manager - Lewisham Adult Mental Health Services

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust ,
London, Greater London
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About the Role and Service Be a part of the internationally renowned South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by joining our hard working and energetic senior management team in the London borough of Lewisham. We are looking for 2 General Managers one for our acute and crisis services and the other for our adult community services. In this role, you will take day to day general management responsibility for the operational running of the services, providing exemplary leadership to staff and ensuring national and local targets are achieved and exceeded whilst ensuring our services meet the diverse needs of the population that we serve. You will be responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of Lewisham services within the directorate, in addition to financial performance and strategic responsibility for their development. You will be part of the Directorate's Senior Management Team and manage the Service Managers/Ward Managers working closely as a team to ensure success. For this role, we are looking for an exceptional candidate with a significant level of experience and the ability to manage a busy operational role whilst undertaking service delivery and performance responsibilities. A desire to be part of an exciting new future for one of the country's premier hospitals along with an energy and passion to drive forward change is a must for any applicant. In return you will have full support and an individual development programme to enhance your career. We encourage you to apply if you have highly developed communication skills, strong operational experience, are an imaginative thinker, and are creative and determined in your approach. You will be a credible and visible leader and an experienced manager who will be able to demonstrate effective people leadership skills together with a track record of operational management, budgetary management, leading and implementing service change. Your role will help drive transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and services. You will contribute to the development and implementation of the Directorate and Trust service strategy, in particular focusing on delivering targets and service improvements that will enhance patient care, improve the patient pathway, enhance the quality of service delivery and deliver performance targets whilst identifying potential efficiencies. About the Location The senior management team is located at Ladywell House which is on Lewisham High Street, SE13 6JZ. Community servcies are spread across the borough with acute servcies located at Lewisham Hospital. Benefits We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer. Some of our benefits are highlighted here: * Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service. * Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing. * Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes * Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars * Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites * NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website. Other benefits include: * Counselling services * Wellbeing events * Long service awards * Cycle to work scheme * Season ticket loan * Childcare vouchers * Staff restaurants We look forward to receiving your application. For further details / informal visits contact: Donna Hayward-Sussex on Donna.Hayward-Sussex@slam.nhs.uk or 07808 736247 Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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