Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Nationally, mental health services are facing the most significant transformation of recent times, during an exceptional period of time in history. Significant growth and transformation of the mental health workforce is needed to meet the requirements of the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP).

In response to this, funding has been secured to develop a small dedicated workforce planning team working to support both Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) and the wider Integrated Care System (ICS) to deliver the workforce challenge.

The newly formed team will be led by the Head of Mental Health Workforce Planning, and supported by several critical roles; one of which being the New Roles Lead post. In this role, you can expect to take the lead in exploring creative alternatives to delivering mental health services - through non-NHS models of delivery, working closely with independent providers to generate proposals and business cases for implementation.

You'll also work together with the Workforce Intelligence and Reporting Lead to design, develop, monitor and manage a central database of new roles available and training opportunities across the system.

Interested?!

Main duties of the job

As the New Roles Lead, you will have lead responsibility for scoping, raising awareness and engaging the Trust and wider Integrated Care System to adopt and embed new roles within Mental Health services. Working in collaboration with senior system partners you will ensure that sound supporting infrastructures are in place to enable early and safe adoption of new roles and ways of working.

Because this is a new team, you'll be instrumental in developing the team strategy, vision, and goals together with the operational aspects of the service. You won't be the only new team member either - we all are. In addition, you'll have opportunities to develop both professionally and personally.

Another key element of this role will involve supporting the Trust and ICS in the commissioning of training courses offered through a variety of sources e.g. Higher Education Institutes (HEI's) and Further Education (FE) colleges, working together with local, regional and national agencies to maximise opportunities through economies of scale and collaborative approaches which extend within and outside of the Sussex ICS footprint.

Working for our organisation

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire as part of the wider Sussex Health and Care Partnership (which is sometimes called the 'system' or Integrated Care System (ICS))

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
• Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We need our New Roles Lead to have a 'can do' approach and attitude.

Working as a proactive team member, who regularly contributes to the teams shared values, vision and goals is an essential requirement to be successful in this role. You'll be someone who values other people, is kind and familiar with the challenges of working in the health and social care system and is comfortable working with a degree of ambiguity.

Amongst other skills, you'll have experience leading and undertaking formal organisational and structural change, demonstrating a natural ability to influence and persuade colleagues wherever they sit within the system hierarchy.

You'll also be able to prepare, produce and present concise, yet insightful communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders; which supports the vision and objectives of the workforce planning team across all parts of the system. Agility of mind is essential, as is the capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes.

Ideally, we would like you to work full time but are willing to work flexibly with you in relation hours and patterns of work. You might already be working in the system and 'have itchy feet' - come and talk to us as we'd be interested in offering a secondment opportunity.

Whatever your current situation if the above describes you, call us to find out more!

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Specialist workforce or change management accreditation or equivalent experience

Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria

• leading and undertaking formal organisational/structural change
• demonstrable knowledge and understanding in relation to new roles relating to Mental Health, combined with an understanding of existing roles within the Integrated Care System
• experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.