This role will be based in Southwark Community Teams, supporting the Community Care Development and Neighbourhood alignment which covers community Teams , VCS and acute and urgent care.
The Community Care Development and Neighbourhood alignment supports SLaM’s ambitious journey to ensure its services deliver outstanding mental health care, responding to the needs of the communities it serves – across all settings. NHS England set out a clear direction on enabling inpatient quality transformation across a range of inpatient services, recognising that this needs to be done in parallel to high quality, responsive models of care in the community. The NHS Long Term Plan has a strong focus on expanding and improving the quality of community care for people with mental health problems, with the aim of ensuring more people can access community mental health services than ever before. In addition to this, the NHS England planning guidance has reiterated expectations around crisis care and use of out of area placements. SLaM is working with its partners to undertake major work on both its 24/7 crisis and acute offer, and its model of care in the community, in line with Trust strategy.
- Coordinate and deliver projects within the Directorate to achieve beneficial change in line with SLaM’s strategic objectives.
- Plan, track and support the implementation of project activities working with senior leads and senior clinicians.
- Develop and maintain clear project documentation covering the fundamental components of projects (scope, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues and quality requirements).
- Coordinate community asset mapping. Develop, maintain and manage a clear database of community assets based on findings from scoping exercise.
- Deliver timely, accurate, and comprehensive progress reports to ensure project visibility.
- Support each identified project stage ensuring all relevant milestones are attained and where necessary escalating deviations through project governance to ensure projects remain on schedule, in budget or to quality specification.
- Administration of project/programme meetings (e.g. preparation of agendas, circulation of papers, capture of actions and other outputs such as process maps) and fulfil role as overall governance and reporting lead for relevant projects/programmes.
- To support the Trust by helping to coordinate and drive delivery of community partnership projects within a defined portfolio.
- To support in liaising, developing and maintaining strong relationships with both healthcare and non-healthcare organisations including third sector voluntary and community organisations, faith groups, social care, housing, education, Citizens Advice Bureau, Job Centre, House of Parliament, advocacy groups, and community leaders across the borough with a view of enhancing service delivery through partnership working.
- To support in reaching, developing and managing partnerships from all sectors in Southwark community.
- To work with service users, carers, staff and community members, coordinating projects and promoting co-production service improvements and developments.
- To support in mapping out community assets, working with the Directorate, local authority, and third sector umbrella organisations.
- To research and identify groups, organisations and populations within the local community with whom the division should develop relationships.
- To help realise identified community partnerships opportunities with a clear focus on delivery of Long-Term Plan commitments for mental health.
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