The current service director for Children and Young People’s Services leaves at the end of March 2025, offering a fantastic opportunity for someone new to provide the strategic and operational leadership for the Children and Young People’s Directorate. The post holder will be responsible for the safe delivery of effective mental health, physical health and public health services to this population. You will be responsible for a budget of £46 million and 700 staff including nursing, medical, psychological therapies, allied health professionals and staff in management and support roles, as well as responsibility for a number of sub-contracts.

You will be an excellent, compassionate leader who will be passionate about ensuring that our Oxleas values – We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen and We Care – are felt throughout the Directorate. You will be a key part of the Trust Executive, and you will lead on ensuring that colleagues in your services, which are diverse and dispersed, feel a strong sense of being part of the Oxleas family.

We believe that the variety and diversity of personal experience and the combination of different backgrounds in our Executive Team is as important to understanding and delivering quality to patients as our clinical and professional qualifications. So, we are interested in where your understanding of the importance of diversity comes from and how you will use this to contribute to both the Executive and the Directorate team that you manage.

We are committed to advocating for children and working in partnership to achieve the best we can for them and their families. The CYP Directorate also delivers sexual health services and community gynaecology. A central part of your role will involve working with our external partners in Education, Health and Social Care across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley and with our partners in the South London Mental Health Partnership (SLP). We also have strong partnership links with voluntary, community and social enterprise providers which are key to us delivering our services across the Boroughs.

The Directorate services are delivered from locations across the three boroughs and therefore strong leadership and strategic thinking are key to this role together with an ability to work flexibly across the demands of the different systems and the challenges each of them has.

As a member of the Trust Executive, you will play an important role in shaping the future for our patients and in continuing to make it one of the best places to work for our staff.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Iain Dimond Job title: Chief Operating Officer Email address: iain.dimond@nhs.net Telephone number: 01322 625034

If you would like an informal conversation about the role with Iain Dimond, Chief Operating Officer, please contact Rhiannon Adams on 01322 625034 or email Rhiannon.adams@nhs.net.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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