This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health professional who is passionate about improving outcomes for people experiencing mental health challenges and is looking to further develop their leadership, management, and strategic capabilities.
We are seeking a dynamic mental health professional with substantial clinical experience across both secondary mental health services and primary care settings.
As part of a central leadership team, you will play a key role in the ongoing development and transformation of Enhanced Primary Care Mental Health Services across Mid and North Hampshire. Working closely with the Primary Care Mental Health Transformation Manager, you will contribute to the development and embedding of innovative models of care, strengthening multidisciplinary and multi-agency working across the system. The role requires building effective partnerships with Primary Care Networks, secondary care services, and voluntary and community sector organisations to deliver integrated, trauma-informed, and recovery-focused services that improve patient outcomes and experiences.
Please note this is a part time (30 hrs per week) and can be offered to HIOWH NHS FT employees as a 12 month secondment or as a12 month fixed term contract to external Trust applicants
You will provide expert clinical leadership, supporting clinical governance, quality improvement, and service development, while also undertaking agreed line management responsibilities, including supporting staff performance, professional development, and wellbeing.
This role offers a unique opportunity to influence system-wide transformation and contribute to the future direction of community mental health services across Mid and North Hampshire. It is particularly suited to an individual who is motivated by service development, partnership working, and leading change across organisational boundaries while keeping the needs of patients and communities at the centre of everything they do.
Please note: This post is 30 hours per week, with hours required to be worked across a minimum of four days per week, including Thursdays and preferably Fridays.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Katherine Sault
katherine.Sault1@nhs.net
07867543892
Agenda for Change
Band 7
Fixed Term
12 Month(s)
Part-Time
348-MNH-12459
Parklands House London Road Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 4AP
This vacancy is closed to applications.