Deputy Director Community Mental Health

Overview

In this role you will lead and shape the Brent community mental health agenda, overseeing operational management across CMHT, EIS and the Wellbeing clinic. You will act as the key ambassador for mental health services in dealings with public, statutory and voluntary partners, driving collaboration and co-production. You will be part of the Brent Management team, guiding strategic delivery and partnership work to improve community care. This is a mission-critical, system-wide leadership role with a focus on delivering care closer to home.

Responsibilities

• Oversee delivery of community mental health services to ensure person-centred, high-quality and clinically safe care within the local community
• Translate NHS Long Term Plan and national policies into practical community care improvements to reduce avoidable admissions
• Lead development of a more needs-led, integrated community support approach
• Ensure clinical safety and effectiveness through risk assessment and evidence-based practice
• Monitor outcomes and user/carer experience to ensure clinical effectiveness
• Maintain a performance culture across staff, teams, and directorate
• Foster innovation, quality and service improvement within the services overseen
• Lead complex strategic work to articulate and implement the trust’s community mental health vision
• Engage with internal and external partners, service users and carers in meetings as an ambassador for the Trust
• Identify gaps with teams, test innovative solutions, and spread good practice across the Trust
• Collaborate with transformation colleagues to advocate for change and manage barriers
• Involve service users, carers and community organisations in service development and delivery
• Represent the organisation in key strategic planning bodies at Trust, ICB and Local Authority levels
• Maintain partnerships with providers and stakeholders to achieve outcomes under NHS Long Term Plan

Key requirements

• Master in health or social care
• Senior management qualification in leadership, policy, strategy, business management or relevant field
• Experience managing learning disabilities and/or ASD services at middle management level
• Proven leadership of a sector or borough multidisciplinary team across multiple sites
• Experience in policy development and strategic planning leading to change
• Successful interagency partnership experience (primary care, local authority, voluntary sector)
• Ability to negotiate complex contracts with senior management approval
• Experience within statutory/regulatory frameworks for mental health and social care
• Experience developing programmes to improve user and carer involvement
• Excellent presentation skills
• Experience managing a diverse workforce
• Experience organizing and chairing steering groups

• Strong communication and relationship-building
• Negotiation and influencing
• Strategic thinking and decision making
• Budget/financial management
• Risk assessment and management planning
• Outcome measurement and service-user experience monitoring

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