Deputy Service Director

ELFT Forensic Service
Band 8d
Full-time post 37.5 hours per week, Monday 9am to Friday 5pm
Substantive post
For more information, please contact Lawford Clough, Service Director, for more information on 07970 984832 or at l.clough@nhs.net
Are you a senior leader looking to take the next step in your career? We may have the perfect opportunity for you!
We are looking for an experienced and driven senior leader to join a friendly senior leadership group as Deputy Service Director in ELFT’s Forensic Service.
The Forensic Directorate currently provides secure inpatient services to almost 200 patients with mental illness, learning disability and/ or autism and provides specialist outreach support and supervision to a number of complex patients in the community. The Directorate serves an East London catchment area which encompasses the area served by the East London Foundation Trust and that of North East London Mental Health Trust, both of which are providers within the North London Forensic Provider Collaborative. The Directorate also provides services for women and men on the national Offender Personality Disorder Pathway, in the community and in a specialist psychologically-informed service at HMP Brixton, as part of the London Pathways Partnership.
You will have a proven track record as someone who is responsive, efficient and has a “can do” attitude – someone who enjoys getting things done!
Even more importantly, you will have the right values needed to work in a large service for service users with mental illness, learning disability and/ or autism, and will be committed to growing a service that exemplifies compassion, equity and opportunity, in relation to working both with service users and with colleagues. As a service, we are extremely proud of our track record of working with service users in a spirit of true co-production, and within this role you would be overseeing our growing People Participation Team.
You would be working as a key member of the Directorate Management Team, deputising for the Service Director when required. You would be overseeing areas of the service that drive the therapeutic and recovery-focussed aspects of the service, so that patients have a clear route to discharge, and you would lead on the ongoing development of community services. You would be a member of our provider collaborative’s Learning Disability and Autism Clinical Pathway Group and would chair the group on a sessional basis.
You will possess excellent organisational skills and be able to lead on bids for new services and mobilise these. You will also be a quick but considered thinker, who is able to flex between dealing with emerging crises and working towards the service’s long-term aspirations. You will be someone who excels in establishing and developing excellent working relationships with service users, colleagues, partner agencies and stakeholders, and you will be skilled at coordinating moving parts and dealing with ambiguity and nuance.
The role is extremely busy and challenging but hugely enjoyable and fun, and you will be made to feel very welcome!
If this sounds like the job for you, please contact Lawford Clough, Service Director, for more information on 07970 984832 or at l.clough@nhs.net