Associate Director Mental Health Learning Disabilities and Autism

The Associate Director MHDLA plays a key role in developing, improving and delivering services across the ICS, working in conjunction with system partners. The teams aim is to work collaboratively with local partners and communities to improve health outcomes, tackling health inequalities, enhancing productivity and value for money, and contributing to broader economic and social development.

The role will lead on delivery of this approach, working with the team to support a culture of collaborative innovation and integration across partners, including residents. The primary purpose of the role is to ensure that the MHLDA programme delivers on the purpose above. This includes:

Working with residents, service providers, local borough-based partnerships and primary care

networks, to determine our future strategy and approach;

Developing a five-year plan for the programme;

Working strategically and collaboratively as part of a wider senior team to plan, design, transform and monitor changes to services;

Adopting a methodical approach to Quality Improvement through strategic change that ensures safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable care for patients, service users and staff

Integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders; and

MHLDA pathways are effective, efficient and equitable and that services are comprehensive and not duplicative, The Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism (MHLDA) programme team works closely with NWLs borough teams and providers across North West London, driving transformation and strategic commissioning to ensure that mental health, learning disability and autism services meet the needs of our population. The team ensures that its work supports the four objectives of the ICS by co-ordinating and supporting collaborative working to ensure transformation focuses on end to end care pathways, provides assurance that services are safe, high quality and efficient, and ensures this is underpinned by effective commissioning.

NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.

The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs and voluntary and community organisations we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services and community care.

Working for us, you can help ensure that our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them and assist them take greater care of their own health to ensure they live longer, healthier lives.