Deputy Director Southwark

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Deputy Director in the Southwark Directorate, In this role, you will take day to day responsibility for the operational running of multiple services, providing exemplary leadership to staff and ensuring national and local targets are achieved and exceeded whilst ensuring our services meet the diverse needs of the population that we serve.

You will be responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of patient services within the directorate, in addition to financial performance and strategic responsibility for their development. You will be part of the Directorate's Senior Leadership Team and have line management responsibilities for the General Managers and Clinical Service Leads, working closely as a team to ensure success.

You will be a motivated leader, who can provide operational leadership and play a key role in working with the Directorate Senior Leadership Team (SLT) in the shaping and delivery of our services.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with significant service-level general management experience and the ability to manage a busy operational role whilst undertaking Trust-wide projects, service delivery and performance responsibilities.

We encourage you to apply if you have highly developed communication skills, are an imaginative and strategic thinker, and are creative and determined in your approach. You will be a credible, visible leader and an experienced senior manager who will be able to demonstrate effective people leadership skills together with a track record of operational management, budgetary management and implementing service development and improvements. Your role will help drive transformation as well as financial sustainability in planning, commissioning and running services. You will contribute to the development and implementation of the Directorate and Trust strategies, focusing on delivering targets and service improvements that will enhance patient care, improve the patient pathway, enhance the quality of service delivery and deliver performance targets whilst identifying potential efficiencies.

(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.