Head of Programme

We know that being supported close to home, closer to family and friends and staff who know you, with a range of different community services and shorter lengths of stay improves the outcomes and experiences for people using specialised services. We also know that due to the way our current systems are set up, people who use specialised mental health, learning disability and autism services are too often cared for away from their home and community, and experience fragmented care in restrictive settings and may stay in hospital longer than they need to clinically.

The West Yorkshire & Barnsley ATU Provider Collaborative aims to address this fragmentation by enabling local systems to work together , with a view to reducing the number of people who are cared for out of area and creating the services the population needs through local re-investment. This will enable providers to better address health inequalities and tailor services to local needs.

NHS-led Provider Collaboratives can include providers from a range of backgrounds, including third sector providers such as in the housing sector, other NHS trusts and independent sector providers. Provider Collaboratives work closely with Integrated Care Systems and local Integrated Care Boards to support improved commissioning of services for people within the same population footprint. They will also work alongside service users, carers, and families., In line with the above a Provider Collaborative has been established for Learning Disability ATU services for the people of West Yorkshire and Barnsley. The following organisations have formed the Partnership, The Head of Programme will be responsible for working jointly with the Medical Clinical Lead and Non-Medical Clinical Lead for the West Yorkshire and Barnsley LD ATU Programme. Together they will provide the leadership, direction, and delivery support to the Programme. This is a pivotal and influential role responsible for developing a new approach to delivering specialist ATU provision across West Yorkshire and Barnsley.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.