Specialty Development Manager - Adult Mental Health

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a registered professional to join the adult mental health clinical network leadership as Specialty Development Manager for Adult Mental Health, working alongside the Adult Mental Health Specialty Clinical Director and other specialty networks.
The Clinical Network - Adult Mental Health, as a collective leadership group, sets the clinical standards that support the delivery of high-quality care. On an ongoing basis they review the current evidence base, feedback, guidelines, and initiatives to keep the Trust Clinical Journey's objectives and approach up to date.
The Adult Mental Health Specialty Development Manager will play a pivotal role alongside the Adult Mental Health Specialty Clinical Director in providing trust wide leadership delivering the networks specialty specific annual planned which supports the implementation of Our Journey to Change delivery plans., Make significant contributions to the redesign of services and processes to improve patient care, ensuring patient pathways are effective, efficient, and recovery focused. Leading, participating and facilitating in various events and structures to ensure service change is effective in improving patient care and experience and practice.
Contribute to the strategic development of the Specialty's Clinical Services, to include, supporting the Senior Clinical Director with the interface between the Quality Assurance Committee, Quality Assurance and Improvement Group, Care Group Risk Group and Care Group Board and the individual service work streams within the Specialty. Develop and maintain learning networks both internally and externally to ensure we realise the benefits of organisational learning and sharing best practice from within our Trust. Consider the need and priorities of the Specialty when developing the network programme and adopting a variety of techniques to best engage staff and service users within these networks to maximum benefit.
Play a key role in the facilitation and promotion of research and development within the Specialty, in line with the Trust's R&D Strategy, including supporting participant recruitment to National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Portfolio studies. This role will have particular emphasis on those research activities relating to service development.

Working for our organisation
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care -our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Role & Responsibilities:
+ Patient / Client Care
+ Administrative Duties
+ Analysis and Judgement Skills
+ Planning and Organisation
+ Responsibility for information
+ Policy Development
+ Service Development Responsibilities/Project management
+ Responsibility for financial resources
+ Responsibility for physical resources / estates / delivery of hotel
services
+ People management, training and development
+ Facilitate Learning and Sharing of experience / expertise
+ Involvement in research, audit and evaluation
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
If the contract type on the vacancy states 'Fixed Term' this would mean the vacancy is being advertised to address a temporary need for the duration stipulated on the advert, however, in the event that permanent funding is secured for the post the successful applicant will be confirmed in post on a permanent basis.
Internal applicants must ensure that prior to applying they have agreement from their current line manager that they can be released on a secondment basis.
We are aware that Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is increasingly being used to generate responses for application forms. Applications for this role should be written by the applicant and if, during shortlisting, a Recruiting Manager believes AI has been used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability., TEWV encourages and supports all staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the protection of staff, service users and visitors to the Trust from second hand smoke and currently operates a no smoking policy which ensures all buildings and grounds are smoke free.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from individuals who have experience of mental ill health or learning disabilities. Our service users and carers tell us our staff should be consistently concerned with maintaining and improving care with pride, empathy and compassion.
This job advert may close as soon as sufficient suitable applications have been received. If interested please apply for this post as soon as possible.
In order for your application to be successfully processed we will require references from your current and previous employer(s) which must cover a minimum period of three years. Please ensure that the reference section of your application is completed appropriately giving the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current and previous line manager(s). If this section is not fully completed your application may not be processed.
If your application is successful, the information you give on your application form will be used to create and be retained on your electronic staff record and to provide access to core Trust systems.
Please note that if the post you are applying for requires a DBS check, you will be required to also subscribe to the DBS Update Service, if successful, and thereafter renew your subscription each year. The Trust will reimburse the subscription fee.

NHS AfC: Band 8b
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care -our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.