South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Strategy Manager
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Strategy Manager
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Strategy Manager to join our Strategy and Transformation Directorate. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering the Trust’s strategic priorities, supporting organisation-wide planning, and leading high-profile projects that improve outcomes for our communities. Working closely with senior leaders, partners, and people with lived experience, you will help ensure we are inclusive, and responsive to the changing NHS landscape.
We are looking for someone who has proven experience in the NHS (or similar environment) and strong project management expertise. Someone who can build effective relationships and influence at senior levels. The post-holder must be confident analysing complex information and translating it into clear strategic advice, be an excellent communicator, have strong written and interpersonal skills, and a collaborative approach. This is a rewarding role for someone passionate about improving mental health services, offering the chance to develop your career within a leading Trust known for innovation, research, and high-quality care.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Please Note
This post may close earlier than the advertised date if a high volume of applications is received.
Your supporting statement must clearly demonstrate how you meet the shortlisting criteria outlined in the person specification.
Key Duties Will Include
- Provide strategy planning expertise and leadership across the Trust: Designing, implementing, and overseeing effective processes for strategic planning, strategic prioritisation and resource allocation, liaising with functional and subject matter experts.
- Lead the project management of Trust-wide Strategy development and annual strategic planning for the Trust.
- Lead engagement and partnership work with service users, carers, and community representatives using a range of involvement methods to ensure their voices are central to the Trust’s strategic work.
- Maintain awareness of the external NHS environment by assessing new policies and guidance and advising the Trust of impact and actions required.
- Act as part of a team, seeking out intelligence and disseminating important, appropriate, and required information.
We provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK and aim to be a leader in improving health and wellbeing – locally, nationally, and globally.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
We serve a local population of 1.3 million people in south London, as well as specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.
Each year we provide inpatient care for over 5,000 people, and treat more than 40,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Croydon.
Our 5 Commitments
As a Trust, we are dedicated to delivering care according to our five key commitments:
- I will be caring, kind, and polite
- I will be prompt and value your time
- I will take time to listen to you
- I will be honest and direct with you
- I will do what I say I am going to do
These commitments sit alongside our values: Kindness, Respect, Together. We have created a framework to set out the behaviours we want to see under each of these values and the behaviours that our service users and their carers should hold us accountable to.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Lucy Canning
- Job title: Deputy Chief Strategy Officer
- Email address: Lucy.Canning@slam.nhs.uk
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location