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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

You will provide visible and accessible leadership across the service, supporting a diverse workforce of clinical and non-clinical staff. You will be responsible for translating strategic and operational priorities into clear plans, maintaining effective governance, and ensuring that the service delivers against its contractual, quality, performance, and financial requirements.

Working collaboratively with clinical leaders and senior managers, you will contribute to business planning, service transformation, and the development of innovative and sustainable models of care. You will also build strong relationships with GPs, primary care teams, commissioners, specialist mental health services, social care, employment services, and voluntary-sector partners.

Key areas of responsibility will include:

• Providing effective operational leadership and management for Milton Keynes Talking Therapies.
• Leading and supporting a multidisciplinary workforce, promoting staff wellbeing, development, engagement, and high performance.
• Monitoring activity, outcomes, waiting times, and other contractual and quality indicators.
• Analysing performance and financial information and developing improvement plans where required.
• Managing the service’s allocated financial resources, budget position, forecasting, and efficiency requirements.
• Ensuring robust arrangements for clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management, audit, and quality assurance.
• Overseeing recruitment, retention, appraisal, supervision, training, and other workforce processes.
• Leading service improvement and change projects within agreed timescales and resources.
• Ensuring that complaints, incidents, and identified risks are thoroughly investigated and that resulting actions are implemented.
• Promoting accessible, responsive, and non-stigmatising services that reflect local needs.
• Representing the service at internal and external meetings.
• Deputising for the Service Manager when required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
• Management qualification or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level.
• Full driving license and use of a car for business purposes.

Desirable criteria

• Degree

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing health/social care services.
• Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings, and financial recovery plans.
• Experience of modernising services without additional resources.
• Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to present information clearly.
• An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Able to hold professionals and peers to account.
• An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.