Job summary
Provide broad strategic leadership and operationally lead multiple patient-centred Mental Health Services in Powys. This role includes direct responsibility for the following services:

• Community Mental Health Teams, Adult and Older Adult, Dementia Home Treatment Teams, Memory Assessment Service, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams, Older adult in-patient units, Adult acute mental health in-patient unit, Neurodiversity/Integrated Autism Service, Suicide and Self Harm Prevention and Postvention, Specialist Perinatal.
• Work as a member of the PTHB Mental Health Department's Senior Management Team, strategically planning sustainable models of care whilst ensuring compliance with mental health legislation.
• Manage the delivery of highly effective mental health clinical services, overseeing budgets and developing contingency plans to always maintain safe services.

Main duties of the job
Leadership and Management

• Responsible for the safe and effective delivery of operational mental health services - including community mental health and in-patient services.
• Line-manage operational managers for mental health services and ensure that effective clinical and operational systems are in place to ensure safety and continuity of care to patients.

• Strategically contribute to planning for sustainable models of care, leading collaborative approaches for service design with all PTHB services and partner organisations with responsibility for shaping future Mental Health Services in line with Better Together and the National Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-35.
• Work with the senior managers for mental health to motivate and ensure clinical teams provide safe, effective, modern mental health services. Directly line manager for 9 roles including service managers and strategy managers.
• Ensure the appropriate operational, professional, strategic, managerial and financial arrangements are in place for operational mental health services.

About us
Being the smallest Heath Board in Wales means that you won't get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.

As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We're also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy 'life work' balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: Apply through our website.

Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential

• Relevant professional discipline or evidenced equivalent experience in similar role
• Registration with a clinical professional body
• Evidence of CPD
• Extensive knowledge of safety and quality systems and processes and translating into practice
• Knowledge of NHS operational and strategic service issues in health and social care
• Up-to-date knowledge of current legislation, guidance and policy initiatives which impact on mental health services
• Highly specialised theoretical and practical expertise in relevant profession
• Sound understanding of clinical governance and risk
• Management or leadership qualification

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of senior management experience
• Specialist skills relevant to area of service
• Managing/supervising a diverse team of healthcare professionals
• Assessing service performance in integrated services
• Working with Welsh Government policy development
• Initiating, managing and implementing change successfully
• Staff leadership and management, staff development and performance appraisal
• Actively engaging service users and carers in service delivery and planning
• Previous personal responsibility for delivering major service change programmes

Skills and Attributes
Essential

• A highly strategic thinker with ability to influence at all levels with good negotiation skills
• Analyse and interpret highly complex information from a variety of sources, including financial and service performance information
• Evaluate evidence and research for new service models
• Engage and build positive relationships with clinical teams, other agencies, senior managers, external advisors and stakeholders
• Initiate and conduct option appraisal, decision-making and problem-solving
• Develop strategic service business plans involving uncertainty and impact across PTHB
• IT skills - Microsoft Office including Word, MS Project and PowerPoint
• Plan and prioritise work flexibly and meet deadlines
• Interpret legislation and national guidance
• Manage direct communication of sensitive and complex information with public communities, in an emotive atmosphere
• Manage conflict and challenges effectively and constructively and be persuasive
• Persist when encountering resistance and opposition using tact and diplomacy
• Strong verbal, numeric and written communication skills
• Lead a team, motivate staff and create environment for high-performance team
• Absorb and understand issues quickly

Desirable

• Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn

Other
Essential

• Objectivity, drive and commitment in achieving high standards and delivery
• Adaptability, decisiveness and ability to exercise initiative
• Good teamwork, flexibility and professional, high-level of professional behaviour
• Develop and maintain strong relationships within the multi-agency NHS and broader stakeholder environment
• Provide feedback in a positive, practical and constructive way
• Ability to travel within the geographical area
• Manage the emotional and mental demands of the roles encompassed by the post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).