Job summary
Please note this position is advertised as an opportunity for either a Consultant Grade (1.5 PAs) or an Agenda for Change Grade (0.15 WTE Band 8c) to encompass the prospect of applications from differing professional backgrounds.
The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) is recruiting Perinatal Workstream Lead - Health Inequalities and Access Workstream Lead to support the strategic development of the South London Perinatal Provider Collaborative (PC). These newly created leadership roles will drive delivery of the Collaborative's ambitious priorities to improve access, reduce health inequalities, strengthen quality and outcomes, and advance research, innovation and education across perinatal mental health services.
As part of a collaborative leadership team, Workstream Leads will work closely with clinicians, Experts by Experience, VCSE partners, service leaders and programme colleagues to drive innovation, influence system-wide improvements, and support the transformation of perinatal mental health services across South London. We are seeking experienced, enthusiastic and collaborative leaders with a strong background in perinatal services, excellent communication and partnership-working skills, and a passion for improving outcomes for women, birthing people and families.
Join us in delivering innovative, inclusive and high-quality perinatal mental health care across South London.
Interviews are expected to take place w.c. 31 August + 7 September

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of a dynamic team, supporting the development of partnership working and service change across Perinatal services in South London. The role will contribute to both strategic and operational development, while helping to ensure consistent and accessible perinatal care pathways that deliver excellent clinical and quality outcomes for women, birthing people and their families.
The post holder will report to the SLP Clinical Director and work closely with the Programme Director and other Workstream Leads to ensure alignment across the programme. In addition, there may be opportunities to collaborate with other London and/or national organisations on specific service developments. The role offers a valuable opportunity to develop skills and approaches across both provider and commissioner settings.
This post would suit an individual with extensive experience in perinatal services, along with the enthusiasm and passion to bring together clinicians, service leads, multidisciplinary colleagues, Experts by Experience and VCSE partners to develop and maintain high-quality, accessible perinatal services.
The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, with the ability to build effective internal and external networks and ensure pathways are efficient and aligned with SLP aims. The role is well suited to someone with the drive and enthusiasm to support change and develop new frameworks for partnership working in a complex and dynamic environment.

About us
South London Mental Health and Community Partnership:
The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) is a collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, (Oxleas) South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, (SLaM), and South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) between them delivering mental health services to a population of more than three million people. The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and deliver best practice consistently to all patients. Since its inception, the SLP has been a resilient and effective partnership that has improved patient experience, introduced innovation, and developed new services across the 12 boroughs of south London.

The Perinatal Provider Collaborative (PC) was established in October 2023. The PC aims to improve the perinatal mental health pathway for women and birthing people, ensuring equitable access to services across all South London boroughs. Bringing together the knowledge and experience of clinicians, experts by experience, and voluntary sector partners, the PC works collaboratively to address the challenges faced by local populations. Its goal is to enhance patient outcomes and improve access to high-quality mental health services for women and birthing people across South London.

Job responsibilities
Key areas for the workstream lead to drive forward in collaboration with key stakeholders:

• 1. To develop and lead on delivering an agreed programme of work to progressively reduce the health inequalities gap and improve equitable and timely access to PN services.
• 2. To evaluate and evidence long term impact of inequalities programme
• 3. To support ease of access by strengthening the 'safe waiting' offer and review referral pathways to facilitate ease of referral processes consistently across all services
• 4. Explore further the opportunities to work more closely with our VSCE partners to support the underrepresented SL population to access perinatal care.
• 5. To strengthen the PC prevention approach by enhancing partnership working with primary care/neighbourhoods with the aim to support earlier identification and intervention

Key Responsibilities:

• Bringing together a core group of professionals from the services across the three providers and key stakeholders included in the pathways for regular workstream meetings and to lead these meetings.
• Develop a framework for the workstream that supports delivery of the programme priorities.
• Ensure work is aligned with the wider PC programme and other workstream work.
• Supporting the continued development of partnership working that promotes multi-disciplinary engagement in the improvement of clinical services.
• Developing and maintaining credibility with all key stakeholders within the partnership community, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of equitable, high-quality care. At times this will include acting as an honest broker reconciling conflicting views and interests.
• Providing senior Workstream Leadership, liaising with colleagues within the SLP Partnership; inpatient, community, and maternal mental health services to ensure high quality outcomes and pathway efficiency.
• Fostering a culture of multi-professional engagement in the improvement of care across integrated pathways for the Perinatal partnership. This will include collaborating and engaging with clinical colleagues to develop and deliver ambitious programmes of quality improvement across the partnership.
• Fostering and promoting a culture of joint working, co-production and co-creation with experts by experience
• Fostering and promoting a culture of clinical engagement and influence ensuring the partnership initiatives and services are clinically led. This includes developing links with Perinatal services that sit outside the Provider Collaborative remit but are critical to developing effective pathways and way of working across service Tiers.
• Working with colleagues to support the development of consistent service and clinical outcomes and share learning.
• Supporting the identification of key issues, successes, risks or problems.
• Identifying gaps in services.
• Identifying and developing innovations (shared from individual teams initiatives or developed across South London) to improve services, NICE compliance etc. This may sometimes entail championing new initiatives or pilots to build an evidence base for new approaches that can help achieve the aims of accessible care, close to home and in the least restrictive setting.
• Promoting the systematic application of quality frameworks and using evidence base and analytics to inform quality improvements.
• Ensuring that workstream activities under the Leads purview are conducted in compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the partnership.
• Promoting opportunities for shared training and staff development

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Full registration with the General Medical Council
• Live registration

Desirable

• Evidence of specialist training
• Proven ability in teaching and formal. training in professional/clinical supervision
• Professional management qualification or equivalent level of substantial experience/training in leading services and successfully managing or contributing to major change programmes
• Leadership training and experience of leading services and complex development programmes

Experience
Essential

• Senior Clinical or Operational experience working in south London Perinatal services
• Leading or supporting service improvement initiatives across services
• Participated in reviewing a service from a quality perspective

Desirable

• Service design and implementation Experience of working collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and deliver improvement initiatives
• Experience of working collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and deliver improvement initiatives

Knowledge
Essential

• Understanding of working with a range of stakeholders in coordinating support for Perinatal services
• Understanding of clinical pathways in south London Perinatal services
• Understanding of delivering clinical outcomes
• Understanding of key performance indicators and their relationship to service delivery and quality
• Understanding the role of women, birthing people and their families/carers in the development and delivery of services

Desirable

• Understanding of the role of and approaches to commissioning services
• Understanding and experience of utilising service and quality improvement methodology
• Understanding of partnership working including working with VCSE partners and Experts by Experience

Skills
Essential

• Ability to lead and deliver change programmes/service improvement
• Able to use mandated and personal authority in role
• Ability to facilitate and influence
• Ability to maintain a focus on and drive quality improvements
• Ability to facilitate constructive challenge within and across organisations

Desirable

• Ability to hold services to account
• Ability to use data to maintain / improve quality
• Ability to work and communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues in different organisational tiers
• Leadership skills including the ability to energise, shape and direct teams

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.