Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust are proud to be part of the new Pan-London Enhanced Mental Health Pathfinder Alliance; bringing together the NHS and voluntary sector to improve care for adult victims and survivors of sexual assault and abuse with complex trauma-related mental health needs, enabling recovery and long-term wellbeing.
The Alliance aims to strengthen collaboration between statutory and voluntary sector services, improve identification of complex trauma-related needs and develop the capacity and pathways required to deliver timely , sustained, trauma informed support.
We are seeking an psychological professional for a pivotal leadership role in the Alliance Management Team, responsible alongside the Alliance Director for ensuring the EMHP Alliance delivers its vision and strategic objectives . The post holder will bring experience of working with survivors of sexual harm who have complex mental health needs. They will be a compassionate leader with substantial experience in strategic clinical decision making, leading complex service change, and the ability to influence across a range of organisations. They will occupy a senior psychological profession position, making contributions to professional associations, forums and teaching institutions. They will role model and champion the EMHP Alliance’s vision and values, building a culture where staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds flourish.
The post holder will work autonomously within EMHP Alliance, Oxleas NHS Trust and professional guidelines. Alongside the Alliance Director, the post holder will provide strategic and operational clinical leadership across the Alliance, ensuring safe, effective, trauma-informed evidence-based, timely care for adult survivors of sexual assault and abuse with complex mental health needs. They will lead clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management, service planning and clinical pathway development across partner organisations, while promoting shared clinical s tandards, reducing fragmentation and improving access and outcomes. The post holder will chair relevant forums, lead audit, policy and service development with the AMT, oversee ev aluation a nd research activity, and help shape training, su pervision a nd workforce development. The role requires visible senior leadership, strong partnership working across NHS and voluntary sector services, and a commitment to equity, inclusion, lived ex perience a nd psychological safety.
The Alliance is made up of six core members: Ashiana, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Pan London Sexual Violence Alliance, Respond, Solace and Survivor’s Trust. The post holder will be required to work in offices of Alliance members on a regular basis.
Please note, this is a pan London development project and the Post holder will be required to travel across the whole of London as part of their duties.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychological therapies, psychiatry, nursing and AHPs and community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
