SLP Perinatal Workstream Lead - Quality and Outcomes

Job overview

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 Quality and Outcomes 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

• To identify any unwarranted variation in quality & outcome measures across services, agree and implement a programme of work, aligning action plans with the Health Inequalities and Access workstream.
• To develop sustainable use of outcome measures in community and inpatient perinatal and maternal mental health services with routine reporting of a common measure across services.
• To work towards Perinatal Quality Network accreditation across all perinatal community services.

Key Responsibilities:  Key aspects of the roles which will include but are not limited to:

• 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