Head of Mental Health Programmes

The roles and responsibilities for the position include:

Strategy Development and implementation

• Work with the Clinical Academic Director for the Mental Health and Behaviour Change (MHBC) programme to develop and lead the implementation of a robust mental health strategy for UCLPartners to meet the programme’s ambition.
• Ensure the programme is co-designed with service users, clinicians, academics, our health and care partners etc.
• Ensure measurement and evaluation are a core component of programme delivery so that improvement in outcomes can be assessed.
• Ensure the values of fairness, justice, equality, inclusion, dignity and respect are woven throughout the work of the MHBC programme
• Engage internal teams and corporate functions within UCLPartners to ensure all workstreams are delivering the MHBC ambition holding others to account where required
• Ensure all UCLPartners’ work engages with and keeps citizens’ needs at its forefront through a robust and inclusive patient and public involvement and engagement strategy.

Partnership working

• Work with other partners – eg Trusts, genomic hub, AHSC, CRN etc to build their engagement in and contribution to the mental health programme.
• Building and maintaining excellent working relationships with the wider health system across the UCLPartners geography including STPs/ ICSs, Trusts, Primary Care Networks through and with whom the mental health ambition will be delivered.
• To be a point of contact for mental health within the UCLPartners’ geography

External relationships

• Develop and nurture external partnership including charities, commercial companies and members of the AHSN Network
• Secure additional resource and support for the MHBC programme
• Support the UCLP Director on national work around mental health

Programme delivery

• Support and deputise for the AHSN Director on the mental health programme
• Deputise for the Director of Mental Health when required
• Line manage and support development of the non-clinical mental health team
• Promote diversity, equality and inclusion in all team activity including addressing health inequalities in our work

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