Organisational Development and Sustainability Lead; Community CAMHS

Overview

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The Organisational Development and Sustainability Lead oversees the Directorate's Sustainability programme in Community CAMHS, aligning with strategic priorities set by leadership. The role is responsible for strengthening local leadership, fostering a culture of change, and ensuring effective delivery and evaluation of the Sustainability Strategy. This requires strong problem-solving, planning, and influencing skills within a complex, multi-organisation environment.

The role requires someone with experience and credibility in organisational development and change programme delivery, who can engage a wide range of staff members and stakeholders in the improvement agenda. Additionally, the post holder will be operationally responsible for the delivery of Community CAMHS services and line manage the Borough Clinical Service/General Managers.

The closing date is 04 February 2026

Key Result areas:

• Working with the Directorate Leadership team and Senior Leaders to shape the vision for change and use the associated frameworks, policies and processes.
• Definition, development and implementation of the strategy deployment as well as day to day delivery of the operations in services.
• Senior lead for a major change project where the complexity and/or cross organisational impact requires senior and experienced leadership to ensure delivery.
• Providing best practice change management, strategic portfolio management, and transformation subject matter expertise to enable the continued implementation of the ambitious plan.
• Build the leadership capability of the portfolio, working with operational, clinical and QI colleagues as required.

Key Relationships:

• Internal Stakeholders including (but not limited to):
  Executive management team, Non Executive Directors, Clinical Directors, Directorate Leadership Teams, Corporate teams, wider clinical and non-clinical staff
• External Stakeholders:
  Service Users & Carers, Alliance Partners (specifically in Lewisham), Regulators, Commissioners, NHS England, Local Authorities, Third Sector organisations, Health Education England, Trade Union / staff partnership organisations
• Networking and credible support arrangements with peers in the wider health and social care community

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness.

Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

The Trust employs around 6000 staff and serve a local population of 1.3 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

The Trust delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.

• Accountable for the direct development and delivery of the sustainability strategy across CAMHS, ensuring alignment between strategy, transformation and improvement portfolios
• Lead the development and implementation of the transformation programme, with relevant MDT input, supporting key strategic priorities
• Develop an underpinning theory of change for organisational sustainability, based on a strategic analysis of current and future state using performance data
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