Senior Programme Officer – Mental Health

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Brent Integrated Care Partnership has a number of exciting opportunities available, supporting the borough based partnership to deliver its objectives in a changing and evolving health and care landscape. We have 11 roles available, hosted by CNWL but working as part of a wider partnership of health and care organisations in Brent.
About the Roles
Most of the roles available are being advertised on a permanent basis, but others are being advertised on a fixed term 12-month basis, due to changing needs within the organisation over time. The current roles are available on trac jobs are below with reference numbers
333-J-M-0181 - Head of Neighbourhoods and Integration – Band 8C
333-J-M-0182 - Delivery Officer x 2 - Band 5
333-J-M-0183 - Primary Care Workforce Manager - Band 7
333-J-M-0184 - Director of Systems Improvement and Delivery (band 9)
333-J-M-0185 - Programme Manager – Community Services and Long-Term Conditions (Band 8a)
333-J-M-0187 - Senior Programme Officer – Enabler Workstreams
333-J-M-0189 - Executive Assistant to the Managing Director of the ICP – Band 5
333-J-M-0188 - Project Officer – Children’s Workstreams (Band 6)
333-J-M-0190 - Programme Officer – Mental Health Access and Demand (Band 6)
The Senior Programme Officer will play a pivotal role in supporting the Head of Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism in the Borough of Brent. This role involves extensive collaboration with stakeholders, including voluntary community sector enterprises, social care, health, and residents, to ensure the successful delivery of the mental health business case agreed with North West London ICB. The individual will be responsible for mapping services, identifying improvement opportunities, and developing detailed plans for service co-location and integration.
The overarching vision is to elevate the quality of care, health, and well-being for Brent’s local residents, ensuring service provision aligns with the community’s needs, maintains cost-effectiveness, and produces optimal outcomes for service users. Central to the success of this vision are robust integrated neighbourhood teams and relationships, underpinned by a coordinated strategy across Brent ICP and the broader Northwest London Integrated Care System (ICS). Collaboration with local partners in the NHS, Brent Council, and VCSEs is paramount, with an emphasis on commissioners and providers working collaboratively as a unified partnership system, placing patients and residents at the core of decision-making.
Brent Integrated Care Partnership (Brent ICP) brings together health and care organisations from across the borough. It aims to work collaboratively with all the health, care and wellbeing organisations that serve the community of Brent.

Service Mapping and Improvement

• Support the lead in mapping services to geographical footprints across the Borough.
• Identify opportunities for service improvement and patient outcomes through the co-location of services, closer to home.
• Develop detailed delivery plans for each of the 5 neighbourhoods/connect areas in Brent.

Integrated Pathways and Infrastructure

• Assist in the development of options for improving various services and creating integrated pathways.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure agreement on a shared vision for integrated services.
• Champion the ethos of co-production, especially with residents in the neighbourhoods

Stakeholder Engagement

• Support the delivery of stakeholder engagement activities to ensure program buy-in across the system.
• Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information to stakeholders, including that relating to financial flows or contractual set-ups relating to Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism
• Foster co-production with partners, ensuring resident involvement in decision-making processes.
• Promote ways of working that are conductive to the development of INTs and use persuasive skills, where sometimes the postholder will encounter resistance or need to resolve conflicting opinions to present a way forward.
• The postholder will also be required to present to stakeholder groups such as the GP forum or patient groups about the latest changes within the area of Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism

Project Management

• Develop and design the implementation plan, adhering to agreed timescales and milestones.
• Project manage key enablers such as workforce and OD, estates optimisation, ICT connectivity, and digitalisation.
• Hold extensive experience relating to project management including the various stages according to the PRINCE 2 methodology such as project initiation, planning a phase, managing a stage boundary etc.
• Where required, supporting the development of business cases to the ICP Partnership or to the ICB to develop requests for investment into Mental health, learning disabilities and autism
• The postholder will evaluate conflicting information made up of several components to be analysed and be capable of making an independent judgement about what that information means and be able to judge it accordingly and act with autonomy to determine a way forward.

Please refer to the attached Job description for more information about the rol