General Manager – KMP Innovations
Closing date: 01 April 2026
At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, we believe in providing excellent care delivered with pride and compassion. Everything we do is to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.
The General Manager will be responsible for fostering and sustaining collaborative relationships between CAMHS and Maudsley Charity-funded projects, including the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative and other funding streams. The postholder will ensure effective operational links, promote best practice, and embed innovation to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families across SLaM's four boroughs. This role will champion co-design, shared learning, and the translation of collaborative intent into transformative practice, aligned with Integrated Care System (ICS) priorities. Focusing on reducing children and young people waiting to access CAMHS services and working more preventatively with local voluntary sector services, these innovative programmes offer an opportunity to test new ways of working. This role is pivotal in ensuring stable, supportive and safe operational implementation and will identify and convey the impacts and new ways of working so they can be embedded moving forward.
Main duties of the job
* Lead the operational link between CAMHS teams and BBF/VCSE partners; anticipate and resolve delivery challenges.
* Promote collaboration, information‑sharing and reflective practice, securing clinical input and supervision where needed.
* Work with SLaM Finance to forecast, monitor and report on grants; provide concise, insight‑led briefings to senior leadership.
* Identify successful pilots and support scaling/upscaling aligned to ICD neighbourhood priorities and THRIVE.
* Collaborate with Kings Maudsley Partnership on joint programmes, evaluation frameworks and learning capture.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the operational interface between CAMHS community teams and BBF/other Maudsley Charity-funded projects and act as a bridge to promote good communication.
Anticipate and resolve operational challenges to support a successful outcome for the BBF projects.
Promote collaboration and information sharing between CAMHS and BBF projects, supporting clinical supervision, training, and multidisciplinary team contributions when appropriate.
Collaborate with Maudsley Charity and Kings Maudsley Partnership on joint programmes, innovation pilots, and evaluation frameworks.
Work closely with SLAM finance to support the management of grants within SLAM to ensure flow of funds to teams and BBF projects when appropriate.
Provide SLAM‑CAMHS and Maudsley Charity senior leadership with high‑quality reports and briefings to update on progress over the lifetime of the BBF projects.
Ensure learning from partnership initiatives is embedded and sustainable.
Support strategic planning by identifying successful pilots or elements that, towards the rollout and upscaling of best practice, promote consistency and best practice across the four boroughs.
Critically examine and promote the conditions for genuine, transformative collaboration.
Promote timely access and effective safe care in your service areas.
Ensure all Trust processes and policies are followed.
Manage daily performance of the clinical services, including quality, patient safety, satisfaction, clinical outcomes and compliance with clinical pathways.
Contribute to the delivery of regular and systematic evaluation of care standards via formal audit or other methods, ensuring that any necessary changes are implemented.
Use real‑time data to drive daily operational decisions.
Act as a clinical advisor and role model for staff, offering assistance and support, and applying problem‑solving skills where appropriate.
Contribute to the implementation of new policies, protocols and practices in relation to new NICE Guidance.
Provide demonstrable assurance that resources available achieve efficiencies, reduce waste and improve clinical quality.
Promote the engagement of carers and families in the care pathway.
Person Specification
* Senior operational management experience in health or social care with a focus on mental health.
* Strong experience with finance colleagues in forecasting spend, monitoring budgets, and identifying risks and opportunities.
* Proven track record of managing organisational change and development of clinical services.
* Demonstrated ability to oversee governance and reporting cycles.
* Understands the principles relating to contractual arrangements/Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with commissioners and other partner agencies.
* Commitment to principles and implementation in practice of equality, diversity, and inclusion in CAMHS.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary
£72,921 to £83,362 a year pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS.
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