Business Support Officer

The Quality Centre (QCen) is our Trust vehicle for working with staff, patients, and carers, alongside colleagues at Kings College London and Kings Health Partners, to drive improvement, innovation and value-based commissioning in mental health care. All our work is underpinned by the principles of collaboration, inclusion, shared learning and the use of data intelligence to achieve our vision of optimising health outcomes for the populations we serve, whilst bringing together our learning for wider benefit.  The Quality Centre is led by the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer and comprises of 3 main areas: The Trust’s Quality Management System   Clinical Effectiveness  Outcomes   The Improvement Service   Quality Improvement  Organisational consultancy and coaching   Evaluation   Audit   Business Support Officer for the Quality Centre is responsible for overseeing the operational and strategic management of the business administration systems supporting the Quality Centre team, and to ensure that resources and facilities are managed effectively.   They will provide responsive, professional leadership of a high quality in all areas of administration, health and safety and business management, in compliance with all appropriate Trust policies & initiatives. This will involve close and joint working with the Director of Improvement, Head of Improvement Programmes, Head of Quality, Head of QI and Head of SLaM Partners, as well as their teams.    They will manage the business management and daily administration of the Quality Centre functions, and provide diary management for the Director of Improvement, being the main point of contact for professionals and clients contacting the Quality Centre. About the location:Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth. The team base is at the Maudsley and this is an in person role. Travel will be required across sites.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katie Rock Job title: Head of Improvement Programmes Email address: Katherine.Rock@slam.nhs.ukPlease contact Katie Rock (Katherine.Rock@Slam.nhs.uk) or Dr Barbara Grey (Barbara.Grey@slam.nhs.uk) to discuss this vacancy.