Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind
Job Title: Chief Executive
Hours:36
Contract:Permanent
Responsible to: Executive Committee
Based in:Ashton under Lyne
Job Purpose
The CEO serves as chief executive of Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind and, in partnership with the Executive Committee, is responsible for the success of Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind. Together, the Executive Committee and the CEO assure Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind’s relevance to the community, the accomplishment of its mission and vision, and the accountability of Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind to its diverse stakeholders and communities. The Executive Committee delegates responsibility for management and day-to-day operations to the CEO who has the authority to carry out these responsibilities, in accordance with the policies established by the Executive Committee. The CEO, in their role of Company Secretary, provides direction and enabling to the Board as it carries out its governance functions.
Mission Statement
"Our mission is to be an organisation of excellence with an ever changing and diverse range of activities and services that promotes psychological and physical well-being, stimulates recovery and leads to social inclusion within mainstream society”
Ethos
To ensure that the concepts of personalisation, recovery, psychological and physical well-being and social inclusion are present throughout the organisation. To carry these out in a manner that reflects our commitment to being a green and ethical company.
The key functions of this post are:
1.Communication and relationship skills and responsibilities
To present and deliver the organisation’s strategy, operational plans and policies to all staff, volunteers, commissioners, partner organisations andmembers of the public. This may include providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required.
To ensure these stakeholders agreement and co-operation and to overcomeany barriers to understanding
To develop and sustain meaningful relationships with all appropriate stakeholders.
2.Knowledge training and experience
To understanding the range of work, procedures and practices across the whole organization, which require expertise within the organisation’srange of specialismsand disciplines, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.
3.Analytical skills
To make judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
This will often be made up of several components which have to be analysed and assessed and which may contain conflicting information or indicators e.g. assessment of specialist clinical conditions, analysis of complex financial trends, investigating and assessing serious disciplinary cases.
4.Planning and organizational skills
Formulating the organisation’s long-term, strategic plan, to address uncertainty and create a modern and innovative mental health and well-being service.
This long term strategic planwill extend for at least the future year and take into account the overall aims and policies of the organization.
To create an operational framework for the implementation of this plan.
5.Physical skills
The post has minimal demand for work related physical skills.
6.Responsibility for client care
Provides specialised advice in relation to the care of patients and clients.
This includes providing specialised advice, which contributes to the, wellbeing, care or education of patients/clients and the regular inspection andquality assurance of facilities and services for patients and clients.
7.Responsibility for policy and service
To ensure that the organisation meets all its legal requirements in terms of (for example) staff, buildings, services and resources.
To hold the corporate responsibility for all policy implementation and policy or service development, across and, where appropriate beyond the organisation. This refers to responsibility for policy or service development such as is held by those on the Executive Committee.
To develop and communicate the business ethos necessary to achieve the organisation’s vision and strategy while retaining the organisation’s principles relating to social care.
To ensure that service changes or developments are in line with both commissioners requirements and with the policy and ethos of the organisation. To ensure that the organisation maintains a commitment to meeting National Mind’s Quality Standards and any other agreed QA schemes at the highest level possible.
To champion being an ethical and environmentally responsible organisation that promotes and ensures equal opportunities for all.
8.Responsibility financial and physical
To be responsible for budget setting for all department and services.
To be responsible for the procurement and maintenance of all building and other physical assets and supplies for departments and service,authorizing expenditure and accountable for expenditure within a budget allocated by the Board.
To ensure, in conjunction with the Executive Committee and senior management team, that the organisation remains financially viable, and is effectively managed within its budget.
9.Responsibility for staff, HR, leadership and training
To be responsible for the recruitment and management of all paid staff and volunteersacross the organisation.
To provide inspirational leadership that promotes a motivated and highly productive workforce.
To create a culture that values the workforce and ensures that well-being is evident throughout the organisation.
To lead and provide supervision to the members of the senior management team.
To hold regular senior management team meetings and ensure that senior managers’ activities are coordinated.
10.Responsibilities for information resources
To advise the Executive Committee in the role of Company Secretary, including but not exclusively advising on its Memorandum and Articles of Association and Charity Commission and Company House requirements.
To undertake any other duties associated with the role of Company Secretary.
To ensure that all IT systems and services, including website, internet and intranet adequately meet the needs of the organisation.
11.Responsibilityfor research and development
To be responsible, as an integral part of the job, for initiating (which may involve securing funding) and developing research and development programmes or activities that support the objectives of the broader organisation in order to ensure that it continues to create and deliver innovative and high quality person centred services, promoting psychological and physical well-being.
To keep abreast of local, regional, and national opportunities and threats and ensure the organisation adapts accordingly.
12.Freedom to act
Is guided by general health, organisational and broad occupational policies. To establish the way in which these should be interpreted.
This indicates freedom to take action based on own interpretation of broad clinical, professional, administrative, technical and scientific policies, where appropriate advising the Executive Committee on how these should be interpreted.
To develop and maintain a high visibility relationship with National Mind.
To ensure that Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind complies with all its agreements with National Mind.
13.Physical effort
The role will involve a combination of sitting, standing and walking with little requirement for physical effort. There may be a requirement to exert light physical effort for short periods.
14.Mental effort
There is a frequent requirement for concentration where the work pattern is unpredictable and an occasional requirement for prolonged concentration.
This will frequently cause the post holder to change from what they are doing to another activity. There will often be no prior knowledge of an impending interruption but a need to immediately change planned activities in response to one.
15.Emotional effort
The post-holder will occasionally be exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances themselves, and frequently indirectly exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances as reported by staff, volunteers and others.
16.Working conditions
The post-holder will need to frequently visit sites across the organisation and so will have afrequent requirement to use transportation.
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