Assistant Director of Mental Health & Autism
Location: Central Office – Reigate / Hybrid Working with a requirement to travel to services.
Overview
The Assistant Director of Mental Health & Autism is responsible for overseeing the operations of Active Prospects’ Mental Health and Autism services, ensuring that support provided is tailored to individuals, flexible, and promotes independence and personal development. This role requires creativity, enthusiasm, a strong commitment to values, and significant strategic management experience in health and social care commissioned provision.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage operations of Mental Health and Autism services across Active Prospects, developing and applying operational best practice.
- Drive positive cultural change, embodying and promoting the values and behaviours of Active Prospects by empowering people to reach their full potential and leading wellbeing outcomes to measure and drive the impact of support delivery.
- Safeguarding, incident management, clinical support, managing multidisciplinary teams and risk management to individuals and Active Prospects.
- Manage voids, referrals, marketing opportunities, experience of cost models, local council and health commissioning frameworks and tenders.
- Lead on the care systems within the designated areas to ensure utilisation of support staff is in line with delivery of contracts, support hours, and be able to analyse trends and concerns including under or over provisions of budgets.
- Develop partnerships with local and national health and social care organisations, lead on social value and collaboration initiatives that benefit Active Prospects and share relevant knowledge internally.
- Deputise in absence of the Director of Care, actively pursue opportunities for further qualifications and lifelong learning while maintaining up-to-date knowledge and skills, demonstrating a proactive commitment to best practice, and effectively engage with broader social care networks at both local and national levels.
- Recognise and leverage both planned and organic opportunities to extend Active Prospects’ reach and growth throughout the Southeast region.
Qualifications & Experience
- Significant experience in developing and providing health and social care services for people living with mental health conditions and autism, especially those who have spent extended periods in hospital.
- Commercial finance expertise, understanding of the political context within Adult Social Care and ICB NHS partners, and the ability to build relationships to drive actions and results.
- Extensive senior management experience and thorough understanding of dual diagnoses within neurodiverse groups.
- Expertise in mental health, self-harm prevention, and suicide prevention initiatives, consistently excelling in fostering collaboration between health and social care sectors.
- Proven collaborator, able to bring strategic insight through partnership with colleagues and stakeholders, playing an integral role in Active Prospects’ ongoing improvement, achievement of strategic goals, and delivery of high-quality services for those we support.
Legal and Regulatory Requirements
As part of the Senior Care Leadership Team, ensure that services within Active Prospects comply with the Health and Social Care Act 2008, Care Act 2014, the Mental Health Act 2025 (and any future updates), and maintain regulatory standards across every area.
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