Green Agenda and Sustainability Lead - London, United Kingdom - South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity is now available to take on a brand new role as the Trust's Green Agenda and Sustainability Lead.

This role will lead a significant programme of work supporting the Trust's Green Plan, which has ambitions to meet carbon emissions and pollution reduction targets for the NHS.

We want to deliver care that is sustainable and adaptable to climate change and our Green Plan supports this.

We are looking for an experienced leader to be responsible for the planning, delivery, reporting and effective management of a number of projects within our Green Plan.

The successful postholder will be a leader who is passionate and proactive, able to work collaboratively across Trust departments - including estates, contracting and clinical service lines - and with external partners and stakeholders and has a technical understanding of the various aspects of decarbonisation.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations.

We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties.

Experience of working with senior leaders internally and externally
Experience of producing project plans that meet deadlines for large programmes of work.
Experience of drafting reports for committees and programme board meetings
A strong track record of service redesign, performance and change management
Significant experience of working in the NHS
Knowledge of the funding processes and opportunities related to green investment, inclinding leading the development of bids for external funding and influence the Trust's capital investment and lifecycle funding plans for sustainability and decarbonisation initiatives.
Significant experience of NHS Green agenda and green, environmental and sustainability approaches, opportuntiies and challenges.
Ability to plan and prioritise own work and that of others to meet required deadlines

Flexible working:

We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.

In this role you will be able to workMonday to Fridayin the time frames from09.00to17.00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health.

The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together.

We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.

More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton

To create the very best environment to care for our patients, this site's layout will be transformed in 2026 to add a number of wards to the existing three.

Tolworth has a canteen and is near shops, the A3, Tolworth station, and is a bus ride from Surbiton station, with fast connections to Clapham

Green agenda development, Planning and Organising

To lead the implementation of the Trust Green Plan Delivery Programme, including establishing and leading the new Green Group, made up of staff and service users, tasked with the promotion and support behaviour change and the overseeing the delivery of our Green Plan
Define key sustainability and green measures and audit and benchmark delivery against these, such as recycling initiatives and consistent signage or tools for teams to calculate/track their carbon footprints.
To lead and manage the integration of Green Plan activities into existing programmes of work for example, health inequalities, quality improvement and transformation to add value.
Work with colleagues internally to ensure that green and sustainability considerations are included in impact assessment and risk assessment and management within wider Trust programmes and standard ways of working.
Lead the development of business cases and secure funding for this programme of work, specifically leading on bidding for Salix and other available funding; and influencing the Trust's capital investment a