Job summary
Reporting directly to the Divisional Director, the post holder will be required to work in collaboration with the wider Executive Team and Trust Board to deliver this agenda and attend executive management group meetings as an active member when necessary but will not be a board director post.
This post is central to providing strategic leadership to the successful operation of the Secure Care Division (including 210 bed High Secure Hospital), and the transformation agenda. The post holder will have experience of working within Secure Mental Health Services, including High Secure. The overall aim is to improve health, clinical outcomes, patient experience, and productivity whilst meeting financial, legal, and contractual requirements.
Main duties of the job
Provide high level operational and strategic business planning and leadership to ensure that the division provides high quality patient care and achieves its performance objectives.
Take responsibility for driving forward corporate and cross cutting programmes of work and service improvements.
Build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders, including service users/carers and strategic partners representing the Secure Division at national forums relating to the development and provision of secure services.
Drive the cultural change required to embed the Vision and Values of the Trust and Just and Learning Culture principles across the Secure Division.
Responsible for the effective operational management of all clinical staff and clinical processes within the Secure Division.
Development of effective clinical processes/operational policies and well-functioning multidisciplinary teams.
Ensure that effective multi-disciplinary decision making informs the delivery of care at all stages of the assessment, treatment and aftercare processes.
For further duties, please see the attached job description.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Set and ensure the achievement of standards of excellence in managerial practice and lead the promotion of a management ethos in which high standards of performance and quality care are the norm.
Promote a culture, within the division, that enables open and transparent communication and team working that always puts the patient firs.
Be responsible for the delivery of agreed performance objectives and in particular the key performance indicators relating to the operational management of the division in line with the operating framework and commissioning priorities.
Responsible for the efficient management of divisional teams, ensuring timely and appropriate decisions are taken to deliver safe quality patient care and clinical and performance outcomes.
Able to identify, interpret and analyse highly complex data and use judgemental skills across a range of options in order to make timely and appropriate decisions.
Ensuring that a robust and active governance programme is maintained within the division through the maintenance of appropriate systems and processes to comply with current guidance and regulation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Set and ensure the achievement of standards of excellence in managerial practice and lead the promotion of a management ethos in which high standards of performance and quality care are the norm.
Promote a culture, within the division, that enables open and transparent communication and team working that always puts the patient firs.
Be responsible for the delivery of agreed performance objectives and in particular the key performance indicators relating to the operational management of the division in line with the operating framework and commissioning priorities.
Responsible for the efficient management of divisional teams, ensuring timely and appropriate decisions are taken to deliver safe quality patient care and clinical and performance outcomes.
Able to identify, interpret and analyse highly complex data and use judgemental skills across a range of options in order to make timely and appropriate decisions.
Ensuring that a robust and active governance programme is maintained within the division through the maintenance of appropriate systems and processes to comply with current guidance and regulation.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Strong financial management skills and understanding of governance requirements.
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication (written and oral), persuasive and facilitation skills.
- Ability to prepare concise communications for dissemination.
Values
Essential
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a senior management role in the NHS or large multifunctional public or commercial environment.
- Able to demonstrate extensive resource management within an operational environment including clinical service provision, finance, HR, change management and modernisation.
- Multi-agency partnership working.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact on service provision of DoH strategy and Foundation Trust status.
- Experience of developing business plans which support corporate and divisional objectives.
- Proven ability to work in a challenging performance management environment, delivery on targets within agreed timescales
- A sound knowledge of clinical governance.
- Experience of leadership and management of complex change in a large organisation.
- Current experience of strategic and operational responsibility for delivery of mental health, learning disabilities and addiction services.
- Broad knowledge across a range of clinical areas, the wider NHS and future challenges within public sector services.
- Knowledge and understanding of change management and quality improvement theory.
- Knowledge of national political agenda, the external environment including national and regional strategies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of on-going professional development
- Appropriate professional qualification in mental health
Desirable
- Management of leadership qualification at post graduate level or equivalent experience
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to respecting and modelling the trust values.
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships.
- Adaptability and initiative to raise to new challenges at a time of change.
- Able to work with and through ambiguity.
- Passionate about service improvement and the benefits this can deliver to patient care.
- Commitment to personal, staff and organisational development.
- Self-confident and emotionally resilient.
- Flexible in style and approach.
- Professional and personal credibility
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Strong financial management skills and understanding of governance requirements.
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication (written and oral), persuasive and facilitation skills.
- Ability to prepare concise communications for dissemination.
Values
Essential
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a senior management role in the NHS or large multifunctional public or commercial environment.
- Able to demonstrate extensive resource management within an operational environment including clinical service provision, finance, HR, change management and modernisation.
- Multi-agency partnership working.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact on service provision of DoH strategy and Foundation Trust status.
- Experience of developing business plans which support corporate and divisional objectives.
- Proven ability to work in a challenging performance management environment, delivery on targets within agreed timescales
- A sound knowledge of clinical governance.
- Experience of leadership and management of complex change in a large organisation.
- Current experience of strategic and operational responsibility for delivery of mental health, learning disabilities and addiction services.
- Broad knowledge across a range of clinical areas, the wider NHS and future challenges within public sector services.
- Knowledge and understanding of change management and quality improvement theory.
- Knowledge of national political agenda, the external environment including national and regional strategies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of on-going professional development
- Appropriate professional qualification in mental health
Desirable
- Management of leadership qualification at post graduate level or equivalent experience
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to respecting and modelling the trust values.
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships.
- Adaptability and initiative to raise to new challenges at a time of change.
- Able to work with and through ambiguity.
- Passionate about service improvement and the benefits this can deliver to patient care.
- Commitment to personal, staff and organisational development.
- Self-confident and emotionally resilient.
- Flexible in style and approach.
- Professional and personal credibility
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
