# Care Group Director > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/care-group-director/2372f0df-fae9-4026-b25e-a501e1871a0e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/care-group-director/2372f0df-fae9-4026-b25e-a501e1871a0e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Woodfield House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Director - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Full Time) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-01T10:30:58.162Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Doncaster/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Care_Group_Director/Care_Group_Director-v8332285 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8332285?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have 5 Clinical Care Groups, each with a Care Group Director (CGD), who leads their Senior Leadership Team (SLT). This is a serious opportunity for an experienced senior leader to take up this role at a pivotal time. The Children’s Care Group delivers a wide range of high-quality physical and mental health services for children, young people, and their families across the Trust footprint. The CGD holds day-to-day accountability for everything within the Care Group. This relies on a depth of experience; a candidate who is outcomes-focused, a data informed leader who strives to deliver on all the things the Trust are wanting to achieve. All CGD are part of the Clinical Leadership Executive, which reports to the Board, informing Trust decision making. ### Main duties of the job The role reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), who is accountable for the delivery of effective and safe clinical services (i.e. the Care groups). You will join four other established Care Group Directors; Deputy Chief Operating Officer and other members of the senior operational team. The Care Group Director provides leadership to their clinical services which are Childrens Services across Rotherham, North Lincolnshire and Doncaster, alongside their SLT which constitutes three Care Group Clinical Directors and a Deputy Care Group Director. Please apply if you are passionate about the RDaSH strategy with its focus on community power, and can demonstrate: - significant experience of operationally managing and improving clinical service delivery - strong and demonstrable skills in leadership and clinical engagement - excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality written material - ability to lead and deliver on large-scale change - sharp analytical skills and is data driven - a record of delivering on performance, safety & quality and financial sustainability - foster strong partnership relationships; also, with community voices & those with lived experience - feels passionate about taking forward community powered services - a demonstrable ability to lead strategically across different services and systems ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications ### Applicant requirements The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - - Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning. Highly developed political skills and ability to influence others. - - Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations. - - Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement. - - Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively. - - High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner. - - Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions. - - High level critical thinking skills. - - Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate. - - Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines. - - Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues. **Desirable** - Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives. ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes. **Desirable** - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills. ### Experience **Essential** - Must have an understanding of the background of and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this for RDaSH. - - An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, the individual provider and commissioning organisations. - - Consolidated experience as a senior Manager - - 3-5 years’ experience as a senior Manager within the NHS, Local Authority, Business or similar organisation - - Minimum 4 years’ experience of staff Management - - Successful track record of leading complex multiple service areas - - Experience of complex financial and clinical redesign - - Recent demonstrable success in delivering high standards of operational performance - - Recent demonstrable success in influencing and delivering successful service redesign at scale - - Experience of effective team working with multi-disciplinary teams - - Experience of exercising effective, results orientated leadership - - Demonstrable evidence of sound financial planning and HR management at a senior leve - - Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda - - Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes. - - Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning. Highly developed political skills and ability to influence others. - Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning. Highly developed political skills and ability to influence others - - Determination perseverance, and personal resilience. - Flexibility and the ability to handle a Rapidly changing and ambiguous environment **Desirable** - - Show a high level of understanding and experience in the NHS commercial development. Previous experience of working at senior management level within the NHS. - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills - Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a relevant area. - - Educated to master’s level or equivalent ## Documents - [main terms and conditions (pdf, 406.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2515) - [care group director jd &ps (pdf, 160.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10655448) - [rdash clinical & organisational strategy - 2023 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2789) - [use of artificial intelligence (ai) when writing job applications (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2919) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.