Care Group Director

Job overview

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is creating a new generation of Care Group leadership.

We are seeking four outstanding Care Group Directors to lead our Trust wide Care Groups and play a pivotal role in delivering on the Trust’s vision of Great Places for Care and Great Places to Work.

Each Care Group Director will be the single accountable leader for one of GMMH's four Care Groups, with full responsibility for quality, safety, operational performance, workforce, transformation and financial delivery across a substantial portfolio of services. The posts report directly to the Deputy Chief Executive / Chief Operating Officer and form a critical part of the Trust's senior leadership structure.

As a Care Group Director, you will lead at scale, influence Trust-wide strategy, provide assurance to the Executive Leadership Team and Board, and help shape the future of mental health, learning disability, autism and specialist services across GMMH.

Main duties of the job

You will lead one of the following Care Groups:

Acute Care Group

Leading urgent care, crisis and inpatient services, ensuring safe, high-quality care, improved patient flow and delivery of key quality standards.

Community Care Group

Leading community mental health, neighbourhood, older adult and locality services, supporting community transformation and population health improvement.

Specialist Care Group

Leading specialist services including children and young people, addictions, talking therapies and other specialist pathways.

Rehabilitation & Forensic Care Group

Leading forensic, rehabilitation, secure and justice services, including prison mental health, supporting high-quality care, recovery, safety and system partnerships.

As Care Group Director, you will:

• Lead one of GMMH's four Trust-wide Care Groups.
• Translate strategy into measurable operational delivery.
• Hold full accountability for quality, safety, workforce, operational performance and financial sustainability.
• Drive large-scale transformation and improvement programmes.
• Reduce unwarranted variation and improve consistency of care.
• Lead a senior multi-professional leadership team.
• Build strong partnerships across Greater Manchester and beyond.
• Ensure the voices of service users, carers and communities influence decision-making.
• Provide visible, compassionate and inclusive leadership.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached detailed job description and person specification:

Staff benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.