# Care Group Director > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/care-group-director/ce47f7ed-98df-4cb1-9519-dfef923de2f3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/care-group-director/ce47f7ed-98df-4cb1-9519-dfef923de2f3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** North View - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Director - **Salary:** £112,782 - £129,783 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (with on call requirements) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-22T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-28T14:11:02.628Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Prestwich/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration_Mental_Health/Administration_Mental_Health-v8392361 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8392361?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Essentail **Essential** - Values based leadership approaches - Evidence of understanding self and impact on others **Desirable** - Evidence of positive impact on others ### Essential **Essential** - - A recognised mental health clinical qualification and current professional registration. - - Significant senior leadership experience within mental health services. - - Experience of leading large, complex operational or clinical portfolios. - - A track record of delivering improvements in quality, safety, performance and financial outcomes simultaneously. - - Experience of leading major organisational change and transformation. **Desirable** - Formal qualification or advanced training in quality improvement, transformation or system leadership. - Experience of place-based, provider collaborative or wider system leadership. - Experience as Senior Responsible Owner for a major transformation or service redesign programme. ## Documents - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 216.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10722621) ## 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.