Deputy Care Group Director

Job overview

We are seeking experienced, compassionate and highly motivated senior leaders to join Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Care Group Director/s.

These exciting opportunities come at an important time for our organisation as we continue to transform and improve our services and deliver the ambitions of our Making a Difference 2026–2029 Strategy.

These roles offer an excellent opportunity to broaden your senior leadership experience, influence the future direction of our services and make a tangible difference to our patients, families, carers, colleagues and communities.

Main duties of the job

As Deputy Care Group Director, you will be a key member of the Care Group senior Leadership Team, providing visible, compassionate and effective strategic and operational leadership. Working collaboratively alongside the Care Group Directors, Care Group Nurse Directors, Care Group Associate Medical Directors, Chief Psychological Officer and senior Allied Health Professional (AHP) leaders, you will bring together operational, nursing, medical, psychological and AHP leadership to ensure our services are safe, effective, inclusive and sustainable.

You will translate strategic priorities into effective operational delivery, maintaining a strong focus on quality, patient safety, performance, workforce and financial management, while creating a culture that supports innovation, continuous improvement and high-quality care. This is a role with significant scope to influence.

You will build strong relationships across professional and organisational boundaries, working with operational teams, nurses, medical colleagues, psychologists, AHPs and the wider multidisciplinary workforce, alongside corporate colleagues, partners and communities to improve services and outcomes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

About our Trust

The Forensics Care Group delivers care across the full secure care pathway from high secure to community-based forensic services. We provide services through our key forensic sites at Arnold Lodge Regional Medium Secure Unit, Rampton High Secure Hospital, Wathwood Medium Secure Hospital and The Wells Road Centre Low Secure Unit in Nottingham and Community Forensics Care Unit. Our services are based in Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and Leicester.

The Mental Health Care Group includes our Adult Mental Health Crisis & Community Care Unit, Adult Mental Health Inpatient Care Unit, the Older People’s Care Unit and the Children, Young People & Families Care Unit which includes Public Health, Physical Health, Forensic and Mental Health Services.

The Community and Specialist Care Group, compromises of three separate care units, community physical health services for Nottinghamshire (both urgent and planned care), Transgender Health and specialist services of which the largest is our Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services (IDD).

Our Making a Difference 2026–2029 Strategy sets out our ambition to help people live safer, healthier and more fulfilling lives through high-quality, inclusive physical and mental healthcare. As Deputy Care Group Director, you will play an important role in translating our four strategic pledges into action: We put patients first – ensuring care is safe, effective and continuously improving, with patients, families and carers at the heart of how we design and deliver services. We join up care – strengthening collaboration across the Trust and with our partners, supporting integrated and neighbourhood approaches to care and improving connections between physical and mental healthcare. We support our people – providing visible and compassionate leadership and creating an environment where colleagues across all professions feel safe, supported, valued and able to perform at their best. We use our resources wisely and responsibly – ensuring services are operationally and financially sustainable and embracing innovation, digital opportunities and new ways of working to deliver the best possible outcomes How we achieve our ambitions matters. Our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork underpin everything we do. We are looking for leaders who will actively role-model these values, creating an open and inclusive culture where people feel listened to, supported and empowered to improve. You will recognise and champion the contribution of our diverse professional workforce, including nursing, medicine, psychology, Allied Health Professionals and our wider clinical and non-clinical teams. You will understand that the best outcomes for patients and communities are achieved through genuine multidisciplinary leadership, collaboration and partnership. You will be an accomplished and credible senior leader with significant management and leadership experience within a complex healthcare environment. You will combine strategic thinking with a strong grip on operational delivery, demonstrating the confidence and resilience to navigate complexity, lead change and maintain momentum when priorities compete. You will build trusted relationships working collectively to provide strong multidisciplinary leadership and ensuring quality, safety and patient experience remain central to decision-making. You will be someone who values professional diversity, actively seeks different perspectives and creates the conditions in which all professions can contribute their expertise to improving care. Above all, you will be a visible, inclusive, compassionate and values-driven leader, committed to improving outcomes for the people and communities we serve. If successful, the role/s you will be offered will be based upon your skills, knowledge, experience and business need at time of appointment. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.