Service Director for Mental Health, LD Urgent Care & Inpatients

Job overview

1 x Fixed Term contract/secondment opportunity for up to 9 months

*Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment*

Mental Health & Learning Disability Hospitals and Mental Health Urgent Care is one of 5 operational directorates responsible for the delivery of clinical services within GHC. The directorate has an annual turnover of over £30m and has over 600 colleagues working within it.

An exciting opportunity has arisen, for the right candidate, to provide strategic and operational strategic leadership for this directorate.

The directorate consists of Later Life and Working Age Adult Wards Including a PICU, Rehabilitation, Low Secure and Learning Disability Inpatient units as well as Crisis and Home Treatment Teams, Mental Health Liaison and Criminal Justice Liaison Teams.

Main duties of the job

Ensuring effective day to day operational delivery, supporting system flow by working closely with internal and external partner and stakeholders,developing new ways of delivering services and delivering services within a defined financial envelope are all key aspects of the role.

We are looking for a senior operational manager with experience within the NHS in acute and/or community mental health services. The ideal candidate would be someone with the demonstrable ability to think creatively about the future delivery of services in partnership with stakeholders and service users, their carers and their families. You will have the ability to influence and inspire internal and external stakeholders at all levels, with a strong people focus.

Your solid communication and influencing skills, together with political astuteness and resilience will ensure you must have the ability to build positive collaborative relationships within the Trust and in the broader health and social care system.

Continuing with the positive relationships with our local Acute Trust, Local Authority and Primary Care Networks as part of our commitment to the ICS are key are key to this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs.  Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.  So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.