Assistant Director of High Secure Redevelopment Planning (Bank)

This is a senior and highly specialised leadership role requiring a strong clinical background and substantial experience of working at a senior level within a High Secure environment. As Assistant Director of High Secure Redevelopment Planning, you will bring expert clinical insight to the strategic leadership of one of the NHS's most complex and nationally significant redevelopment programmes. Your deep understanding of high secure mental health care, risk management, quality and safety, and workforce challenges will be essential to shaping clinically credible, safe and effective service models that meet national standards and commissioning expectations. Working closely with executive leaders, clinicians, NHS England and the National High Secure Network, you will lead transformation that improves patient outcomes, experience and safety, while ensuring the redevelopment is deliverable, sustainable and grounded in real-world high secure practice. This role offers a unique opportunity for an experienced senior clinician to influence national direction, drive innovation and leave a lasting impact on high secure mental health services.,

• Provide senior clinical leadership to the High Secure Redevelopment Programme, using extensive senior-level experience within a High Secure environment to ensure all redevelopment decisions are clinically credible, safe and aligned with national standards.
Lead the strategic, clinical, quality and operational development of the redevelopment, translating national policy, commissioning requirements and best practice into deliverable service models. Oversee quality, safety, care coordination and risk management to improve patient outcomes and experience, supported by advanced clinical knowledge of high secure mental health. Develop and deliver workforce strategies that are clinically appropriate, sustainable and responsive to the complexity of the High Secure population. Lead large-scale transformation and innovation, including digital and data-led approaches, ensuring safe implementation in clinical settings. Maintain executive-level engagement with NHS England, the Department of Health and national partners, acting as a senior clinical voice for Mersey Care, while holding responsibility for complex budgets and business case delivery to ensure financial sustainability without compromising quality or safety.

This role requires a registered clinician with substantial senior leadership experience in High Secure services, capable of balancing strategic transformation with the realities and risks of delivering safe, high-quality care in the most complex clinical environments.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.