Deputy Director of Integration and Strategic Partnerships | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a values-led senior leader to join our team as Deputy Director of Integration and Strategic Partnerships (secondment to 31 March 2027). This is a real chance to shape what comes next: build the partnerships that matter, unlock new collaborations, and turn ambition into delivery for our communities-with neighbourhood health and the three NHS 10-year plan shifts at the heart of it.

We're looking for a credible, collaborative leader who can:

Spot opportunities and turn them into new partnerships

Build strategic collaborations with a clear line to delivery

Work confidently across system boundaries to get things done

Build and sustain relationships across health and care

Influence at pace-mobilise others and move work on without direct authority

Join an ambitious Trust with an innovative culture - and make a tangible difference, quickly. If you're driven by partnership working and neighbourhood health, we'd love to hear from you.

Prior to interview you must have agreement from your line manager to be released for secondment with a start date of 1 July 2026 at latest.

At Mersey Care we strive to continually build on our values and beliefs that will allow all our workforce to develop their potential and bring their whole self into the organisation. In order to strengthen our inclusivity and diversity, we recognise the need to ensure we become more representative of the communities we serve. This is recognised in the NHS England EDI Workforce Improvement Plan 2023 and NHS Workplace Race Equality Standard that in senior NHS Leadership positions, there is an underrepresentation of Black and Asian Minority colleagues (BME). As an organisation we are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on Anti-racism and so are employing positive action where we know there is underrepresentation and for this position therefore, we encourage applications from people who are from BME communities. The Equality Act (2010) permits Mersey Care as a defined public authority, to take steps to address inequity and underrepresentation as positive action, and this includes our
approach for this position.