Deputy Divisional Director - Secure Care Division

Reporting directly to the Divisional Director, the post holder will be required to work in collaboration with the wider Executive Team and Trust Board to deliver this agenda and attend executive management group meetings as an active member when necessary but will not be a board director post.

This post is central to providing strategic leadership to the successful operation of the Secure Care Division (including 210 bed High Secure Hospital), and the transformation agenda. The post holder will have experience of working within Secure Mental Health Services, including High Secure. The overall aim is to improve health, clinical outcomes, patient experience, and productivity whilst meeting financial, legal, and contractual requirements.

Main duties of the job

Provide high level operational and strategic business planning and leadership to ensure that the division provides high quality patient care and achieves its performance objectives.

Take responsibility for driving forward corporate and cross cutting programmes of work and service improvements.

Build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders, including service users/carers and strategic partners representing the Secure Division at national forums relating to the development and provision of secure services.

Drive the cultural change required to embed the Vision and Values of the Trust and Just and Learning Culture principles across the Secure Division.

Responsible for the effective operational management of all clinical staff and clinical processes within the Secure Division.

Development of effective clinical processes/operational policies and well-functioning multidisciplinary teams.

Ensure that effective multi-disciplinary decision making informs the delivery of care at all stages of the assessment, treatment and aftercare processes.

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.