Managing Director - Secure Acute and Crisis Division

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at a pivotal point in our journey. We are seeking an outstanding operational leader to take on the role of Managing Director for the Acute, Secure and Crisis Division., As Managing Director, you will hold overall accountability for the strategic and operational leadership of one of the Trust's most complex and high impact service areas. You will shape the future direction of acute, crisis, and secure mental health services while maintaining strong operational grip and delivery in the here and now. You will be the most senior operational leader within the Division, providing clear, visible leadership and overseeing all services through an agreed management structure. You will be responsible for developing and delivering strategy, ensuring performance targets are met and translating ambition into tangible improvements in patient care, quality, productivity, and outcomes., You will have full accountability for operational performance and clinical delivery within the Division, collaborating closely with the Clinical Director and the Director of Quality and Professions to ensure services meet expected standards of care, safety, and quality.

A central part of the role is leading transformational change at scale. Establish and sustain cohesive partnership arrangements across the Division to support delivery of Trust, local, and national priorities, while embedding innovation, service improvement, and continuous learning. The role involves engaging with complex, sensitive, and sometimes challenging issues, requiring confidence, emotional intelligence, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels. You will also regularly represent the Trust at external strategic and operational meetings. You will be accountable for the stewardship of a multi million pound budget, with responsibility for financial decision making, effective use of resources and cost efficiency programme delivery. This role combines strategic vision, operational credibility, and compassionate leadership, and who can inspire confidence, build trust, and deliver improvement in a complex and fast moving environment.

We are looking for someone who shares our commitment to improving the lives of people who use our services and who is motivated by the opportunity to lead lasting change., Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence