Service Director

This pivotal role will define and reinvent inpatient service provision ensuring wards meet population needs. You will also oversee our Integrated Non-Custodial and Community Forensic Services and other teams. You will lead the strategic direction of the directorate including capital estates, digital improvements and innovative thinking to deliver integrated, high-quality care across our directorate. Youll spearhead multi-professional collaboration, ensuring seamless teamwork across medical, nursing, and allied health professions.,

• Multi-Professional Collaboration Foster a culture of shared expertise and seamless coordination between medical, nursing, and allied health professionals.
• Operational Transformation Oversee the restructuring and optimisation of secure care services to improve efficiency, accessibility, and responsiveness.
• Patient-Centred Care Champion initiatives to enhance the patient experience, ensuring continuity of care and robust clinical governance.
• Leadership & Change Management Inspire and empower teams through transformational leadership, innovation and best practice.
• Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance Ensure secure care services adhere to healthcare regulations, safety standards, and evidence-based practice., Be accountable for delivering the DPT strategy by developing robust long-term business plans, setting relevant operational targets, and ensuring activities are carried out within agreed budgets and standards.
• Lead, alongside the Clinical Director, the effective functioning of governance structures, roles, and responsibilities based on multi-disciplinary approaches, emphasising collaborative leadership and team working.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with all place-based partners, including third sector organisations, local authorities, and acute trusts.
• Ensure mechanisms are in place to involve key stakeholders in all aspects of service planning and delivery, develop culturally sensitive services, and ensure fair access to services regardless of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, race, or disability.
• Undertake workforce redesign, including formal consultations as required.
• Represent the organisation at stakeholder meetings and forums.
• Take a leadership role in trust-wide programs as needed
Current Services: Our Secure Care Directorate is currently made up of the following services:
• Medium Secure Inpatient wards
• Low secure Inpatient wards
• Integrated Non-Custodial Health Care
• Offender Personality Disorder
• Medical Management of Problematic Sexual Arousal
• Community Forensic Services
  
  We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

About Devon Partnership Trust We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery. We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do