Divisional Director - Learning Disabilities and Forensics
NHS AfC: Band 9
Main area Learning Disabilities and Forensics Grade NHS AfC: Band 9 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 367-CORP-101756
Site 3 Bowlers Green, Kingsley Green, Harper Lane, Radlett, Hertfordshire, WD7 9HQ Town Radlett Salary £107,507 - £123,393 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS) Salary period Yearly Closing 29/11/2026 23:59
This role offers an opportunity to lead HPFT's Learning Disability and Forensic Division. As Divisional Director, you will provide visible, ambitious and values-led leadership across services that make a profound difference to people, families and communities at some of the most critical points in their lives.
Working as part of the Trust’s senior leadership team and reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will shape and deliver the Division’s strategy, business plan and transformation priorities. You will bring together operational grip, financial stewardship, and compassionate leadership to ensure services are safe, effective, sustainable and continuously improving.
Main duties of the job
The role offers significant scope to influence the future of Learning Disability and Forensic Services, working across HPFT and with system partners including primary care, Integrated Care Boards, local authority colleagues, and voluntary and community organisations. You will lead with purpose, strengthen partnerships, drive performance and help create innovative models of care that improve outcomes and experience.
We are looking for an inclusive, credible and resilient leader who can inspire teams, empower staff and keep service users and carers at the centre of every decision. If you are motivated by improving quality, reducing inequalities, delivering transformation and leading high-performing services in a complex health and care environment, this role provides an outstanding platform to make a lasting impact.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. E verything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Postgraduate management qualification at Masters level or equivalent level of experience
- Continuous management and personal development
Experience
- Extensive experience at a senior management level in the NHS or other public sector organisation of running operational services.
- Significant experience of working with senior clinicians and multi professional teams in achieving service improvement
- Significant experience of working with partners and stakeholders in delivering sensitive changes to services
- Evidence of achieving targets and objectives within a challenging environment
- Experience of planning and implementing long term strategy
- Track record in delivering financial plans and cost improvement programmes
Knowledge
- In depth professional specialist knowledge of a number of disciplines acquired through training and experience over a significant period.
- Breadth of knowledge across all health and social care services from primary to tertiary care
- Knowledge of National NHS and local Government strategies, policies and plans policy and standards of governance in particular those linked with the reshaping of Mental Health services.
- Knowledge of contracts and performance procedures
- Knowledge of local statutory planning frameworks
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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