Divisional Director - Mental Health Care Division

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Mental Health Director to join our team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. This is a pivotal role in leading and shaping the delivery of high-quality mental health services across our trust. Reporting directly to the Chief Delivery Officer, 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 but will not be a board director post. This post is central to providing strategic leadership to the successful operation of the Mental Health Division in Mersey Care.

The post holder will have experience of working at a senior level within Mental Health Services and has operated successfully with a large portfolio of services. The overall aim is to improve health, clinical outcomes, patient experience, and productivity whilst meeting financial, legal, and contractual requirements. Interviews will be held w/c 19th May 2025.

• Provide strategic leadership of the division that delivers a consistent high quality of services to service users; a division that has robust governance to manage clinical risks, performance, customer engagement and delivery of divisional strategic programmes and CIPs.
• Provide strategic leadership for performance improvement issues across the division ensuring that use of Informatics and business intelligence is integral to the ongoing service design and quality improvement agendas.
• Provide strategic leadership on the development and implementation of divisional performance improvement plans and related policies.
• Ensure operational objectives are clear, consistent, and mutually supportive across the Trust, that they balance strategic objectives and operational delivery.
• Provide robust assurance to the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Board and external stakeholders around the areas of responsibility.
• Develop, promote, and monitor relevant frameworks, plans and policies, to apply across the whole organisation, arising from the Trust’s own strategy or from interpreting national strategy and policy, and relevant legislation.
• Plan, organise and implement highly complex projects affecting all staff and departments for the delivery of benefits to improve patient care.

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. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lee Taylor Job title: Chief Delivery Officer