Divisional Director - Acute and Urgent Care
Job Description
Job summary
This role offers an opportunity to lead HPFT's Adult Acute and Urgent Care 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 acute and urgent mental health care, working across HPFT and with system partners including primary care, the Integrated Care Board, local authority colleagues, acute providers 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.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
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. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full details of this position.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate management qualification at Masters level or equivalent level of experience
- Continuous management and personal development
Experience
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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.
- Understanding of the regulatory framework for Health and Social Care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
99 Waverley Rd
St Albans
Herfordshire
AL3 5TQ
United Kingdom
