Care Group Director: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 112,782 to 129,783 £ / Year

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is creating a new generation of Care Group leadership.

We are seeking four outstanding Care Group Directors to lead our Trust wide Care Groups and play a pivotal role in delivering on the Trust’s vision of Great Places for Care and Great Places to Work.

Each Care Group Director will be the single accountable leader for one of GMMH’s four Care Groups, with full responsibility for quality, safety, operational performance, workforce, transformation and financial delivery across a substantial portfolio of services. The posts report directly to the Deputy Chief Executive / Chief Operating Officer and form a critical part of the Trust’s senior leadership structure.

As a Care Group Director, you will lead at scale, influence Trust-wide strategy, provide assurance to the Executive Leadership Team and Board, and help shape the future of mental health, learning disability, autism and specialist services across GMMH.

Main duties of the job

You will lead one of the following Care Groups:

Acute Care Group

Leading urgent care, crisis and inpatient services, ensuring safe, high-quality care, improved patient flow and delivery of key quality standards.

Community Care Group

Leading community mental health, neighbourhood, older adult and locality services, supporting community transformation and population health improvement.

Specialist Care Group

Leading specialist services including children and young people, addictions, talking therapies and other specialist pathways.

Rehabilitation & Forensic Care Group

Leading forensic, rehabilitation, secure and justice services, including prison mental health, supporting high-quality care, recovery, safety and system partnerships.

As Care Group Director, you will:

  • Lead one of GMMH’s four Trust-wide Care Groups.
  • Translate strategy into measurable operational delivery.
  • Hold full accountability for quality, safety, workforce, operational performance and financial sustainability.
  • Drive large-scale transformation and improvement programmes.
  • Reduce unwarranted variation and improve consistency of care.
  • Lead a senior multi-professional leadership team.
  • Build strong partnerships across Greater Manchester and beyond.
  • Ensure the voices of service users, carers and communities influence decision-making.
  • Provide visible, compassionate and inclusive leadership.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • oA recognised mental health clinical qualification and current professional registration.
  • oSignificant senior leadership experience within mental health services.
  • oExperience of leading large, complex operational or clinical portfolios.
  • oA track record of delivering improvements in quality, safety, performance and financial outcomes simultaneously.
  • oExperience of leading major organisational change and transformation.

Desirable

  • Formal qualification or advanced training in quality improvement, transformation or system leadership.
  • Experience of place-based, provider collaborative or wider system leadership.
  • Experience as Senior Responsible Owner for a major transformation or service redesign programme.

Essentail

Essential

  • Values based leadership approaches
  • Evidence of understanding self and impact on others

Desirable

  • Evidence of positive impact on others

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).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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