Role Overview
This senior, highly specialised leadership role – Assistant Director of High Secure Redevelopment Planning (Band 8c) – requires a strong clinical background and substantial senior‑level experience in a High Secure environment. It brings expert clinical insight to the strategic leadership of one of the NHS’s most complex and nationally significant redevelopment programmes, shaping clinically credible, safe and effective service models that meet national standards and commissioning expectations.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior clinical leadership to the High Secure Redevelopment Programme, ensuring all redevelopment decisions are clinically credible, safe and aligned with national standards.
- Lead the strategic, clinical, quality and operational development of the redevelopment, translating national policy, commissioning requirements and best practice into deliverable service models.
- Oversee quality, safety, care coordination and risk management to improve patient outcomes and experience.
- Develop and deliver workforce strategies that are clinically appropriate, sustainable and responsive to the complexity of the High Secure population.
- Lead large‑scale transformation and innovation, including digital and data‑led approaches, ensuring safe implementation in clinical settings.
- Maintain executive‑level engagement with NHS England, the Department of Health and national partners, acting as a senior clinical voice for Mersey Care, while holding responsibility for complex budgets and business case delivery to ensure financial sustainability without compromising quality or safety.
Qualifications
This role requires a registered clinician with substantial senior leadership experience in High Secure services, capable of balancing strategic transformation with the realities and risks of delivering safe, high‑quality care in the most complex clinical environments.
Benefits
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Equality and Diversity
We recognise the need to become more representative of the communities we serve. In the NHS England EDI Workforce Improvement Plan 2023 and NHS Workplace Race Equality Standard it is recognised that there is an underrepresentation of Black and Asian Minority colleagues (BME) in senior NHS Leadership positions. We are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on Anti‑racism and therefore encourage applications from BME communities. The Equality Act (2010) permits Mersey Care as a defined public authority to take steps to address inequity and underrepresentation as positive action, and this includes our approach for this position.
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This senior, highly specialised leadership role – Assistant Director of High Secure Redevelopment Planning (Band 8c) – requires a strong clinical background and substantial senior‑level experience in a High Secure environment. It brings expert clinical insight to the strategic leadership of one of the NHS’s most complex and nationally significant redevelopment programmes, shaping clinically credible, safe and effective service models that meet national standards and commissioning expectations.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior clinical leadership to the High Secure Redevelopment Programme, ensuring all redevelopment decisions are clinically credible, safe and aligned with national standards.
- Lead the strategic, clinical, quality and operational development of the redevelopment, translating national policy, commissioning requirements and best practice into deliverable service models.
- Oversee quality, safety, care coordination and risk management to improve patient outcomes and experience.
- Develop and deliver workforce strategies that are clinically appropriate, sustainable and responsive to the complexity of the High Secure population.
- Lead large‑scale transformation and innovation, including digital and data‑led approaches, ensuring safe implementation in clinical settings.
- Maintain executive‑level engagement with NHS England, the Department of Health and national partners, acting as a senior clinical voice for Mersey Care, while holding responsibility for complex budgets and business case delivery to ensure financial sustainability without compromising quality or safety.
Qualifications
This role requires a registered clinician with substantial senior leadership experience in High Secure services, capable of balancing strategic transformation with the realities and risks of delivering safe, high‑quality care in the most complex clinical environments.
Benefits
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Equality and Diversity
We recognise the need to become more representative of the communities we serve. In the NHS England EDI Workforce Improvement Plan 2023 and NHS Workplace Race Equality Standard it is recognised that there is an underrepresentation of Black and Asian Minority colleagues (BME) in senior NHS Leadership positions. We are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on Anti‑racism and therefore encourage applications from BME communities. The Equality Act (2010) permits Mersey Care as a defined public authority to take steps to address inequity and underrepresentation as positive action, and this includes our approach for this position.
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