Job summary
Devon Partnership Trust is seeking a dynamic Service Director to shape and lead our Secure Services Directorate.
Are you a visionary leader ready to drive transformative change in secure services?
This pivotal role will define and reinvent inpatient service provision ensuring wards meet population needs. You will also oversee our Integrated Non-Custodial and Community Forensic Services and other teams. You will lead the strategic direction of the directorate including capital estates, digital improvements and innovative thinking to deliver integrated, high-quality care across our directorate. You will spearhead multi-professional collaboration, ensuring seamless teamwork across medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
Key Responsibilities
- Multi-Professional Collaboration Foster a culture of shared expertise and seamless coordination between medical, nursing, and allied health professionals.
- Operational Transformation Oversee the restructuring and optimisation of secure care services to improve efficiency, accessibility, and responsiveness.
- Patient-Centred Care Champion initiatives to enhance the patient experience, ensuring continuity of care and robust clinical governance.
- Leadership & Change Management Inspire and empower teams through transformational leadership, innovation and best practice.
- Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance Ensure secure care services adhere to healthcare regulations, safety standards, and evidence-based practice.
Main duties of the job
- Be accountable for delivering the DPT strategy by developing robust long-term business plans, setting relevant operational targets, and ensuring activities are carried out within agreed budgets and standards.
- Lead, alongside the Clinical Director, the effective functioning of governance structures, roles, and responsibilities based on multi-disciplinary approaches, emphasising collaborative leadership and team working.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with all place-based partners, including third sector organisations, local authorities, and acute trusts.
- Ensure mechanisms are in place to involve key stakeholders in all aspects of service planning and delivery, develop culturally sensitive services, and ensure fair access to services regardless of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, race, or disability.
- Undertake workforce redesign, including formal consultations as required.
- Represent the organisation at stakeholder meetings and forums.
- Take a leadership role in trust-wide programs as needed
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