Chief Delivery Officer
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- Employer:
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Location:
- Prescot
- Salary:
- VSM - Attractive salary
- Closing date:
- 9am Monday 28th October 2024
- Job Ref:
- GSe113108
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Description
The role
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Chief Delivery Officer (CDO), who will be a voting member of the Board and will report to the new Chief Executive Officer, Trish Bennett, who will take up the post on the 1 November 2024. The CDO will be responsible for developing and maintaining effective systems, processes and capabilities to enable delivery of operational excellence across our broad and complex range of services.
The person
An inclusive, creative, inspirational and clinically qualified Chief Delivery Officer, you will bring extensive experience in operational delivery, transformation, and partnership building in complex, relevant healthcare services.
Already operating at, or close to Board level, you will provide leadership to the delivery of organisational structures that support innovation, continuous improvement and further embedding of a Just and Learning Culture. Leading the quality improvement strategy and the Centre for Perfect Care, you will bring substantial relevant operational experience to deliver consistent quality and performance. Working effectively with colleagues and partners across the wider Integrated Care System you will seek to improve outcomes for our populations and reduce the significant existing health inequalities. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future by developing and driving a cutting edge operating model that supports the Trust to achieve their vision.
The organisation
Mersey Care is one of the country’s largest Trusts providing physical and mental health services, serving more than 1.4 million people across the North West. The Trust provides specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.
The organisation has more than 11,000 dedicated staff providing services from around 230 sites as well as in patients’ homes. With an annual budget of more than £750m, the remit includes the provision of a range of specialist services across wider regions and is one of only three Trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health care.
The Trust’s vision is ‘to lead the way in perfect, whole person care that helps people of all ages live healthier lives.’
Please visit our recruitment website by clicking Apply below. For an informal discussion please contact our recruitment advisors Will McAlpine, Emily Smith or Emma Pickup from GatenbySanderson on will.mcalpine@gatenbysanderson.com or 07554 050 236.
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How to Apply
- Please submit an up to date copy of your CV that includes your address and contact details, highlighting and explaining any gaps in your employment history
- A supporting statement (no more than 4 pages) that addresses your motivation and vision for this role along with outcomes you have led for your organisations and your service users against following core elements of the person specification:
- Evidence of the impact of your transformational, values-based leadership
- Evidence of your experience in working in collaboration and in partnership across systems
- Evidence of where have you developed your organisation’s reputation for operational and clinical excellence
- A completed fit and proper person form – the template can be downloaded from the same place as the job description.
- You should provide the names, positions, organisations, and contact details for your referees, which must be your line managers and include your current and most recent employer. The referees should cover at least two roles as the minimum. Please note, should you be appointed, you will be required to provide references covering your last 6 years of employment as per the new NHS Fit and Proper Person regulations. Where there have been gaps in employment, this six year period will be extended accordingly. Referees will only be contacted for those proceeding to the final stage - we will always gain your permission before we contact referees.
- Let us know any difficulty you may have with the indicative timetable.
- Check that your contact details are correct before you submit.
Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an automated email to confirm that you have applied. If you do not receive this email, please make contact with GatenbySanderson.
Contact
The following consultants are managing this role and will be happy to answer any questions that are not covered in the person specification on the next webpage.
- Contact:
- Will McAlpine
- Telephone:
- 07554 050 236