Chief Strategy, Planning and Partnerships Officer
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- Employer:
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Location:
- Prescot, Merseyside
- Salary:
- VSM - Attractive salary
- Closing date:
- 9am Monday 31st March 2025
- Job Ref:
- GSe119924
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Description
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a new role of Chief Strategy, Planning and Partnerships Officer (CSPPO) who will be a voting member of our Board reporting to our Chief Executive Officer, Trish Bennett. Our CSPPO will be responsible for setting our strategic direction and overseeing a programme of transformation across our broad range of complex services. You will lead a broad portfolio and collaborate across our system, neighbourhoods and communities, translating national strategy to shape our future direction. This is a unique opportunity to influence at ICB, regional and national levels; to ensure our lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of our populations and workforce.
You will be an innovative strategic leader, with experience at or close to Board level, bringing a range of leadership experience across diverse portfolios. With a collaborative approach to strategy development, you will excel in complex partnership environments, working across organisational boundaries to foster innovation, strengthen relationships, and influence decisions that shape future healthcare services. With responsibility for contracting and commissioning, you will partner with colleagues across the Integrated Care System and be instrumental in improving health outcomes, addressing health inequalities, and achieving our vision.
Mersey Care is one of the country’s largest Trusts. We provide physical and mental health services, serving more than 1.4 million people across the North West. We provide specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.
We have 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, our remit includes the provision of a range of specialist services across wider regions and we are one of only three Trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health care.
Our 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 https://join-merseycare.co.uk/. 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, along with a Supporting Statement that addresses the criteria set out in the person specification, using examples to demonstrate how you meet the essential requirements.
- A completed fit and proper person form – the template can be downloaded from the same place as the job description.
- Detail any employment or education gaps.
- 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.
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