General Manager

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic General Manager to join our team and support us in continuing to develop our All-Age Forensic Community Services. We would like a leader who is values based, forward thinking and has a vision and will inspire their teams. You will have a strong track record in operational management and service improvement with well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.

Our forensic community services include:

Forensic CAMH services.

Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service for Learning Disability and/or Autism.

Adult Forensic Community Services (the Bretton Centre Forensic Community Transition Team and the Specialist Forensic Community Team).

This post holder will be responsible for managing, developing and implementing processes and procedures that facilitates service user pathways and system wide working and approaches to risk management. The post will drive continuous improvement through close working relationships with system leads.

You will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and leadership skills whilst demonstrating compassion, flexible thinking and the ability to prioritise a highly demanding and diverse workload. You will need to have experience at working across systems with proven ability to be able to engage other services and providers to meet the needs of our service user group.

In this post you will provide a valuable operational lens, work closely as part of a trio leadership structure and be supported by clinical leads and quality colleagues to ensure the efficient delivery of high quality services, and improve the quality of service user outcomes.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.