General Manager - Medium Secure Forensic Services

We are seeking a post holder for the exciting and diverse role of General Manager to lead the provision of patient-centred services at Wathwood Hospital.

You will be highly competent, credible leader, bringing your wealth of experience to the role, always behaving in accordance with the Trust values and wear your inspirational qualities on your sleeve to encourage others to deliver your vision. You are motivational, encouraging, an active listener, inspire people to be their authentic self at work and have the patient at the centre of every decision you make.

Main duties of the job

You can pivot quickly between competing priorities, andare highly motivated, able to influence others with your diplomatic and inclusive approach to leadership and the delivery of a high-quality service. You will lead, direct and co-ordinate a high quality, safe, effective, and efficient service provision to meet the needs of patients, their carers and families.

Reporting directly to the Care Group Deputy Director, you will be a senior leader in the care unit, spanning all areas of operational activity, providing strategic support to the Clinical Director and oversee delivery of service development and improvement. You are responsible for ensuring and strengthening partnership working and collaborative integration with partnership agencies.

You will lead on the commissioning and securing of funding to support the development of service, in addition to leading on developing models of service delivery with Commissioners, users and carers that reflect national policy and local need.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!