Head of Allied Health Professionals - Secure Care Division

We are recruiting to an 8B Head of Allied Health Professionals post within The Secure Care Division. This is an exciting opportunity providing clinical and professional leadership to the Allied Health Professionals working across our inpatient and community based teams.They will also be part of the Allied Health Professionals leadership structure working alongside the Head of Allied Health Professions across the Trust and reporting professionally into the Executive Nurse Team., The Head of The Head of Allied Health Professionals is responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership to all the Allied Health Professionals within their portfolio.

They will represent Allied Health Professionals at all levels, ensuring the highest levels of clinical practice and professional standards are embedded and that the services delivered are personalised, patient centred and innovative.

They will ensure the Allied Health Professionals have the correct leadership, clinical and governance structures in place so they are able to practice in a safe, effective and efficient way to deliver high quality services.

For further details in regard to this post prospective candidates should contact:

Lisa Weston, Interim Associate Director of Nursing & Patient Experience - Secure Care Division

Krystina Stanway, Assistant Director of Allied Health Professions - Executive Therapies

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.