Main area Nursing and Midwifery Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days) Job ref 350-CC7005920
Site Various Sites across the SPMMHS Mersey Care Footprint - Mainly Hollins Park and Liverpool Women's Hospital. Town Merseyside Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59 Interview date 14/03/2025
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
Are you an experienced manager dedicated to improving the lives of women, birthing people, and their families during the perinatal period?
Cheshire & Merseyside Specialist Perinatal and Maternal Mental Health Service (C&M SPMMHS) is seeking an experienced manager committed to delivering high-quality, effective care to our communities. We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and innovative individual who can quickly adapt to changing circumstances while driving transformational change.
Our mission is to ensure that women who are experiencing, or are at risk of, significant mental health challenges during or after pregnancy receive timely, compassionate, trauma-informed, and recovery-focused care. We aim to support family relationships, helping them thrive.
If you believe you’re the ideal candidate, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Operational Manager will play a key role within SPMMHS, supporting the Clinical Services Manager in the effective management and deployment of operational services across the service and the wider division. The post holder will ensure a consistent, high-quality approach to service delivery, underpinned by standardised processes and protocols. They will work closely with clinical colleagues across the service and our communities to learn from past experiences and shape the future of our care.
C&M SPMMHS is jointly provided by Mersey Care and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership, offering highly specialised assessment and treatment for women and birthing people, babies, and families from pregnancy through to 24 months. Maternal Mental Health Service is hosted by Mersey Care, with a particular focus on perinatal loss and trauma. Perinatal mental health remains a national priority within the NHS Long Term Plan, with a strong financial case for investment in prevention and the long-term system-wide benefits this brings to Children and Young People Mental Health Services, adult mental health services, A&E, and physical healthcare settings.
The post holder will be responsible for overseeing services across our footprint, with primary bases at the Merseyside area locations (Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Hollins Park). The role will require travel across various sites within the footprint.
Working for our organisation
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of the main responsibilities of this post please see details within the job description and person specification, attached to this advert.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* High professional standards
* Change oriented
Skills
* Ability to analyse and implement financial reports and data.
* Analytical and problem solving skills.
* Research and audit methods.
* Proven skills in effectively chairing meetings.
* Proven persuasion and negotiation skills.
* To embrace a leadership style which inspires confidence in others.
* To be visible, approachable and accessible to staff.
* Ability to demonstrate values of Mersey Care through own actions and behaviour.
* Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
* Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills.
* Innovation and creativity in decision making
* Evidence of presentation skills
Qualifications
* Evidence of on-going professional development.
* Educated to masters degree level or equivalent experience
Experience/ Knowledge
* Minimum of 3 years senior management experience in a large complex organisation.
* Experience of leadership and management of complex change management programmes.
* Experience of successfully defining, managing and leading change initiatives to support organisational changes.
* Good understanding of workforce development.
* Experience and ability to work under pressure and meet competing deadlines.
* Knowledge of developments in mental health policy and legislation.
* Experience of successfully engaging multidisciplinary teams.
* Expertise in managing people, managing conflict and balancing demand for resources with availability and prioritisation of same.
* Experience in a care giving setting
Contact Information
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Annie Kelly Job title Clinical Service Manager Email address annie.kelly@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 07341 800331 Additional information
We encourage and welcome candidates getting in touch to discuss the post, please do contact me should you have any questions or require further discussion.
FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE
At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.
You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.
You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.
You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.
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