Main area: Nursing and Midwifery
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days)
Job ref: 350-CC7005920
Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
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: 06/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 14/03/2025
Operational Services Manager
Band 8a
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Additional Information
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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.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
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