Employer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Brightfield Business Hub Town Peterborough Salary £76,965 - £88,682 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/04/2026 08:00
Assistant Director Specialist & Secured Services
Band 8c
Job overview
We are pleased to offer the opportunity for an Assistant Director for remand services within our Specialist and Secured Care Delivery Pathway Services at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This is a pivotal role in ensuring operational excellence over our remand prisons HMP Peterborough and HMP Bedford.
The post holder must be a resilient leader able to combine broad operational knowledge with strategic planning to empowering your teams, engage stakeholders and establish and embed our vision, values, and our culture in an inclusive environment that promotes innovation and a continued focus on excellent patient care.
The Assistant Director is responsible for operationally leading Specialist and Secured Services teams and working in partnership with Clinical Leads, Strategic Directors, Nursing and Multi-professional Directors and Commissioners to deliver outstanding patient services. You will be responsible for leading on all aspects of operational delivery, regulatory and performance compliance, financial efficiency, strategic governance and development of services within your portfolio.
The post holder will be accountable for establishing and maintaining effective structures and systems of control for the management of staff, including recruitment, appraisal, continuing professional development, and support of the Trust's Human Resource policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
· As part of the Senior management team you will provide leadership to staff, ensuring clear communication of Trust vision, priorities and expectations to ensure the engagement of teams to deliver services of the highest quality
· You will role model positive leadership behaviours by living the Trusts values and visibly leading on promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the position.
· You will be responsible for managing the complex nature of the business, ensuring that the appropriate strategic plans are delivered within the operating framework.
· You will be a key member of the senior management team driving development of Specialist & Secured Services by working with internal and external partners.
· You will provide input and challenge to clinical and business plans where necessary.
· You will be responsible for identifying risk and implementing mitigation actions, and report significant risks and proposed actions through the Trust Governance processes with onward escalation to the Board as appropriate.
· You will foster an effective working relationships with each of the partners to achieve effective use of resources or enhanced quality and productivity, as appropriate.
· You will be expected to participate in on call arrangements.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust. We have a well established record of providing healthcare excellence within the health and justice arena. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. Our philosophy is to provide trauma informed care based on mutual respect, striving to support recovery and independence.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants for this innovative and dynamic role should have values in line with our Trust values and will need to have demonstrable experience of monitoring and managing performance & quality targets and budgets at a high level. They will have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and will need to understand and report on complex performance information.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Skills
* Skilled in analysis of complex information
* Skilled in the areas of financial management and cost saving initiatives
Experience
* Significant experience in a senior leadership role
* Experience of working with key senior stakeholders at a Regional/National level
* Experience in Senior leadership roles in secured services
Knowledge
* In depth knowledge of NHS systems and processes
* Knowledge of strategic and long term planning intentions in relation to secured services
* Knowledge of secured service health indicators and KPI's
By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.
You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.
Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,
At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly, the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary.
Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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