Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated individual with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills to lead the delivery of GMMH’s Community Transformation Programme.
Aligned to the NHS Ten year health plan, the opportunity to deliver a comprehensive change to the way the Trust works with its partners to deliver care, providing integrated mental health services that are inclusive and accessible, supporting people’s mental health needs and enabling them to live well in their community.
The postholder will lead a large, multi-disciplinary team, to implement the agreed transformed community care model, whilst needing to flex the approach to account for locality differences in demand and staffing. This will involve working with operational and clinical leads from across the Trust, and working closely with people with lived experience, carers, staff representatives and commissioners.
Not only would the individual need to be expert at managing complex large programmes of work, influencing people in different organisations (local authorities and ICB) but would need a good understanding of mental health community services.
Main duties of the job
·Lead the design, planning, and execution of GMMH’s community transformation programme, including exiting of a number of Section 75 agreements with local authorities.
·Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders including commissioners, operational and clinical teams and partner organisations. This involves representing GMMH as the senior responsible officer, with responsibility for delivery of the transformed community model of care.
·Effectively engage service users and service user groups in the development of proposals.
·Provide expert advice and assurance to senior stakeholders and GMMH’s Board of Directors.
·Effectively management delivery team to ensure delivery of milestones within agreed timescales and budgets, managing risks as necessary.
·Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and collaboration.
·Ensure appropriate training, development, and performance management.
·Represent the Trust at regional and national forums.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached detailed job description and person specification
Staff Benefits:
1. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
2. Excellent pension
3. Cycle to work scheme
4. Salary sacrifice car scheme
5. Wellbeing programme
6. fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Extensive experience in leading large-scale transformation programmes in healthcare.
8. Significant experience in working with variety of stakeholders including service users, carers, staff colleagues, delivery partners and commissioners within programmes
Desirable criteria
9. Understanding of mental health community services
Skills
Essential criteria
10. Strong service design skills
11. Strong people skills - to motivate internal team members and influence external partners
12. Strong communicator - written and verbal skills - the ability to express highly complex concepts and ideas
The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to 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 throughout your employment with GMMH.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
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Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click .
If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.
The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it.
Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.