Job summary Are you an experienced leader with a passion for transforming mental health services? Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Delivery Director - Mental Health to drive strategic change and deliver high-impact transformation across our mental health portfolio.
This is a full-time position on a fixed term contract for 12 months.
About the Role
As Delivery Director, you will lead the All-Age Mental Health Transformation Programme, shaping services across community mental health, inpatient care, and crisis/urgent care pathways. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you’ll work collaboratively with system partners, clinicians, people with lived experience and the voluntary sector, to ensure services are innovative, inclusive, and aligned with national priorities.
This senior leadership role requires vision, resilience, and the ability to navigate complexity. You will champion co‑production, foster strong partnerships, and ensure robust governance to deliver measurable improvements in quality, performance, and sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide strategic leadership for mental health transformation programmes across Gloucestershire.
* Drive service redesign and workforce modernisation, embedding best practice and innovation.
* Collaborate with NHS, VCSE, and local authority partners to deliver integrated care solutions.
* Oversee programme planning, delivery, and assurance, ensuring outcomes meet system-wide objectives.
* Lead stakeholder engagement, including service users and carers, to ensure inclusive and co‑produced approaches.
* Report progress to executive teams and system boards, maintaining transparency and accountability.
About the Trust
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5,000 colleagues working across 55 sites and people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff and Pulse surveys show high engagement, with 61% of colleagues giving us their views. 72% would recommend the Trust as a place to work, 76% would recommend our standard of care, and 81% say care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority.
We are committed to becoming a Great Place to Work with top‑quartile performance in our surveys.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
* Master’s Degree or equivalent experience.
* Management qualification or completion of a recognised senior leadership development programme (or equivalent experience).
Desirable Qualifications
* Relevant programme management qualification, e.g. MSP.
Essential Experience
* Significant experience of planning and directing complex programmes of work.
* Experience of multi‑agency partnership working, building productive relationships across organisational boundaries.
* Highly developed specialist knowledge of mental health services across a range of procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant experience.
* Detailed working knowledge of NHS and Local Government policies relating to mental health, and good knowledge of principle policy and financial determinants.
* Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other legislative requirements.
* Sound understanding of modernisation and development issues facing mental health services and workforce demand and supply.
Desirable Experience
* Substantial experience managing clinical community and in‑patient services, budgets and people.
* Proven track record of taking a co‑production approach to change.
Details
Date posted: 12 December 2025
Pay scheme: £91,342 to £105,337 a year per annum
Band: Band 8d
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full time
Reference number: 327-25-1045
Location: Edward Jenner Court, 1010 Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester, GL3 4AW
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18) are also subject to this requirement.
Employer Details
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester
GL3 4AW
Employer Website
https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/
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