Are you a visionary leader ready to drive transformative change in secure services?
Devon Partnership Trust is seeking a dynamic Service Director to shape and lead our Secure Services Directorate.
This pivotal role will define and reinvent inpatient service provision ensuring wards meet population needs. You will also oversee our Integrated Non-Custodial and Community Forensic Services and other teams. You will lead the strategic direction of the directorate including capital estates, digital improvements and innovative thinking to deliver integrated, high-quality care across our directorate. You'll spearhead multi-professional collaboration, ensuring seamless teamwork across medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
Key Responsibilities:
* Multi-Professional Collaboration – Foster a culture of shared expertise and seamless coordination between medical, nursing, and allied health professionals.
* Operational Transformation – Oversee the restructuring and optimisation of secure care services to improve efficiency, accessibility, and responsiveness.
* Patient-Centred Care – Champion initiatives to enhance the patient experience, ensuring continuity of care and robust clinical governance.
* Leadership & Change Management – Inspire and empower teams through transformational leadership, innovation and best practice.
* Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance – Ensure secure care services adhere to healthcare regulations, safety standards, and evidence-based practice.
Main duties of the job
Be accountable for delivering the DPT strategy by developing robust long‑term business plans, setting relevant operational targets, and ensuring activities are carried out within agreed budgets and standards.
* Lead, alongside the Clinical Director, the effective functioning of governance structures, roles, and responsibilities based on multi‑disciplinary approaches, emphasising collaborative leadership and teamwork.
* Establish and maintain effective relationships with all place‑based partners, including third‑sector organisations, local authorities, and acute trusts.
* Ensure mechanisms are in place to involve key stakeholders in all aspects of service planning and delivery, develop culturally sensitive services, and ensure fair access to services regardless of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, race, or disability.
* Undertake workforce redesign, including formal consultations as required.
* Represent the organisation at stakeholder meetings and forums.
* Take a leadership role in trust‑wide programmes as needed.
Current Services:
Our Secure Care Directorate is currently made up of the following services:
* Low secure inpatient wards
* Integrated Non‑Custodial Health Care
* Offender Personality Disorder
* Medical Management of Problematic Sexual Arousal
* Community Forensic Services
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high‑quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job responsibilities
The Service Director plays a critical role in the success of the Trust. The post holder will ensure the achievement of the following fundamental and underlying activities:
* Ensuring a focus on quality and productivity throughout the organisation to provide the highest possible level of care within agreed resources.
* Leading and modelling a culture that values and supports staff to thrive, recognising that safety, learning, and culture are inextricably linked, and enabling an approach that is cognisant of human factors.
* Ensuring that staff concerns are raised, investigated, and acted upon.
* Promoting the integration of physical and mental health and wellbeing, employing physical, psychological, and social approaches with an emphasis on social inclusion, recovery, and the interface between physical and mental health and care services.
* Engendering and maintaining a culture of financial control and financial awareness among all services.
* Engaging clinical and non‑clinical staff in the business of the Trust and the Directorate, ensuring effective systems of communication.
* Embedding service improvements into everyday practice.
* Ensuring an appropriate focus on training and education, including professional and personal development for all staff, alongside aims for research and service delivery.
* Representing the organization in various forums to ensure the Trust strategy aligns with system developments.
* Managing the overall financial, quality, and performance management of the Directorate, ensuring contribution to the Trust's efficiency targets.
* Ensuring that Directorate systems and processes are fit for purpose and that staff are trained and equipped to operate them.
* Working in partnership with the Clinical Director to implement and manage systems and processes across professional groups, ensuring safe and effective clinical leadership in clinical teams.
* Ensuring all staff operate to the standards outlined by the CQC and comply with Trust policies and procedures, and managing risk with robust systems.
* Providing clear and inspirational direction and support to staff, recruiting, motivating, developing, and retaining appropriate staff.
* Promoting joint working with local authorities and primary care to develop coherent multidisciplinary teams and care pathways across primary, secondary, and acute care.
* Collaborating with Integrated Place Partnerships on wider development projects and ensuring service user needs are properly met and managed across organizational boundaries.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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