Job summary
Are you an experienced leader with a passion for transforming mental health services?
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking aDelivery 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.
Main duties of the job
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 is a senior leadership role requiring 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.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within 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 surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or completion of a recognised senior leadership development programme (or equivalent experience)
Desirable
- Holds a relevant programme management qualification. (e.g. MSP)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of planning and directing complex programmes of work
- Experience of multi-agency partnership working and working constructively across organisational boundaries, building productive relationships
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of mental health services across a range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant experience
- Detailed working knowledge of the NHS and Local Government policies relating to Mental Health together with good knowledge of principal policy and financial determinants
- Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other legislative requirements
- Sound understanding of the modernisation and development issues facing mental health services and workforce demand and supply
Desirable
- Substantial experience in managing clinical community and in-patient services, budgets and people
- A proven track record of taking a co-production approach to change.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or completion of a recognised senior leadership development programme (or equivalent experience)
Desirable
- Holds a relevant programme management qualification. (e.g. MSP)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of planning and directing complex programmes of work
- Experience of multi-agency partnership working and working constructively across organisational boundaries, building productive relationships
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of mental health services across a range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant experience
- Detailed working knowledge of the NHS and Local Government policies relating to Mental Health together with good knowledge of principal policy and financial determinants
- Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other legislative requirements
- Sound understanding of the modernisation and development issues facing mental health services and workforce demand and supply
Desirable
- Substantial experience in managing clinical community and in-patient services, budgets and people
- A proven track record of taking a co-production approach to change.
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
