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Operational Team Manager | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2025 |
| Location: | Eccles, M30 0BL |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7162300/350-SC7162300 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an Operational Team Manager to our established Specialist Support Team (SST) for Greater Manchester providing specialist assessment and intervention for autistic people and people who have a learning disability and are at risk of admission to hospital or of coming into contact with criminal justice agencies.
The successful candidate will have responsibility for the development of staff and for the effective delivery of evidence based, person centred services. You will report directly to the Clinical Services Manager within the Secure Care Division and work in close partnerships with the Clinical Lead, the Integrated Care Board, the Lead Provider Collaborative and Service Leads across the Greater Manchester region.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Main Responsibilities:
1. Management and leadership of the Specialist Support Team with clear goals and objectives that are shared and understood.
2. Effective collaboration with all partner agencies providing an integrated service working alongside the statutory Learning Disability services and the independent sector across Greater Manchester.
3. To develop a highly skilled workforce that offers specialist skills and knowledge to support the wider health and social care provision.
4. The post holder will be responsible for maintaining pathways between service providers to ensure seamless provision of support. This will include in-patient services and existing community provision.
5. The post holder will contribute to the development and implementation of robust operational policies for the Specialist Support Team that promotes collaborative and integrated service delivery within the Policy Framework of the Division and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
6. To deliver outcomes led service developed specifically to respond to the Greater Manchester Learning Disability and Autism Programme.
Please see the Job Description and person specification for more details.
This advert closes on Monday 26 May 2025