Rotherham Care Group Director

NHS; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Rotherham is seeking a Care Group Director to oversee clinical services and drive operational performance. The role requires significant experience in management within healthcare, strong leadership skills, and a passion for improving patient outcomes. The Trust aims to transform its services through community-driven strategies. Candidates should have substantial experience in leading complex service areas and demonstrating success in service redesign and operational delivery. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape healthcare delivery and outcomes in the region.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Must understand current healthcare policy and its implications.
• 3-5 years experience as a senior manager within the NHS or similar.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for overall operations within the Care Group.
• Provide leadership to clinical services.
• Work closely with multiple service areas.

Skills

Operational management

Leadership and clinical engagement

Excellent communication

Large-scale change leadership

Analytical skills

Quality and financial sustainability

Partnership relationship management

Community-powered services

Strategic leadership

Education

Degree level education

Master's level education

Job description

Go back Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT

Rotherham Care Group Director

The closing date is 11 December 2025

We hope you are considering joining Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH). The Trust is striving to be different and working hard to become a community powered NHS organisation, focusing on significantly transforming patient outcomes and ceaselessly tackle health inequalities. This is really an exciting time and a real chance for you to help shape what we do and be part of our ambitions.

We are progressing on our five-year strategy, and 28 Promises, launched in 2023. You would join a team that is driving this ambitious and radical five-year strategy, which puts our communities that we serve at the very heart of our Trust.

We have 5 Clinical Care Groups, each with a Care Group Director, with a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) reporting to the Care Group Director. We are seeking to recruit a substantive Care Group Director with accountability for the Rotherham Care Group.

You have day-to-day accountability for everything within the Care Group. This role is within the wider Clinical Leadership Executive, reporting to Board, which shapes Trust decision making. You are an excellent system partner, a community and patient advocate with a strong focus on delivery. You understand and will positively influence patient flow and can continue to develop our directorate leadership. We are seeking a colleague who has experience in working with & leading clinicians, in particular medical colleagues including Primary Care.

Main duties of the job

This role will report directly to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) who is accountable for the day-to-day delivery of effective and safe clinical services across all the clinical Care Groups. You will join four other established Care Group Directors and the Deputy Chief Operating Officer, who work as one team.

The Care Group Director provides leadership to all their clinical services which are Adult Mental Health Services, for Rotherham. This is with the SLT which constitutes three Care Group Clinical Directors and a Deputy Care Group Director.

Please apply if you are passionate about patient outcomes; the RDaSH strategy, values and focus on community, and can demonstrate:

• significant experience of operationally managing and improving clinical service delivery
• strong and demonstrable skills in leadership and clinical engagement
• excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce high quality written material
• ability to lead and deliver on large-scale change
• sharp analytical skills and is data driven
• a record of delivering on performance, safety & quality and financial sustainability
• foster strong partnership relationships; also, with community voices & those with lived experience
• feels passionate about taking forward community powered services
• a demonstrable ability to lead strategically across different services and systems

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a relevant area.
• Educated to master's level or equivalent.

Experience

• Must have an understanding of the background of and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this for RDaSH.
• An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, the individual provider and commissioning organisations.
• Consolidated experience as a senior Manager.
• 3-5 years' experience as a senior Manager within the NHS, Local Authority, Business or similar organisation.
• Minimum 4 years' experience of staff Management.
• Successful track record of leading complex multiple service areas.
• Experience of complex financial and clinical redesign.
• Recent demonstrable success in delivering high standards of operational performance.
• Recent demonstrable success in influencing and delivering successful service redesign at scale
• Experience of effective team working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of exercising effective results orientated leadership
• Demonstrable evidence of sound financial planning and HR management at a senior leve
• Show a high level of understanding and experience in the NHS commercial development.
• Previous experience of working at senior management level within the NHS.

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.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT