Job summary
- Main area
- Care Group Director
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 376-DCCG-0505
- Employer
- Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Honeysuckle Lodge
- Town
- Doncaster
- Salary
- £94,356 - £108,814 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/10/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/10/2026
Employer heading
Care Group Director
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Job overview
We have 5 Clinical Care Groups, each with a Care Group Director (CGD), who leads their Senior Leadership Team (SLT). This is a serious opportunity for an experienced senior leader to take up this role at a pivotal time. The Children’s Care Group delivers a wide range of high-quality physical and mental health services for children, young people, and their families across the Trust footprint.
The CGD holds day-to-day accountability for everything within the Care Group. This relies on a depth of experience; a candidate who is outcomes-focused, a data informed leader who strives to deliver on all the things the Trust are wanting to achieve.
All CGD are part of the Clinical Leadership Executive, which reports to the Board, informing Trust decision making.
Main duties of the job
The role reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), who is accountable for the delivery of effective and safe clinical services (i.e. the Care groups). You will join four other established Care Group Directors; Deputy Chief Operating Officer and other members of the senior operational team.
The Care Group Director provides leadership to their clinical services which are Childrens Services across Rotherham, North Lincolnshire and Doncaster, alongside their SLT which constitutes three Care Group Clinical Directors and a Deputy Care Group Director.
Please apply if you are passionate about the RDaSH strategy with its focus on community power, 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
Working for our organisation
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:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/about-us/getting-involved/work-with-us/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
- • Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
- • Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
- • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning. Highly developed political skills and ability to influence others. • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning. Highly developed political skills and ability to influence others
- • Determination perseverance, and personal resilience. • Flexibility and the ability to handle a Rapidly changing and ambiguous environment
Desirable criteria
- • Show a high level of understanding and experience in the NHS commercial development. Previous experience of working at senior management level within the NHS.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • 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
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning. Highly developed political skills and ability to influence others.
- • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning. Highly developed political skills and ability to influence others.
- • Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- • Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- • Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively.
- • High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- • Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
- • High level critical thinking skills.
- • Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
- • Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- • Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ms Jenny Hill
- Job title
- Personal Assistant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07967779923
- Additional information
Please have an informal discussion with Richard Chillery, Chief Operating Officer via PA: [email protected] or 07967 779923
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