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Mental Health Operations Director

Job in Liverpool, Merseyside, L1, England, UK
Listing for: NHS
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
  • Management
    Healthcare Management
  • Healthcare
    Healthcare Management, Healthcare Administration
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Step into a pivotal leadership role where you'll drive the future of Mental Health services across our NHS division. As Operations Director, you'll lead a high performing Mental Health Leadership team and take ownership of all operational delivery within the Mental Health Business Unit.

Main duties of the job

Working in close partnership with the Managing Director, Physical Health Operations Director and Head of Strategy & System, you'll help shape an ambitious strategic vision for the Mental Health market and turn that vision into reality.

About us

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do. To find out more about Vita Health Group and the services we provide, please :

Job responsibilities

Step into a pivotal leadership role where you'll drive the future of Mental Health services across our NHS division. As Operations Director, you'll lead a high performing Mental Health Leadership team and take ownership of all operational delivery within the Mental Health Business Unit.

Working in close partnership with the Managing Director, Physical Health Operations Director and Head of Strategy & System, youll help shape an ambitious strategic vision for the Mental Health market and turn that vision into reality.

As a key member of the NHS Board, you'll champion Mental Health priorities. You'll make sure central and supporting functions stay aligned, focused and delivering at pace.

You'll be accountable for operational excellence, financial performance and proactive risk management across the Mental Health Business Unit. You'll drive continuous improvement, ensuring we deliver outstanding outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

  • 3 years+ senior management experience and proven leadership within a Mental Health Service
  • 3 years+ experience of delivering operations in a senior management position in a high achieving/ target driven environment
  • 3 Years+ experience of owning and managing senior customer/ ICB relationships.
  • Experience of full P&L and Financial accountability, for multiple services
  • Strong familiarity of using Power Bi for data analysis
Job description

Job responsibilities

Step into a pivotal leadership role where you'll drive the future of Mental Health services across our NHS division. As Operations Director, you'll lead a high performing Mental Health Leadership team and take ownership of all operational delivery within the Mental Health Business Unit.

Working in close partnership with the Managing Director, Physical Health Operations Director and Head of Strategy & System, youll help shape an ambitious strategic vision for the Mental Health market and turn that vision into reality.

As a key member of the NHS Board, you'll champion Mental Health priorities. You'll make sure central and supporting functions stay aligned, focused and delivering at pace.

You'll be accountable for operational excellence, financial performance and proactive risk management across the Mental Health Business Unit. You'll drive continuous improvement, ensuring we deliver outstanding outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

Essential Criteria includes:

  • 3 years+ senior management experience and proven leadership within a Mental Health Service
  • 3 years+ experience of delivering operations in a senior management position in a high achieving/ target driven environment
  • 3 Years+ experience of owning and managing senior customer/ ICB relationships.
  • Experience of full P&L and Financial accountability, for multiple services
  • Strong familiarity of using Power Bi for data analysis
Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do. Now part of Spire Healthcare Group plc we have been providing physical and mental health services for over 30 years. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UKs largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of Making People Better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. We are an award-winning employer recently recognised nationally as Best Company to Work for at the Health and Wellbeing Awards 2024.

This is also recognised by current employees our most recent Employee Survey results showed the top 5 reasons to work here as being:

  • Supportive team and management
  • Positive work environment
  • Wellbeing and mental health support
  • Trust and respect
  • Autonomy and flexibility

We are keen to progress your skills and enable career development and provide regular Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme, apprenticeships and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here:

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal…

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