Executive Director for Transformation, Estates & Digital - Bath

Job summary

As a new addition to our Executive Team, this role represents a significant opportunity to transform Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) NHS Trust. An integral part of the Executive Team, reporting to the Chief Executive and working closely with the Board and Extended Executive Team, you will be vital to AWP achieving our vision of "High Quality, Compassionate Care".

Like most of the NHS, AWP is facing growing demand and acuity across its services, workforce challenges, continuing pressures on finances and a rapidly evolving stakeholder environment. This role will be pivotal in responding to those challenges, with a broad and transformative portfolio of responsibility for our Transformation, Estates and Digital functions.

Main duties of the job

To succeed in this fascinating role you will be adaptable, flexible and able to grasp quickly the essence of a challenge, to generate appropriate solutions and build support for an agreed way forward.

This will require an effective, compassionate and inclusive leader who can motivate and empower people to embrace improvement. You will bring your excellent influencing skills, political acumen, drive for results and ability to work effectively with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders to the role.

Ideally, your experience of leading at Executive level in the NHS will help you to strengthen our team, and you will bring your intellectual rigour, and ability to analyse complex issues to Executive Team discussions. You will need to be able to think and plan strategically and exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures, as well as ensure that the organisation mobilises to ensure delivery of agreed objectives.

To apply, please email your CV and covering letter to our Resourcing Lead, claire.young9@nhs.net

Stakeholder sessions and panel interviews - 22 July 2025 - please save the date.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.