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Job summary

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General Manager
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-2250-B
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Hospital
Town
Archway
Salary
拢70,387 - 拢80,465 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

General Manager Surgery and Cancer Division

NHS AfC: Band 8b

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Surgery and Cancer Division as a General Manager. This post offers a great opportunity for someone wishing to lead a range of services, while collaborating cross North Central London to deliver the best treatment possible for patients.听

You will be operationally responsible for an array of speciality services ensuring excellent performance, demonstrating strong leadership, development of services to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Key objectives will be to deliver against the national access standards, while ensuring that patients receive excellent experience.听Lead service transformation and work as a leader to develop a high performing team and enhance our speciality services collaborations including the WH and UCLH Southern Elective Hub.听In addition, you will contribute to the flow of the hospital through supporting the inpatient wards and overall S&C bed base.

You will be part of the senior ICSU management team and will assist the Clinical Director, Director of Operations and Associate Director of Nursing in delivering the Trust鈥檚 strategic and operational agenda. You will oversee day to day management issues, liaising with departments and teams as required. You will provide line management for non-nursing key staff within the departments and will lead the business planning process for surgical specialties and be a key enabler to delivering the surgical elective contracted activity plan.

Main duties of the job

Working as a Senior member of the Divisional Team, the General Manager will support the operational management of speciality departments & Clinical Teams in the planning and delivery of clinical services and ensure the achievement of key objectives. The post holder will work across organisational boundaries to ensure appropriate services are in place and to deliver national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards.

This will include responsibility for all aspects of planning, including service planning, project management and the production of business cases, ensuring that there are systems in place to monitor and measure Divisional and Specialty performance.听They will have direct responsibility for ensuring that resources are utilised efficiently.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.听 We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.听 The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

General Duties

Accountable

Responsible

听听听听听听听听 Deputise for the Deputy DOO as required.

听听听听听听听听 Being part of the Silver on Call rota

听听听听 Accountable to the DOO for a major area of activity

听听听听 Accountable for a multi-million-pound budget and associated physical resources.

听听听听 Accountable for the performance, budget, quality and workforce for a major area of activity

听听听听 Responsible for the recruitment, line management of Service managers, appraisal, staff development and performance

听听听听 Responsible for policy and service development within the areas they are accountable for.

听听听听 Operates independently, manages department, interprets organisational policies

Education /

Qualifications

听听听听 Masters level qualification or equivalent experience

听听听听 Management qualification (or equivalent management experience) 听

Skills & Abilities

听听听听 Excellent analytical skills and able to interpret multiple data sources and translate into significant improvement projects.

听听听听 Excellent writing skills to be able to write reports to the level of the executive committee and the Trust鈥檚 Senior听 Management Group (TMG).

听听听听 Excellent communication skills to be able to relay complex information to internal and external colleagues and patients/families.

听听听听 Able to work flexibly and contribute to the programme of change using advanced negotiating skills

听听听听 Strong leadership skills

听听听听 Excellent time management and organising skills

听听听听 Demonstrates tenacity in dealing with issues

听听听听 IT literate

Knowledge & Experience

听听听听 Experience of working in the NHS at a senior level

听听听听 Current understanding of the challenges facing the NHS and Health Service management.

听听听听 Understanding of improvement methodology and change management

听听听听 Knowledge of the Quality and Assurance Framework

听听听听 Experience of service management at a senior level.

听听听听 Experience of managing challenging and emotional situations

听听听听 Experience of management over a million pound budget

听听听听 Notable change management experience

PERSONAL QUALITIES

听听听听 Ability to create a positive working environment putting patients and staff first

听听听听 Willing to learn

听听听听 Able to work well in a team

听听听听 Ensure all practice carry the trust values.

听听听听 Commitment to developing a culture of responsibility and accountability

听听听听 Effective communicator / negotiator/ influencer

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
  • Management qualification (or equivalent management experience)
Desirable criteria
  • Chartered Manager Status
  • QSIR GOLD

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Excellent analytical skills and able to interpret multiple data sources and translate into significant improvement projects.
  • Excellent writing skills to be able to write reports to the level of the executive committee and the Trust鈥檚 Senior Management Group (TMG)
  • Excellent communication skills to be able to relay complex information to internal and external colleagues and patients/families. 鈥 Able to work flexibly and contribute to the programme of change using advanced negotiating skills

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in the NHS at a senior level
  • Current understanding of the challenges facing the NHS and Health Service management.
  • Understanding of improvement methodology and change management

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential criteria
  • Ability to create a positive working environment putting patients and staff first
  • Willing to learn
  • Able to work well in a team

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
David Crosby
Job title
Director of Operations
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07824602382