Are you an experienced leader with a passion for healthcare? Do you have a proven track record of successfully managing teams and driving operational excellence? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join Evelina London Women's & Children's Healthcare as General Manager for the Children's Medicine & Neonatology Directorate. You will be an individual with an excellent track-record in operational management, combined with the commitment and leadership skills to deliver our ambitious and exciting vision for children's services for South London, South East England and beyond.The Children's Medicine & Neonatology directorate are an integral part of the Evelina London Clinical Group, part of Guy's & St Thomas' NHSFT.

About us

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,200 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share.

We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas'. Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in hospital and in the community, continues to grow. We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life for children, young people and for women from London, South East England, and - for some rare conditions -around the UK and the world.

As the only NHS Trust in London with women's and specialist children's services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. We operate through four clinical directorates: Neonatology and Medical Specialties, Surgical Services, Theatres and Paediatric Intensive Care, Children's Community Services and Women's Services.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As the General Manager for Childrens Medicine and Neonatology Directorate, you will provide tactical and operational management as well as senior leadership to a range of paediatric services including a specialist neonatal intensive care unit and a dedicated childrens emergency department where we treat more than 29,000 children and young people a year. We also have a purpose built, codesigned ambulatory facility, allergy daycase unit, inpatient sleep centre and neuro-rehabilitation service. Along with our dedicated paediatric inpaitent beds we support our growing and developing services across multiple specalisms including renal & transplantation, neurosciences, general paediatrics, childrens community nursing, metabolic medicine, gastroenterology, infection, palliative care and a number of other medical and support services including outpatients and therapies.

Your focus will be on working in partnership with clinical teams and leading the directorate operationally and strategically including service performance, activity delivery and improvement. The post reports directly to the Clinical Director for the Childrens Medicine & Neonatology Directorate and is professionally supported by the Director of Operations and Improvement.

We are looking for someone who will bring excellent general management experience and skills, with a strong interest in innovation, service improvement and development, and a commitment to collective leadership. You will be highly collaborative, systematic and rigorous in your approach, with very well developed communication skills and high levels of emotional intelligence. We would like to encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

In this post you will work alongside medical, nursing and allied multi professional staff as well as the core teams of Heads of Service, Matrons and Service Managers developing excellent services that are fit for the future. A strong track-record of successful delivery is essential as is a passionate desire to make a difference to children, young people and their families.If you believe you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to join and help lead our directorate management team we would love to hear from you.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential

• Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through management teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
• A strong track record of managing risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery.
• An understanding of the changing NHS environment and the challenges it faces.
• Relevant degree qualification or equivalent professional qualification
• Evidence of delivering successful strategic and operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in the quality of service delivery including business case preparation, service initiation, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of outcome and output measures.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of developing business plans and programme/project management programmes resulting in positive value for money outcomes.

Skills

Essential

• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and authority able to successfully foster and manage inter-relationships between own unit and other Directorates.
• Strong organisational ability and well developed resource and staff management skills: able to forecast, plan, develop and manage unit capability in line with business plan and organisational vision.
• Proven ability to manage change effectively within an operational environment, building engagement and involvement and rewarding innovation.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. A proven credible and influential communicator with excellent networking and negotiating skills.
• Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Evelina London, St Thomas Hospital

Westminster Bridge Rd

London

SE1 7EH

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