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.

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.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.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's 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.They will have direct responsibility for ensuring that resources are utilised efficiently.

About us

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. 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. 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

General Duties

Accountable

Responsible

Deputise for the Deputy DOO as required.

Being part of the Silver on Call rota

Accountable to the DOO for a major area of activity

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

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

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

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

Operates independently, manages department, interprets organisational policies
Education / Qualifications
Masters level qualification or equivalent experience

Management qualification (or equivalent management experience)

Skills & Abilities

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 Trusts Senior Management Group (TMG).

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

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

Strong leadership skills

Excellent time management and organising skills

Demonstrates tenacity in dealing with issues

IT literate

Knowledge & Experience

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

Knowledge of the Quality and Assurance Framework

Experience of service management at a senior level.

Experience of managing challenging and emotional situations

Experience of management over a million pound budget

Notable change management experience

PERSONAL QUALITIES

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

Willing to learn

Able to work well in a team

Ensure all practice carry the trust values.

Commitment to developing a culture of responsibility and accountability

Effective communicator / negotiator/ influencer

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
• Management qualification (or equivalent management experience)

Desirable

• Chartered Manager Status
• QSIR GOLD

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• 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's Senior Management Group (TMG)
• Excellent communication skills to be able to relay complex information to internal and external colleagues and patients/families. oAble to work flexibly and contribute to the programme of change using advanced negotiating skills

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• 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

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

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Whittington Hospital

Archway

N19 5NF

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