37.5 hours per week

General Manager in Neurosciences and Spinal Cord Injury

To support the Senior Service Manager in providing operational leadership, business development and people management for services within the Collaborative, ensuring high quality patient care is delivered within available resources and in line with the Trust's overarching strategic objectives.

Main duties of the job

The General Manager will support the Senior Service Manager in developing a culture of high performance, ownership and accountability where safety, quality and excellence in patient outcome and experience is consistently delivered, in line with not only national and locally agreed standards but also the higher standards of performance the Trust sets itself.

The General Manager is expected to act as a change agent and be highly visible to frontline staff, demonstrating strong personal leadership and direction whilst at the same time supporting the building of an effective leadership and management team within the Directorate(s) to ensure organisation sustainability.

This role of the General Manager forms part of the Directorate management team and is expected to work with the Senior/Service Manager in the development and delivery of underpinning Directorate annual operating plans, which should in turn integrate with the Clinical Service overall clinical and business development strategy and overarching Trust strategy.

Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
• Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
• Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First degree or suitable equivalent experience.
• Postgrad diploma in leadership qualification or equivalent experience
• Project Management experience and/or qualifications

Desirable

• Masters qualification in relevant area

Experience

Essential

• Experience of successfully managing significant change/project management.
• Experience and evidence of creative strategic thinking
• Recent evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together
• Experience of translating strategic goals into effective operational plans and objectives
• Substantial and relevant management experience, including line management in an operational role
• Demonstrate achievements in managing and meeting targets through finance and commissioning frameworks

Desirable

• Experience in capacity and service planning within an acute health care setting
• Experience of writing Service Level Agreements

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Proven ability to be intellectually flexible and to be able to look beyond existing processes and ways of working to produce more effective service delivery
• Evidence of a sound understanding in operational management, lean manufacturing, six sigma etc or comparable service improvement methodologies. A strong knowledge of change and project management processes
• A sound understanding of the NHS current legislation and national strategy
• Comprehensive knowledge of financial and commissioning framework and experience of workforce and capacity planning. Knowledge of budgetary planning and cost improvement planning processes.

Desirable

• Thorough understanding of NHS waiting time targets

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

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