Reporting to the Associate Director of Operations, the General Manager is responsible, in conjunction with the Clinical Director, for the safe and effective delivery of all patient services within the obstetric and gynae (O& G) services of the clinical division. This involves achievement of all operational performance targets, including access targets, finance, and the quality of services to patients and improving services towards best practice standards within available income.

Main duties of the job

Have operational and strategic responsibility for pathway management and delivery of performance targets for all specialties (O& G) within their clinical division. This will include waiting list management, cancer standards, workforce and finance. - Be responsible for operational flow, capacity and demand management and ensuring pathways are optimised to support performance targets and financial targets including improved patient quality performances.

About us

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at anytime.

Person Specification

Meets all essentila criteria

Essential

• Degree level achieved
• can demonstrate previous transferable experience

Desirable

• Has managed a team

can demonstate desirable criteria

Essential

• Understands the clinical pathways

Desirable

• Has worked across networks

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX

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292-6806450-CHWS