The Clinical Support Services division is looking to appoint a Service Manager for its dermatology, and neurology services.

If successful, you will support the Divisional General Manager and the Divisional Management Team within the Dermatology and Neurology teams and in partnership with other Service Managers and Clinicians to ensure the effective provision of consistent quality services, ensure the achievement of performance and other local and national clinical and non-clinical targets, provide operational management support to the service, supervising systems and processes for your areas and in liaison with the quality and governance leads ensure appropriate systems and processes are established in departments to support the robust reporting and progress of governance, risk and safeguarding issues.

In addition, you will manage designated financial resources within budget and support the quadrumvirate and wider divisional governance team in financial management, and support the development of service line reporting and service line management.

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective leadership to specific clinical and non-clinical teams and individuals.
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information where a wide range of skills including persuasion, motivation, negotiation, empathy and reassurance are required e.g. cost improvement plan requiring redeployment of staff, modernising services, implementing change, disciplinary and capability procedures.
• Support Divisional Service Teams with surgical resource management and allocation such as Theatre Occupancy, scheduling and session management, staffing allocations, procuring equipment and consumables, organising resources to ensure the Trust achievement of national access targets including 18-week RTT, emergency care targets and cancer targets.
• Support on the production of the monthly divisional performance report for business meeting.
• Contribute to the wider management of the division and of the trust on specific projects as and when appropriate.
• Ensure that there is widespread implementation of robust human resource (HR) practices, in line with the trusts HR strategy and trust policies.
• Monitor effective staff communication and involvement ensuring staff have the opportunity to be involved in and influence the planning and development of services.
• To lead on division wide work streams such as demand and capacity planning and inpatient length of stay reduction and Theatre Efficiency and Utilisation.

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 job description and person specification attached for detailed job overview. Any question please contact for an informal conversation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualifications or experience
• Management qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional/personal development

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing and designing staff rotas
• Experience of reporting of service performance
• The management of operating budgets and delivering financial surplus

Skills

Essential

• As per job spec

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX

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292-6804378-CCS