Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Town Sheffield
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 13/04/2025 23:59
Interview date 30/04/2025
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting leadership opportunity, the Patient Booking Hub Manager is accountable for the strategic development and operational delivery of the Trust Patients’ Booking Hub, ensuring it meets the Trust objectives. The role will be responsible for the delivery of an outpatient booking experience that is consistent, patient focused and incorporates the best of available user-friendly technology. It will also have a vital role in the safe deployment of the new electronic patient record software in the summer of 2025.
The role will oversee the remaining transfer of identified directorate booking services into the Patients’ Booking Hub.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be accountable for the management of the Patients Booking Hub in its resilient delivery of agreed outpatient booking services in support of speciality operational plans. The Patients Booking Hub Manager will work in partnership with the Connect EPR programme and Administrative Professionalisation (APP) Programmes to increase support, learning and development to administrative colleagues and provide a transparent career structure for administrative colleagues within the Patients’ Booking Hub.
The post holder will drive a culture of continuous service improvement within the Patients’ Booking Hub and work with the Assistant Chief Operating Officer to define future outpatient booking strategy. The Patients’ Booking Hub Manager will also act as a deputy to the Deputy Chief Operating Officer in relation to Trust wide elective care issues within a delegated remit.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development and many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* A master’s degree or a post-graduate qualification in management and/or able to demonstrate equivalent formal learning or work experience
* A first degree or equivalent qualification in a health or health management related area
* Contact Centre management qualification (such as BTEC advanced professional diploma in contact centre management)
* Project Management training
Experience
* Experience of leading and managing a similar large operational service ideally within an Acute NHS or wider healthcare sector setting
* Experience of building a team and developing a strong customer service and continuous improvement culture
* Experience of leading and delivering large scale service improvement or change initiatives including service redesign, including business case writing and presentation
* Extensive staff recruitment and management experience, including workforce planning & line management responsibilities, including application of HR policies
* Experience of financial planning and monitoring of income and expenditure budgets, including the design and delivery of large cost improvement programmes
* Ability to negotiate and influence staff at all levels of seniority including immediate management, senior executive members and clinical teams
* Experience of leading the development and implementation of strategic service plans, including ability to translate complex data and information to clinical teams
* Experience of managing within a complex organisation and balancing multiple objectives successfully
* Experience of managing elective services with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the implementation of an access policy ensuring delivery of quality and access standards
Further Training
* Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development, proactively seeking out new formal and informal learning opportunities
* Demonstrable leadership skills and the ability to motivate others and demonstrate honesty, integrity, fairness, tenacity and resilience
* A commitment to promoting equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development
* An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance, promote development and career progression
* Customer focused, solution oriented and a tenacious approach to problem solving including an appetite to challenge the status quo
* Excellent organisational skills and an ability to prioritise an unpredictable workload with frequent disruption
* A clear understanding of confidentiality when dealing with matters relating to staff and patient information and data
* A detailed understanding of clinical and corporate governance
* Awareness of the national and regional strategic and policy environment and ability to translate this locally
* Ability to work flexibly across the PBH shift patterns and across our hospital sites
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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
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Name Nicola Fields
Job title Assistant Chief Operating Officer
Email address nicola.fields1@nhs.net
Telephone number 0114 226 7103
Additional information
Victoria Leckie (In Nicola Fields Absence)
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
v.leckie@nhs.net
Balbir Bhogal (In Nicola Fields Absence)
Performance & Information Director
balbir.bhogal1@nhs.net
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