Job Summary
This is an excellent opportunity to join Theatres, working cross site within the Surgery Division as a senior member of the Critical Care, Theatres, Anaesthetic and Pain directorate. You will be the lead for operational lead for operating theatres cross site - ensuring your team operational ensure theatres can safely run, monitoring theatre performance, working closely with senior directorate colleagues, your line reports and key stakeholders to provide high quality, safe and efficient patient care.
You (along with your team) will ensure the theatre scheduling and 6-4-2 process runs seamlessly and efficiently, and you will be a key leader within theatres along with the matrons for each site, and the surgical hub. You will be responsible for working with the clinical team and smart together on our theatres equipment and consumables - looking at efficiency, safety and cost.
You will need to demonstrate clear operational knowledge, along with strong theatres experience.
We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We want all suitable candidates to apply and we want to ensure that we do hear from you if you can bring insights to the work of the Trust, if you are from a Black, Asian or other ethnic minority background, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+.
Main duties of the job
The Associate General Manager Will Provide Daily Effective Operational Management Support For Theatres Cross Site. Assisting Senior Managers And Multi Disciplinary Teams As Required, Assuring That Our Theatre Services Are Responsive, Innovative And Provided To The Highest Possible Clinical And Performance Standards. Ensuring We Provide The Best Possible Patient Experience. Reporting To The General Manager, The Associate General Manager Will Be Responsible For:
1. Monitoring service delivery against strategic trust and business plans identified throughout the year to ensure successful delivery.
2. Lead on designated projects within the Theatre Improvement Project.
3. Work with the General Manager to produce accurate, high quality business cases for service developments.
4. Budget management.
5. Work with service managers, lead nurses, clinical leads and wider teams to achieve sustained improvements.
6. Ensure that the divisional services provided are of a consistently high quality and deliver excellent patient experience.
Working as part of a dedicated, diverse and friendly team you will have the training and opportunities for development as we continue our journey of improving together. The employees at LGT work together in a rare way; demonstrating a team spirit with unmatched determination.
About Us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
* Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
* Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
* Improving the experience of staff with disability.
* Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
* Making equalities mainstream.
Date posted
07 March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
197-LC6368B
Job locations
Lewisham Hospital
Lewisham
London
SE13 6LH
Job Description
Job responsibilities
1. To promote and support the development of the Trusts mission, values, aims and objectives.
2. To contribute to the production of the Divisions strategic and business plans, leading where identified as part of the annual planning cycle and on an ad-hoc basis as required.
3. To monitor service delivery against strategic and business plans in identified specialties throughout the year to ensure successful delivery.
4. To work with the General Manager to produce accurate, high quality business cases for service developments, taking into account activity and income projections.
5. To play a major role in modernising the operational delivery of services within the division in line with the strategic direction of the Trust, working with clinical teams to embed changes and deliver required efficiency improvements. Achieved by being part of the Theatre Improvement Project Senior Team.
6. Responsible for the delivery of identified quality and service improvement projects or development programmes that contribute to the modernisation of patient services and enhancing experiences.
7. To develop a cross-working relationship across all delivery areas of care.
8. To work with and support the Transformation team in order to implement change management.
9. To work collaboratively with colleagues from Whole system integration group (WSIG) and partner organisations to promote the tripartite agenda, service integration and development.
10. To deputise for, and act up on behalf of, the General Manager as and when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Masters degree in healthcare or management or demonstrable ability to work at Masters level.
* Degree and/or equivalent senior management experience.
* Evidence of running 6-4-2 and scheduling.
* Project management experience.
* Evidence of people management.
Experience
Essential
* Operational management experience within the acute sector.
* Proven track record of meeting significant national targets.
* Knowledge and understanding of the modernisation agenda and the opportunities for redesigning services and the tools and techniques for achieving service change.
* Significant experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues.
* Significant budget management experience, including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action.
* Evidence of report writing and presenting skills, to include business cases and formal presentations.
Job Related Skills
Essential
* Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis.
* Excellent communication skills across the organisation and with a wide range of staff with differing levels of responsibility and different professional backgrounds.
* Experience of dealing with complex issues in a large organisation.
* Ability to work pro-actively and co-operatively with senior management and clinical staff, including at times of stress.
Desirable
* ECDL.
Personal Skills
Essential
* Commitment to self-development with ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of key policies and themes in healthcare provision in the UK.
* An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance.
* Commitment to promoting equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
Lewisham Hospital
Lewisham
London
SE13 6LH
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