Service Manager - Unplanned Care Division
We are recruiting for a Service Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Service Manager within Acute Care Group, Unplanned Care Division.
We are looking for a Service Manager with a positive mindset who motivates and drives their teams forward with inspiration.
You will display outstanding management skills and be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills. You will be proactive and have the ability to motivate others, inspire ideas and foster supportive diverse teams. You will be able to display effective problem solving and decision-making skills in a pressured environment. You will also be expected to have a positive mindset to motivate and drive your teams forward with inspiration, and be committed to developing others whilst focusing on your own personal development.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
1. Assist the Head of Operations in meeting the Trust's strategic and operational agenda.
2. Oversee day-to-day service management issues, liaising with departments and multi-disciplinary teams as required.
3. To deputise for the Head of Operations as required. The role requires an individual with a relevant professional qualification and experience in the management of people and services.
4. Promote the service and manage partnership relations with stakeholders working with other Service and Operational Managers.
5. Plan and oversee the implementation of the service improvement and delivery of service performance across all domains.
6. Ensure compliance with clinical and operational standards and contractual requirements ensuring regular reporting to all relevant stakeholder groups.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* University Degree or Equivalent experience
* Evidence of continuing development
Experience
* Staff management, including sickness absence, appraisals and performance
* NHS experience
* Financial and activity management
* Close working with senior managers and/or clinicians
Skills
* Excellent communication and presentation skills
* Excellent verbal/written and interpersonal skills
* Practical and creative approach to problem solving
* Ability to resolve conflicts
* Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
* Ability to meet deadlines and manage varied workload
* Understand and practice confidentiality, tact and diplomacy
* Ability to communicate with and get on with a wide range of people from all disciplines
Knowledge
* IT including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Performance and Change Management
* Current NHS issues
* Budget setting
* PAS or similar patient access system
Other requirements
* Ability to travel easily between sites
* Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning.
* Role model our Trust values every day.
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.
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