Employer: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Princess Alexandra Hospital
Town: Harlow
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/02/2025 23:59
Service Manager - Dermatology and Neurology
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
Job overview
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.
* Support Divisional Service Teams with surgical resource management and allocation.
* Support on the production of the monthly divisional performance report for business meetings.
* 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent qualifications or experience
* Evidence of continuing professional/personal development
Experience
* Experience of managing and designing staff rotas
* Experience of reporting of service performance
* The management of operating budgets and delivering financial surplus
Skills
* As per job spec
What we can offer you:
* Full induction and onboarding process in our organisation
* Free car parking for our staff
* Structured pay scheme, including additional living supplement to your basic salary
* Minimum 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
* Access to our Alex Lounge, our staff only rest area with free tea and coffee
* Access to NHS Pension scheme
* Flexible working options available, in line with our flexible working policy
* Onsite creche facilities
* Annual appraisals with career pathways
* In-house training courses
* Discounted hospital restaurant
* Staff health and wellbeing health services and complimentary health provision
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.
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