Deputy General Manager - Cancer Performance
The Cancer Directorate is looking to recruit a Deputy General Manager for Cancer Performance. This exciting opportunity within the Directorate will support the Divisional Leadership Team and the Directorate General Manager.
You will be the nominated Deputy to the Directorate General Manager and have responsibility for delivery on a number of overarching portfolios which span the Directorate. These will include, but are not restricted to, a focus on cancer performance and delivery, staff engagement and communication, workforce planning, oversight on delivery of the Directorate financial efficiency target and working closely with externally provided data (GIRFT, Model Hospital etc) to drive service improvement.
Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible.
Main duties of the job
The Directorate encompasses services at both Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells sites.
You must have senior operational management experience, and significant expertise in project management, NHS policy, contracting and funding, strategic planning and delivery, development and delivery of staff development projects and communications strategies.
This is a varied and exciting role for those who enjoy driving improvement through engaging others through a positive and forward-thinking approach. If that sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
About us
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Job responsibilities
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed, you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Standard Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children).
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to bachelor's level or equivalent in experience
* Evidence of further personal development
* Coaching and mentoring qualification
Experience/Knowledge
* Minimum 5 years' experience in a management role, to include staff, budget and operational experience, or equivalent
* Experience as an effective team leader, demonstrating leadership skills and the ability to motivate others
* Experience of managing complex budgets including their control and deployment
* Demonstrable success in working collaboratively across professions, services and organisational boundaries.
* Demonstrable success in leading and managing change
* Experience in developing strategies and approaches which impact across the whole organisation and will meet the needs and suit the culture of the Trust
* Experience consulting and negotiating in a senior capacity with key partners
* Significant experience of working in partnership with other external agencies to develop, implement and evaluate policy and strategy including managing change
* Detailed knowledge of the NHS and the Department of Health Agenda with explicit understanding of current issues across the NHS Professions
* Personal experience of managing and implementing a significant programme of change or service development
* Proven pro-active approach to problem solving
* Sound statistical and financial analysis skills
* Excellent analytical and interpretive skills, enabling the development, planning and implementation of service changes
* Experience of working across departmental and organisational boundaries to deliver specific targets and to improve services for patients
* Experience of managing organisational change
* Experience clinical audit and quality control
Skills
* Excellent organisational and administrative skills
* Ability to manage highly complex, sensitive or contentious issues/situations.
* Evidence of successfully achieving cancer performance standards
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.
Deputy Director of Operations for Cancer Services
£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata
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