St Andrew’s Healthcare

General Manager

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Job summary

Purpose of Role:

The General Manager reports to the Service Director and will be responsible for the overall management and oversight of wards across the division.

The Division is led by a Triumvirates leadership team of the Clinical Director, Service Director and Associate Director of Nursing. Working closely with colleagues, the General Manager will ensure continuous service improvement in workforce, performance, operational and financial outcomes.

In order to provide greater management support to our wards out of hours, all our General Managers will rotate with our Quality Matrons to provide full out of hours cover across seven days also providing Operational/Bronze Command cover for Critical and Major Incidents response.

Main duties of the job

The role

In this exciting new high profile role reporting to the Service Director, you will be responsible for the overall management and oversight of a group of Low Secure and Specialist Rehabilitatian wards across the division. Your key responsibilities will include:

Working closely with colleagues to ensure continuous service improvement in workforce, performance, operational and financial outcomes
Recruiting, motivating, training, developing, appraising and retaining staff ensuring they have the skills, expertise and discretion to work effectively in their roles
Leading the development of a culture that promotes leadership through a coaching style for improvement
Representing your division at internal and external forums
Using and providing highly complex information and data from a range of sources as required for the quality measure and the use of dash boards to improve the quality of care delivery
Taking accountability to deliver high quality clinical services, including patient safety, patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes and compliance with the clinical pathways and protocols
Managing financial delivery through the effective and efficient provision of service within the resources available while maintaining the quality of service provision
Acting as a change agent in driving continuous quality improvement

About us

St Andrew's work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.

About you

Youll be an experienced, inspiring and compassionate operational leader with significant experience of delivering high performance and results through your people and teams. You will be an excellent communicator with strong influencing and negotiation skills. You will be skilled at presenting and interpreting complex data and be comfortable in decision making and problem solving.

With high levels of personal integrity you will be well experienced in winning hearts and minds through periods of complex change. You will also be highly adept at managing effective relationships to a senior level and a strong track record of meeting business targets.

You will have both the breadth and depth of skills to fulfil the role described above and high levels of resilience to lead and embed significant change.

Interested?

If this sounds like you then wed love you to apply here. If you would like an informal and confidential discussion about the role please contact James Farrelly on jcfarrelly@stah.org or call 07827856634 or contact our Recruitment Team, at recruitment@stah.org

Date posted

19 July 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience £56,000 - £65,000 depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

B0354-STAH35224JF

Job locations

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and management:

Responsible for representing the division at internal and external forums as identified by the Triumvirate.

Lead the development of a culture that promotes leadership through a coaching style for improvement.

To line manage ward managers for allocated wards in accordance with Charitys standards and protocols, doing so in a way which demonstrates the Charitys CARE values.

To be responsible for recruiting, motivating, training, developing, appraising and retaining appropriate staff enabling them to have the skills, expertise and discretion to function effectively in their roles

Provide demonstrable assurance that staff have the appropriate skills and competence to deliver high quality care

To demonstrate clinical competence and role model effective, patient-centred clinical care delivery

To be a visible leader and be accessible to clinical staff, services users and carers representing the divisional leadership team.

To actively embrace diversity and inclusion, providing an environment where everyone can thrive.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and management:

Responsible for representing the division at internal and external forums as identified by the Triumvirate.

Lead the development of a culture that promotes leadership through a coaching style for improvement.

To line manage ward managers for allocated wards in accordance with Charitys standards and protocols, doing so in a way which demonstrates the Charitys CARE values.

Provide demonstrable assurance that staff have the appropriate skills and competence to deliver high quality care

To demonstrate clinical competence and role model effective, patient-centred clinical care delivery

To be a visible leader and be accessible to clinical staff, services users and carers representing the divisional leadership team.

To actively embrace diversity and inclusion, providing an environment where everyone can thrive.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Analytical and Judgement skills
Strategic thinker
Excellent problem solving skills
Ability to critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets
Sensitive to clinical and political demands
Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change

Qualifications

Essential

Experience managing large complex teams and developing and improving service.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Analytical and Judgement skills
Strategic thinker
Excellent problem solving skills
Ability to critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets
Sensitive to clinical and political demands
Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change

Qualifications

Essential

Experience managing large complex teams and developing and improving service.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)