Job summary
Are you an experienced senior operations leader? Are you passionate about delivering the best possible health and care for patients?
As one of our Operations Directors, you'll be responsible for the effective senior leadership and day-to-day operational and business management for a range of departments and services within one of our clinical care groups. We currently have vacancies within the following care groups:
- Medicine and Pharmacy Services (MAPS) - Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Respiratory, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Pharmacy services
- Specialist Cancer Services
- South Yorkshire Regional Services (SYRS) - Cardiothoracic, Renal and Vascular services
Reporting to our Trust Executive Group, this is an exciting opportunity to operate at the highest level of the one of the country's largest and most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, where you'll be a key contributor in setting the strategic direction and delivery of services to our communities in South Yorkshire and beyond.
Day-to-day you'll work alongside the care group's Clinical Director and Nurse Director, where you'll ensure directorates are well-managed and have the staff, capability, and resources they need to deliver the best possible care and clinical standards and can meet their objectives.
Main duties of the job
As Operations Director, you'll provide senior leadership and oversight for a range of strategic, operational and business management activities for your respective care group, including the consistent delivery of key quality and performance standards, income and activity targets, productivity and efficiency plans, and robust annual business plans.
You'll also have collective responsibility with your respective Clinical Director and Nurse Director for the strategic development of services in the care group, the delivery of key performance indicators and objectives, achieving the clinical and healthcare standards required to comply with high-quality, well-governed, and patient-centred services.
The post will be site based.
Please see the attached Job Description for full details and responsibilities, or for an informal chat, please get in touch via the contact details below.
About us
Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we'll expect you to be an advocate for our PROUD values. We're looking for engaging, adaptive leaders who can work alongside and inspire staff at all levels while holding them to account, puts patients at the heart of decision-making, and have a proven track record of delivering high-quality, efficient and effective services within a large, complex organisation.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust employs 18,000 staff working across five hospital sites and a range of community-based settings. We deliver over two million patient contacts a year providing a full range of services for our local population as well as specialist care regionally and nationally.
With an annual budget of over £1.3billion we are one of Yorkshire's major trauma centres, a member of the Shelford Group and are collaborating with other NHS organisations, local councils and others to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Closing date: Sunday 2nd April 2023
Psychometric Testing: w/c 10th April 2023
Stakeholder Meetings: w/c 17th April 2023
Interviews: Friday 21st April 2023
For more information contact: Michael Harper, Chief Operating Officer (0114) 271 5445
Job description
Job responsibilities
Closing date: Sunday 2nd April 2023
Psychometric Testing: w/c 10th April 2023
Stakeholder Meetings: w/c 17th April 2023
Interviews: Friday 21st April 2023
For more information contact: Michael Harper, Chief Operating Officer (0114) 271 5445
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or evidence of very extensive and directly relevant operational management experience at a senior level.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
Desirable
- Educated to masters level in a management discipline.
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to manage complex change over medium and long term timescales within their own team and at the interface with other teams and organisations
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior management experience gained within a large and complex customer focused organisation
- Experience of managing large budgets within a complex financial regimen and experience of people management
- Experience of managing a service over a number of financial years in order to develop budgetary, management and variance analysis.
- Experience of managing the HR environment of a multi-disciplinary workforce numbering hundreds and application of organisational policies, wider employment law and practice.
Desirable
- Senior management experience of leading multidisciplinary professional groups.
- Sound understanding of the wider NHS policy agenda and demonstrable ability to translate national and local policy into action
Other Factors
Essential
- Demonstrates values that align with those of the Trust. PROUD:
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or evidence of very extensive and directly relevant operational management experience at a senior level.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
Desirable
- Educated to masters level in a management discipline.
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to manage complex change over medium and long term timescales within their own team and at the interface with other teams and organisations
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior management experience gained within a large and complex customer focused organisation
- Experience of managing large budgets within a complex financial regimen and experience of people management
- Experience of managing a service over a number of financial years in order to develop budgetary, management and variance analysis.
- Experience of managing the HR environment of a multi-disciplinary workforce numbering hundreds and application of organisational policies, wider employment law and practice.
Desirable
- Senior management experience of leading multidisciplinary professional groups.
- Sound understanding of the wider NHS policy agenda and demonstrable ability to translate national and local policy into action
Other Factors
Essential
- Demonstrates values that align with those of the Trust. PROUD:
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
