Job summary
We are looking for an outstanding individual to join the Acute & Emergency Medicine and Pharmacy Care Group (AEMP) at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Operations Director. AEMP is one of twelve clinical Care Groups, incorporating the Acute Medicine and Accident & Emergency Directorate and the Pharmacy Directorate.
The Deputy Operations Director is a senior member of the management team across the Trust, with specific responsibility within the AEMP Care Group. Both Directorates within AEMP provide fast-paced and high-profile services seeking to continually improve and shorten 'lengths of stay' for our patients while the Pharmacy Directorate also seeks to safely deliver both pharmaceutical care to patients attending the Trust's 5 hospital sites and medicines management services to our workforce across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work closely with our multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, nursing staff, pharmacists, technicians, healthcare scientists and administrative staff to deliver high quality services on a day-to-day basis and to plan and implement excellent models of care for the longer term. They will be responsible for the delivery of quality, performance and financial targets and will also contribute to strategic planning and service development. The post holder will have his/her own portfolio which will include a combination of directorate-specific and groupwide responsibilities, as well as being required to provide flexible cover and to deputise for the Operations Director when necessary.
This is a highly visible role and the Deputy Operations Director will be an inspirational leader and role model for STH PROUD values and for the Care Group both internally and externally.
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, hardworking, and confident with excellent leadership, communication and organisational skills plus demonstrable experience of effective budgetary management and service planning and a commitment to personal and professional development.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and most successful healthcare employers in the UK. We offer fantastic opportunities for career progression, training and development, ensuring that roles are both challenging and rewarding.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent work-based learning and experience
- A master's degree or a post-graduate qualification in management and/or able to demonstrate equivalent learning and practice
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development, proactively seeking out new learning opportunities
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working at a managerial level in an acute or community setting, or alternative context with demonstrable relevance
- Experience of leading the development and implementation of strategic and operational service plans
- Experience of business planning, developing service models and capacity and demand management in a clinical setting
- Experience of leading, managing and supporting staff through innovation and change.
- Leadership experience, including the delivery of team objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment, managing attendance and disciplinary issues.
- Experience of managing, monitoring and controlling complex income and expenditure budgets.
- Experience of financial planning and the design and delivery of cost improvement programmes
- Evidence of developing performance management frameworks combining statutory and local targets resulting in performance improvement.
- Demonstrable experience of project management and delivery.
- Experience of procuring IT systems, rolling them out and optimising their use by staff.
- Extensive experience of preparing and presenting complex information, written and verbal to a range of audiences.
Desirable
- Experience of managing research and professional training and education.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work proactively and cooperatively with senior management, clinical staff and other staff at all levels.
- Ability to develop and build effective relationships, negotiate and influence staff at all levels of seniority, including engagement in difficult decisions
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Highly numerate, confident manipulating and interpreting data.
- Highly numerate, confident manipulating and interpreting data.
- Service Improvement skills including e.g data identification and capture, data analysis, process mapping, stakeholder management, standard operating procedure development, benefits realisation, and performance tracking.
- Understanding Risk Management and of Quality Management Systems
- A clear understanding of confidentiality when dealing with matters relating to staff and patients
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to PROUD values in the workplace
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent work-based learning and experience
- A master's degree or a post-graduate qualification in management and/or able to demonstrate equivalent learning and practice
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development, proactively seeking out new learning opportunities
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working at a managerial level in an acute or community setting, or alternative context with demonstrable relevance
- Experience of leading the development and implementation of strategic and operational service plans
- Experience of business planning, developing service models and capacity and demand management in a clinical setting
- Experience of leading, managing and supporting staff through innovation and change.
- Leadership experience, including the delivery of team objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment, managing attendance and disciplinary issues.
- Experience of managing, monitoring and controlling complex income and expenditure budgets.
- Experience of financial planning and the design and delivery of cost improvement programmes
- Evidence of developing performance management frameworks combining statutory and local targets resulting in performance improvement.
- Demonstrable experience of project management and delivery.
- Experience of procuring IT systems, rolling them out and optimising their use by staff.
- Extensive experience of preparing and presenting complex information, written and verbal to a range of audiences.
Desirable
- Experience of managing research and professional training and education.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work proactively and cooperatively with senior management, clinical staff and other staff at all levels.
- Ability to develop and build effective relationships, negotiate and influence staff at all levels of seniority, including engagement in difficult decisions
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Highly numerate, confident manipulating and interpreting data.
- Highly numerate, confident manipulating and interpreting data.
- Service Improvement skills including e.g data identification and capture, data analysis, process mapping, stakeholder management, standard operating procedure development, benefits realisation, and performance tracking.
- Understanding Risk Management and of Quality Management Systems
- A clear understanding of confidentiality when dealing with matters relating to staff and patients
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to PROUD values in the workplace
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).
