Directorate Manager IM A - Secondment/Acting Up- 9 Months

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 December 2024

Job summary

Directorate Manager IM A - Secondment/Acting Up - 9 Months

To be managerially responsible for the Integrated Medicine services, providing clear leadership and working with the Clinical Director, Matron, Care Group Director and Care Group Director of Operations to ensure the provision of high quality patient care and the most efficient and cost effective use of resources. The services/sites within these portfolios are:

Integrated Medicine A:

Renal
Audiology
Sexual Health
Outpatients

To be responsible for ensuring that within all specific work areas all local and national performance standards and objectives are met.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for ensuring the operational delivery of services; leading and effectively implementing change management initiatives to improve service provision.
To influence and lead on the strategic development and service improvement of clinical services in conjunction with the Matron and in support of the Clinical Director.
With the Clinical Director and Matron, to view the grouping of services as a business unit in line with service line reporting (SLR), and to lead on embedding and using SLR in the management of the Directorate.
Other services may be added to this portfolio in line with the Directorate Managers' personal development programme, and the needs of the service.
To participate in the Trust's on-call manager rota.

About us

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire.With seven sites, the Trust employs approximately 6,500 staff and serves a population of around 1,000,000 people.

In January 2020, the Trust was rated 'Good' overall by the CQC and was proud to receive the inspection report, which highlighted many examples of good and outstanding care across the Trust.Reflecting the high standards of care on offer, recent patient surveys show that over 90 per cent of patients rate their overall experience of services as excellent, very good or good.

We provide acute medical and surgical services to Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire and specialist services such as cancer, dialysis and eye surgery to a wider population across Berkshire and its borders.

Date posted

12 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

193-6809754NCG-2

Job locations

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Craven Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details on the job role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details on the job role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Person Specification

Skills,Knowledge and Aptitude

Essential

oSignificantandprovensenior management experience oProfessionalmanagement qualification or equivalent oEducated to Masters Level in a health related, business or leadership field, or equivalent in depth experience.
oAbility to problem solving oDemonstrate analytical skills oAble to assess a broad range of complex information quickly and accurately including e.g. finance, activity, clinical, technical service data oAbility to oversee and interpret the performance targets of specialties oAbility to provide strategic leadership to senior clinical teams oManage complex and multi-faceted problems oAbility to analyse information on the performance of specialties ensuring corrective actions are carried out

Desirable

Skills, Knowledge and Aptitude
oPossessionof Clinical Qualification oSignificant experience within a clinical role

Planningand Organisational Skills

Essential

oAbility to support business objectives oAbilitytoplanownworkloadand balance competing priorities

Person Specification

Skills,Knowledge and Aptitude

Essential

oSignificantandprovensenior management experience oProfessionalmanagement qualification or equivalent oEducated to Masters Level in a health related, business or leadership field, or equivalent in depth experience.
oAbility to problem solving oDemonstrate analytical skills oAble to assess a broad range of complex information quickly and accurately including e.g. finance, activity, clinical, technical service data oAbility to oversee and interpret the performance targets of specialties oAbility to provide strategic leadership to senior clinical teams oManage complex and multi-faceted problems oAbility to analyse information on the performance of specialties ensuring corrective actions are carried out

Desirable

Skills, Knowledge and Aptitude
oPossessionof Clinical Qualification oSignificant experience within a clinical role

Planningand Organisational Skills

Essential

oAbility to support business objectives oAbilitytoplanownworkloadand balance competing priorities

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.