Deputy Director of Operations (DDO)
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Are you an inspirational operational leader with the skills to oversee high quality women's and children's services, and to drive forward a really exciting and complex agenda? Do you have a compassionate leadership style? If so, Evelina London Women's and Children's Clinical Group, part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, wants to hear from you.
We have an exciting opportunity to appoint a new fixed-term Deputy Director of Operations.
We are recruiting to this new fixed-term role as Evelina London's Director of Operations and Improvement is being seconded part-time into the Operational Delivery Director role as Evelina London Children's Hospital prepares to become the home of our region's specialist children's cancer services.
We are advertising this as an 18-month role in the first instance and there may be an opportunity to extend.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary:
- Lead the design and operation of the Clinical Groups performance management framework and provide assurance that it is effective
- Lead a data-based approach to performance improvement
- Lead cross-Clinical Group / pan-directorate plans and initiatives, including the effective utilisation of resources and assets, on behalf of the Director of Operations
- Provide senior leadership across the Clinical Group including contributions to Trust and system, influencing service design and delivery across the organisation
- Monitor the performance and resource utilisation across the directorates and support the introduction of remedial steps where necessary.
- Review the operational performance of the clinical directorates and supporting the Director of Operations in the performance appraisal of clinical and professional staff within the directorates (where appropriate).
- Develop the leadership potential of all staff.
- Represent the Trust within the NHS and wider community, and with partner organisations, and working closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interests of patient care.
- Ensure sound financial management and adherence to expenditure and income targets
About us
Trust values:
As part of Guy's and St Thomas', our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values. The post holder will:
- Put patients first: 'What would I want for my family?'
- Take pride in what we do: 'Am I doing my very best?'
- Respect others: 'What would it be like if I was in your shoes?'
- Strive to be the best: 'How could we do it better?'
- Act with integrity: 'Am I doing the right thing?'
Our values and behaviours framework describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action.
Leadership roles:
We have a set of leadership behaviours that we expect from managers, consultants and anyone in a leadership role. These behaviours were developed as a result of conversations with more than 120 of our leaders.
We expect our leaders to:
- lead with kindness- provide a caring environment for the people they lead and value diversity
- be visible and engaged- engage with the people who deliver services to women, children and families
- have absolute focus- remain focused on the vision and strategy
- be open and honest- model transparency about results, outcomes, progress, aims and defects
- collaborate and connect- encourage and practice collaboration across the wider health system.
Date posted
23 July 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 9
Salary
£99,891 to £114,949 a year p.a. inc HCA (pro rata)
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
18 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
196-SMT1587
Job locations
Becket House
1 Lambeth Palace Rd
London
SE1 7EU
Employer details
Employer name
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Becket House
1 Lambeth Palace Rd
London
SE1 7EU
Employer's website
https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
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