Job summary
As a key member of the CSTO Business Unit, your role will be specifically focused on the Radiology, Pharmacy, Infection Prevention & Control (IPC), and Medical Equipment Management Department (MEMD) services. Collaborating closely with key Department Leads, you will share joint responsibility for providing high-quality, safe patient care, emphasizing effective and efficient operational management and optimizing resource utilization within the clinical services.
Reporting to the Deputy Divisional General Manager, your responsibilities will extend to engaging with clinical teams to address day-to-day operational challenges within the specialties. This multifaceted role encompasses budget management, the realization of agreed-upon performance objectives, participation in business planning and strategy, and a commitment to continuously improving patient care pathways.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- To demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the NHS environment with knowledge of the current issues for Foundation Trusts.
- A broad range of knowledge and skills relevant to the role.
- Demonstrate an understanding of key performance indicators/ productivity metrics affecting a FT's overall performance
- Knowledge of service improvement tools and techniques
- A broad understanding of the network of healthcare provision.
- An understanding of the strategic issues facing the Division's services.
- An understanding of the professional and educational issues within the Division's services
Qualifications Academic/ Craft/ Professional
Essential
- First degree or equivalent
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience; or willing to work towards a masters.
Desirable
- ECDL
- Post Graduate Management Qualifications
Further Training
Essential
- Management training and evidence of sustained personal and professional development.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of operational management at a senior level.
- Proven track record in leadership and change management.
- Budget and HR management.
- Service and policy development and improvement
Desirable
- Conference/formal presentations
- Cross-organisational working
- General management experience
Skills & Personal Attributes
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to command trust-wide credibility
- Demonstrate awareness of own personal strengths and limitations with high personal standards and emotional resilience
- Demonstrate leadership skills to drive and motivate continuous improvement, showing political astuteness and a commitment to action in the face of challenge
- Skills in strategic thinking, problem analysis and negotiation.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written
- Commercially and financially literate with an understanding of marketing and how to position the Division's services against increased competition
- Ability to lead change through people, to inspire vision and develop a common purpose.
- Able to manage conflict positively whilst empowering others and supporting team working
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Must be adaptable and work flexibly to the requirements of the post.
- Participation in the Middle Mangers' On-call rota.
- Be able to transfer between the Trusts' Hospital sites, and to other Trusts/venues when required.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- To demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the NHS environment with knowledge of the current issues for Foundation Trusts.
- A broad range of knowledge and skills relevant to the role.
- Demonstrate an understanding of key performance indicators/ productivity metrics affecting a FT's overall performance
- Knowledge of service improvement tools and techniques
- A broad understanding of the network of healthcare provision.
- An understanding of the strategic issues facing the Division's services.
- An understanding of the professional and educational issues within the Division's services
Qualifications Academic/ Craft/ Professional
Essential
- First degree or equivalent
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience; or willing to work towards a masters.
Desirable
- ECDL
- Post Graduate Management Qualifications
Further Training
Essential
- Management training and evidence of sustained personal and professional development.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of operational management at a senior level.
- Proven track record in leadership and change management.
- Budget and HR management.
- Service and policy development and improvement
Desirable
- Conference/formal presentations
- Cross-organisational working
- General management experience
Skills & Personal Attributes
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to command trust-wide credibility
- Demonstrate awareness of own personal strengths and limitations with high personal standards and emotional resilience
- Demonstrate leadership skills to drive and motivate continuous improvement, showing political astuteness and a commitment to action in the face of challenge
- Skills in strategic thinking, problem analysis and negotiation.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written
- Commercially and financially literate with an understanding of marketing and how to position the Division's services against increased competition
- Ability to lead change through people, to inspire vision and develop a common purpose.
- Able to manage conflict positively whilst empowering others and supporting team working
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Must be adaptable and work flexibly to the requirements of the post.
- Participation in the Middle Mangers' On-call rota.
- Be able to transfer between the Trusts' Hospital sites, and to other Trusts/venues when required.
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.
