Job summary
Here at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust we are looking for a Divisional Director of Operations for our Family Care Division.
As the accountable officer for the Division, this post is a senior managerial role, requiring candidates to have demonstrable experience in similar roles across a range of healthcare services.
The Family Care Division offers huge potential for personal professional growth for the right candidate. The Division provides wide and diverse services for adults and children across Bolton and beyond, and your leadership will help develop those services to provide the best possible care for our patients and their families.
The Divisions aim is to deliver the highest standards of care in maternity, neonates sexual health, gynaecology and a range of acute and community children's services. This includes hospital and community based children's clinical services, 0-19 Public Health Nursing, Paediatric Allied Health Professionals and Paediatric Learning Disability.
More than 6,000 babies are delivered under our care and we carry out around 1,500 gynaecological procedures each year. We're also proud to havea tertiary level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, enabling 1 in 4 women across Greater Manchester to receive in-utero transfer and birth at extreme premature gestation at Bolton. We provide a level 2 Paediatric High Dependency service working in collaboration with GM Acute paediatric services.
The Family Care Division provide care and support in community for children and families across Bolton from birth through to adulthood, offering a range of holistic and developmental support and input throughout their young lives in partnership and collaboration with statutory and voluntary sector partners, to achieve the best outcomes for our children, young people and families.
Main duties of the job
As accountable officer for the division you will be responsible for safe, effective and high quality delivery of all services within your Division. You will do this through creating great places to work, where all colleagues can belong and thrive. You will ensure that your services and inclusive and accessible to all of the population we serve. You will also deliver this within a balanced budget, delivering cost efficiencies as required.
You will manage and work alongside the Divisional Nurse Director and Divisional Medical Director as a triumvirate to lead your Divisional teams to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe, efficient and effective patient care across the Division.
You will report to the Director of Operations and be accountable to the Chief Operating Officer.
About us
We are an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do; we ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care and we are guided by our Trust VOICE values. We are proud that our Trust is rated as 'Good' by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. We are equally as proud to say that our staff have told us, through the staff survey, that we are the best NHS place to work in Greater Manchester; we strongly feel that the people and teams we have here in Bolton are what makes us truly unique.
The aims of this Trust are to improve the health of and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve and ensure that our staff have joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities in which we serve and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed.
We will offer you a supportive, encouraging environment to develop your career and skills, and are fully committed to ensuring you are the best you can be in this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Divisional Director of Operations (DDO) is a key senior management and senior leadership position with the responsibility and accountability to manage, develop, direct and lead service improvement and performance strategies and policies to ensure delivery of high quality, safe, efficient and effective patient care in the Division.
The DDO is responsible for the all performance delivery within the Division. As such the DDO is required to ensure that there are suitable programmes for developing and implementing performance management strategies, implementation of business development, and planning and commercial development strategies which are consistent with the Trust's need for business efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, value for money, high staff morale and improving patient care.
This roles responsibility includes the day-to-day management of all the services within the job remit through the clinical staff and managers. This includes staff management, service delivery, service improvement, clinical governance, financial control and delivery of cost improvement programmes and workstreams within the Turnaround Plan.
The DDO will be responsible for coordinating operational plans for the management team that reflect the Trusts strategic direction.
All senior leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and, when necessary, to take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Divisional Director of Operations (DDO) is a key senior management and senior leadership position with the responsibility and accountability to manage, develop, direct and lead service improvement and performance strategies and policies to ensure delivery of high quality, safe, efficient and effective patient care in the Division.
The DDO is responsible for the all performance delivery within the Division. As such the DDO is required to ensure that there are suitable programmes for developing and implementing performance management strategies, implementation of business development, and planning and commercial development strategies which are consistent with the Trust's need for business efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, value for money, high staff morale and improving patient care.
This roles responsibility includes the day-to-day management of all the services within the job remit through the clinical staff and managers. This includes staff management, service delivery, service improvement, clinical governance, financial control and delivery of cost improvement programmes and workstreams within the Turnaround Plan.
The DDO will be responsible for coordinating operational plans for the management team that reflect the Trusts strategic direction.
All senior leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and, when necessary, to take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- meets all essential (1- yes) (0 - no)
Desirable
Desirable
- meets all - 3, meets most - 2, meets some - 1, meets none - 0
suitable breadth of experience
Essential
- broad range of operational management roles
Wants this specific role
Essential
- Application is specific to this Trust and this role.
suitable gravitas and self-awareness for the role
Essential
- application form demonstrates self awareness of leadership style
- grounded self-awareness plus leadership presence and impact demonstrated at interview
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- meets all essential (1- yes) (0 - no)
Desirable
Desirable
- meets all - 3, meets most - 2, meets some - 1, meets none - 0
suitable breadth of experience
Essential
- broad range of operational management roles
Wants this specific role
Essential
- Application is specific to this Trust and this role.
suitable gravitas and self-awareness for the role
Essential
- application form demonstrates self awareness of leadership style
- grounded self-awareness plus leadership presence and impact demonstrated at interview
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
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).
