Associate Director of Corporate Medical Services *Internal Only*

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

• Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
• If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Important Information

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

For candidates applying using a Hotmail account or have strict firewall settings please ensure the following:

Junk Mail is checked regularly

Disclosure and Barring Service:

On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

The changes mean that:

youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosurethe multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.

Nacro Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: helpline@nacro.org.uk

Unlock Tel: 01634 247350, email advice@unlock.org.uk or complete the online form on the Unlock website

Please note the cost of the DBS check is increasing from 2nd December and the new cost will be

Standard DBS check £21.50, Enhanced DBS check £49.50 + any admin costs.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

Enhanced Check: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

Excellent opportunities for development

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

These schemes are subject to availability

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters level qualification or equivalent and/or equivalent experience

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

• Leadership skills.
• Time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
• Effective decision-making skills.
• Ability to deal with HR issues.
• Innovative and creative in producing future service developments.
• Ability to effectively analyse highly complex situations, data, statistics and other available information with the ability to grasp detail, to inform decisions
• Able to hold professionals and peers to account.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflict.
• Ability to network and build effective and co-operative working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries
• Effective written / report writing skills.
• Computer literate for a range of software packages including word, excel, PowerPoint
• Resilient, able to challenge as well as deal with challenge
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity.
• Establish visibility and credibility in equal measure across all localities.
• Computer literate
• Ability to present highly complex and emotive information clearly and openly with staff.

Personal Circumstances

Essential

• Confident, decisive, resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision, a can do attitude and is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities against competing agendas
• Proactive and assertive
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
• Demonstrate an array of Leadership qualities
• Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation
• Able to develop a culture that promotes equality, diversity and inclusion
• Committed to quality improvement
• Team orientated

Other requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently across Cumbria. The post holder will be expected to work across multiple sites
• Participate in any on-call arrangement or shift system on site which is associated with this role, in order to fulfil the requirements of the base service and also the wider Trust.
• These arrangements may vary from time to time depending upon Trust requirements in the best interests in service delivery.

Desirable

• Driving licence.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• A highly credible leader with experience of building relationships with a range of stakeholders
• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve staff to meet challenging targets including individuals and teams in partnership organisations
• Significant management experience (in an acute setting) as a senior manager including multi-disciplinary team management
• Specialist knowledge of medical education, specialist professional standards and regulatory frameworks
• Significant experience of planning, monitoring and controlling budgets, and cost improvement planning processes.
• Strong performance management experience in meeting performance targets
• Evidence of leading, planning and implementation of major change and service development and transformation
• Clinical governance and risk management experience, including dealing with complex complaints.
• Developing effective networks and partnerships and stakeholder engagement
• Experience of strategic long-term planning
• A sound understanding of the NHS agenda, current legislation and national strategy.
• Specialist knowledge and experience is required over a large number of specialties to include Human Resources, Finance, Performance Management, Planning and Communications in additional to extensive operational management knowledge
• Knowledge of Business Planning processes
• Advanced Knowledge of modernisation techniques such as capacity and demand studies
• Knowledge of Trust wide hospitals, wards, departments, services, policies and procedures

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).