Job summary
In conjunction with the Matrons the post holder will work across organisational boundaries to ensure appropriate services are in place and to deliver national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards.
The Directorate Manager is responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the Clinical Directorate and delivering key quality, performance and financial plans, achieving key service improvements within the Clinical Directorate and line managing designated staff.
Main duties of the job
The postholder is a key member of the senior Clinical Directorate leadership team and will develop and implement Directorate plans to secure the agreed objectives for the Clinical Directorate and make a positive contribution to delivery of health care across the local health community.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This list is not exhaustive, please refer to the full job description
- Contribute to the strategic planning of services within the Clinical Directorate, identifying future resourcing requirements and ensuring that the Directorate meets contractual and other requirements
- Ensure the delivery of a responsive, high quality, value for money service within the Clinical Directorate
- Achieve patient access standards and activity targets with the available resources.
- Monitor and take action to ensure that all quality, productivity and profitability targets are achieved.
- Develop services in line with the Trusts strategic direction.
- In line with Clinical Directorate and Trust strategy, develop best practice, service modernisation and improvement plans for the area, to enhance the patient experience and deliver value for money.
- Facilitate change within and across organisational and professional boundaries.
- In agreement with the Clinical Director formulate an effective and viable business plan for the Clinical Directorate, working to ensure that it conforms with the overall Clinical Directorate and Trust business plan and takes account of the demand for services from the Trust and local and national trends and developments.
- Prepare the Annual Business Plan for the Directorate and contribute to the development and delivery of the Divisions clinical service and financial strategy.
- Prepare monthly activity and trend reports for the Directorate to enable accurate forecasting of performance against key financial, service and quality targets and standards.
- Prepare, in conjunction with the General Manager, business cases for all aspects of the Clinical Directorates activities.
- Coordinate the development of cost improvement plans for the Clinical Directorate.
- To be accountable for delegated budgets within the Clinical Directorate and ensure the achievement of financial balance
- Lead in the development and delivery of cost improvement programmes and manage expenditure within designated control levels.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This list is not exhaustive, please refer to the full job description
- Contribute to the strategic planning of services within the Clinical Directorate, identifying future resourcing requirements and ensuring that the Directorate meets contractual and other requirements
- Ensure the delivery of a responsive, high quality, value for money service within the Clinical Directorate
- Achieve patient access standards and activity targets with the available resources.
- Monitor and take action to ensure that all quality, productivity and profitability targets are achieved.
- Develop services in line with the Trusts strategic direction.
- In line with Clinical Directorate and Trust strategy, develop best practice, service modernisation and improvement plans for the area, to enhance the patient experience and deliver value for money.
- Facilitate change within and across organisational and professional boundaries.
- In agreement with the Clinical Director formulate an effective and viable business plan for the Clinical Directorate, working to ensure that it conforms with the overall Clinical Directorate and Trust business plan and takes account of the demand for services from the Trust and local and national trends and developments.
- Prepare the Annual Business Plan for the Directorate and contribute to the development and delivery of the Divisions clinical service and financial strategy.
- Prepare monthly activity and trend reports for the Directorate to enable accurate forecasting of performance against key financial, service and quality targets and standards.
- Prepare, in conjunction with the General Manager, business cases for all aspects of the Clinical Directorates activities.
- Coordinate the development of cost improvement plans for the Clinical Directorate.
- To be accountable for delegated budgets within the Clinical Directorate and ensure the achievement of financial balance
- Lead in the development and delivery of cost improvement programmes and manage expenditure within designated control levels.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant field or equivalent level of management experience.
Desirable
- MBA or post graduate management qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Significant acute operational management experience, in a complex organization.
- Experience of analysing and interpreting information to identify and manage variances in performance and identifying solutions to deliver improvement.
- Experience of business planning techniques and managing business processes.
Desirable
- Experience of designing/ improving business systems and processes.
- Project management experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- General Management theory and practice, including quality, financial management, HR management and service/business development.
- Change management/service improvement techniques.
Desirable
- Broad understanding of the NHS and key policy issues that affect business performance.
Skills and Personal Qualities
Essential
- First class interpersonal skills with ability to gain and sustain credibility with clinicians/managers.
- Highly skilled in influencing and persuading others to deliver in the context of organizational operational goals and strategic objectives.
- Able to prioritise and manage the ongoing work of services and/or projects.
- Results orientated and delivery against targets and deadlines.
- Able to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing.
Desirable
- Commercial acumen.
- Political awareness - ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others.
Interests and Motivation to the Job
Essential
- Desire to succeed and make a real impact on the quality of care and efficiency of services provided.
- Committed to achievement of overall Trust performance and willing to challenge practice/behaviours that undermine the need to work as one team within the Trust.
- Sets high standards and motivated to achieve these.
- Works at optimum level in a complex, pressurised environment and is motivated by stretching targets and achieving continuous improvement.
- Committed to living the Trust's values, willing to inspire others to act in accordance with those values and motivated to use those values to drive business performance and service development.
- Comfortable in challenging traditional approaches and enjoys winning support for new ideas.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant field or equivalent level of management experience.
Desirable
- MBA or post graduate management qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Significant acute operational management experience, in a complex organization.
- Experience of analysing and interpreting information to identify and manage variances in performance and identifying solutions to deliver improvement.
- Experience of business planning techniques and managing business processes.
Desirable
- Experience of designing/ improving business systems and processes.
- Project management experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- General Management theory and practice, including quality, financial management, HR management and service/business development.
- Change management/service improvement techniques.
Desirable
- Broad understanding of the NHS and key policy issues that affect business performance.
Skills and Personal Qualities
Essential
- First class interpersonal skills with ability to gain and sustain credibility with clinicians/managers.
- Highly skilled in influencing and persuading others to deliver in the context of organizational operational goals and strategic objectives.
- Able to prioritise and manage the ongoing work of services and/or projects.
- Results orientated and delivery against targets and deadlines.
- Able to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing.
Desirable
- Commercial acumen.
- Political awareness - ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others.
Interests and Motivation to the Job
Essential
- Desire to succeed and make a real impact on the quality of care and efficiency of services provided.
- Committed to achievement of overall Trust performance and willing to challenge practice/behaviours that undermine the need to work as one team within the Trust.
- Sets high standards and motivated to achieve these.
- Works at optimum level in a complex, pressurised environment and is motivated by stretching targets and achieving continuous improvement.
- Committed to living the Trust's values, willing to inspire others to act in accordance with those values and motivated to use those values to drive business performance and service development.
- Comfortable in challenging traditional approaches and enjoys winning support for new ideas.
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
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).
