Job summary
37.5 hours per week
General Manager in Neurosciences and Spinal Cord Injury
To support the Senior Service Manager in providing operational leadership, business development and people management for services within the Collaborative, ensuring high quality patient care is delivered within available resources and in line with the Trust's overarching strategic objectives.
Main duties of the job
The General Manager will support the Senior Service Manager in developing a culture of high performance, ownership and accountability where safety, quality and excellence in patient outcome and experience is consistently delivered, in line with not only national and locally agreed standards but also the higher standards of performance the Trust sets itself.
The General Manager is expected to act as a change agent and be highly visible to frontline staff, demonstrating strong personal leadership and direction whilst at the same time supporting the building of an effective leadership and management team within the Directorate(s) to ensure organisation sustainability.
This role of the General Manager forms part of the Directorate management team and is expected to work with the Senior/Service Manager in the development and delivery of underpinning Directorate annual operating plans, which should in turn integrate with the Clinical Service overall clinical and business development strategy and overarching Trust strategy.
Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
- Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
- Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First degree or suitable equivalent experience.
- Postgrad diploma in leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Project Management experience and/or qualifications
Desirable
- Masters qualification in relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Experience of successfully managing significant change/project management.
- Experience and evidence of creative strategic thinking
- Recent evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together
- Experience of translating strategic goals into effective operational plans and objectives
- Substantial and relevant management experience, including line management in an operational role
- Demonstrate achievements in managing and meeting targets through finance and commissioning frameworks
Desirable
- Experience in capacity and service planning within an acute health care setting
- Experience of writing Service Level Agreements
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Proven ability to be intellectually flexible and to be able to look beyond existing processes and ways of working to produce more effective service delivery
- Evidence of a sound understanding in operational management, lean manufacturing, six sigma etc or comparable service improvement methodologies. A strong knowledge of change and project management processes
- A sound understanding of the NHS current legislation and national strategy
- Comprehensive knowledge of financial and commissioning framework and experience of workforce and capacity planning. Knowledge of budgetary planning and cost improvement planning processes.
Desirable
- Thorough understanding of NHS waiting time targets
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First degree or suitable equivalent experience.
- Postgrad diploma in leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Project Management experience and/or qualifications
Desirable
- Masters qualification in relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Experience of successfully managing significant change/project management.
- Experience and evidence of creative strategic thinking
- Recent evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together
- Experience of translating strategic goals into effective operational plans and objectives
- Substantial and relevant management experience, including line management in an operational role
- Demonstrate achievements in managing and meeting targets through finance and commissioning frameworks
Desirable
- Experience in capacity and service planning within an acute health care setting
- Experience of writing Service Level Agreements
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Proven ability to be intellectually flexible and to be able to look beyond existing processes and ways of working to produce more effective service delivery
- Evidence of a sound understanding in operational management, lean manufacturing, six sigma etc or comparable service improvement methodologies. A strong knowledge of change and project management processes
- A sound understanding of the NHS current legislation and national strategy
- Comprehensive knowledge of financial and commissioning framework and experience of workforce and capacity planning. Knowledge of budgetary planning and cost improvement planning processes.
Desirable
- Thorough understanding of NHS waiting time targets
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).
