Job summary
We are seeking a passionate, inspired leader to thrive and drive our surgical and theatre services through the exciting years ahead. The Divisional Director for Surgery and Theatres at RMCH MCS is a demanding but extremely rewarding role. We are looking for an individual with the tenacity and determination to succeed.
As Divisional Director, you will role model a compassionate style of leadership which promotes, empowerment and ensures that decision-making is allocated to appropriate levels.
Using your management expertise, you will support the Director of Operations, working closely with the senior divisional leadership team (SLT) to ensure that operational performance targets, including waiting lists, finance, quality of services to patients and improve services towards best practice standards within available income are achieved. Furthermore, provide a positive contribution to the provision of health services across the Group and the local health and social care economy
You will work in partnership with the RMCH SLT, Divisional SLT and partners across GM, Northwest & the Children's Hospital Alliance to deliver ambitious strategies/plans/objectives so collaboration/shared thinking will be delivered.
Informal & confidential conversation about the role, please contact Andrea Myerscough, Director of Operations at RMCH/MCSs via her Executive Assistant - 01617011418
Main duties of the job
The Divisional Director is responsible to the Director of Operations for the direct delivery of all patient services within the Division of Surgery and Theatres. This involves ensuring that all operational performance targets, including waiting lists, finance, the quality of services to patients and improving services towards best practice standards within available income are achieved.
The Division of Surgery and Theatres comprises of two Directorates, Paediatric Surgical Services and Theatres, Booking & Scheduling and Pre-operative Services.
The postholder will work closely with the Division's Clinical Director and Lead Nurse, Human Resources and Finance leads under the direction of the Director of Operations and advice and support from the other RMCH Senior Leadership Directors to achieve the MFT/RMCH objectives. They will be expected to make a positive contribution to the provision of health services across the Group and the local health and social care economy.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
RMCH MCS
The Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital is the busiest UK childrens hospital, providing secondary care for Greater Manchester and highly specialised care for children throughout the NW and the UK. As the designated Childrens Major Trauma Centre for Greater Manchester we are proud to have nationally/internationally renowned treatment and research programmes in a number of specialities.
Our mission statement: Our Family Caring for Yours recognises families can be with us for many years and the opportunity to deliver outstanding care begins with a positive, inclusive/compassionate working culture. Our committed SLT are dedicated to ensure colleagues across the RMCH/MCSs work collaboratively in an environment enabling them to exceed their potential/deliver the best possible care to our patients and their families.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
RMCH MCS
The Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital is the busiest UK childrens hospital, providing secondary care for Greater Manchester and highly specialised care for children throughout the NW and the UK. As the designated Childrens Major Trauma Centre for Greater Manchester we are proud to have nationally/internationally renowned treatment and research programmes in a number of specialities.
Our mission statement: Our Family Caring for Yours recognises families can be with us for many years and the opportunity to deliver outstanding care begins with a positive, inclusive/compassionate working culture. Our committed SLT are dedicated to ensure colleagues across the RMCH/MCSs work collaboratively in an environment enabling them to exceed their potential/deliver the best possible care to our patients and their families.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree and Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and experience in management.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Preferably in a health care subject
Experience
Essential
- Successful track record and relevant experience as a lead manager within an NHS organisation managing clinical services
- Demonstrate evidence of sound financial/staff management.
- Evidence of effectively managing change.
Desirable
- Experience within an acute hospital setting.
Skills
Essential
- Political astuteness, understanding what can and cannot be delivered at Lead level.
- A proven ability to obtain and consistently achieve results and targets
- Highly developed Leadership skills with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and teams.
- The ability to shape the future and bring staff with you.
- Proven ability to deal with wide range of data and information and take appropriate decisions from it.
- A proven ability to come up with flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems.
- Excellent collaborative working skills and able to build strong relationships with clinical Leaders and professional staff groups and a proven ability to influence and change those groups.
- Effective and strategic influencing skills and all levels in the organisation including influencing Trust Board.
- Proven ability of Leading change through people.
- A management style that empowers others and evidence of successfully driving a learning coaching culture for all staff in your area of control.
- Holding to account others to ensure they deliver to their targets and dealing effectively with performance.
- A deep motivation to drive and improve performance in the service and in others.
- The confidence to succeed and overcome individual and organisational obstacles
- Being able to manage own emotions and be resilient in a range of complex and demanding situations.
- A strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards in Leadership.
Desirable
- Experience of partnership Working.
- Evidence of playing a major role in an organisational change programme.
- Formal project management training.
- Presentational/ media experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population.
Values
Essential
- A strong commitment to the values of MFT
Other
Essential
- Requirement to be on call rota.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree and Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and experience in management.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Preferably in a health care subject
Experience
Essential
- Successful track record and relevant experience as a lead manager within an NHS organisation managing clinical services
- Demonstrate evidence of sound financial/staff management.
- Evidence of effectively managing change.
Desirable
- Experience within an acute hospital setting.
Skills
Essential
- Political astuteness, understanding what can and cannot be delivered at Lead level.
- A proven ability to obtain and consistently achieve results and targets
- Highly developed Leadership skills with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and teams.
- The ability to shape the future and bring staff with you.
- Proven ability to deal with wide range of data and information and take appropriate decisions from it.
- A proven ability to come up with flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems.
- Excellent collaborative working skills and able to build strong relationships with clinical Leaders and professional staff groups and a proven ability to influence and change those groups.
- Effective and strategic influencing skills and all levels in the organisation including influencing Trust Board.
- Proven ability of Leading change through people.
- A management style that empowers others and evidence of successfully driving a learning coaching culture for all staff in your area of control.
- Holding to account others to ensure they deliver to their targets and dealing effectively with performance.
- A deep motivation to drive and improve performance in the service and in others.
- The confidence to succeed and overcome individual and organisational obstacles
- Being able to manage own emotions and be resilient in a range of complex and demanding situations.
- A strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards in Leadership.
Desirable
- Experience of partnership Working.
- Evidence of playing a major role in an organisational change programme.
- Formal project management training.
- Presentational/ media experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population.
Values
Essential
- A strong commitment to the values of MFT
Other
Essential
- Requirement to be on call rota.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital/ Managed Clinical Services sites
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9WL
Employer's website
https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
