Directorate General Manager

Job summary

The Directorate General Manager post is a high profile leadership position within the Medicine and Emergency Care Group, responsible for operational delivery of an exciting and dynamic portfolio. We are searching for an ambitious senior operational leader to join the Clinical Director and Senior Nursing Team to support the delivery of outstanding care and experience for our patients. The Directorate includes Respiratory, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Care of Elderly and Frailty Specialities and the successful post holder would have senior responsibility for these areas as well as a Trust wide profile.

The portfolio offers a mix of elective and urgent care and is ideal for someone who wishes to be challenged, deliver improvement and progress their career on a path towards an operational director role.

The new hospital is an exciting prospect for Medicine, but so is our quality plan and ambitions which really demonstrate what we are about. Our strategy aims to improve health outcomes including timely access to planned care and optimising hospital length of stay for urgent care pathways, so we are amongst the top quartile of trusts nationally and achieve some of the best rated clinical outcomes. The Directorate is active in research and education which underpins our innovation in care and as the operational lead you will be able to oversee the development and implementation of projects.

Main duties of the job

With a passion for patient centred care, you will have a proven track record of achieving high quality outcomes for patients and delivering performance standards. The ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to drive change and improve care is essential. We are committed to supporting personal development and professional growth of our staff as evidenced by the promotion of the current post holder.

1. Make autonomous decisions regarding the operational management of services within the Directorate.2. Day to day responsibility for the operational management for specific services/departments within the Directorate.3. To identify and implement on-going modernisation and new ways of working and innovation within the Directorate.4. To routinely monitor and track performance associated with national targets, and trust objectives, taking action where required to ensure all targets are met within the Directorate .5. To troubleshoot operational issues on a daily basis, that affect performance within the Directorate, liaising with relevant managers to identify and resolve as required.

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens next year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

Employer details

Employer name

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Address

SWB NHS Trust

Sandwell/Birmingham

B71 4HJ

Employer's website

https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Address

SWB NHS Trust

Sandwell/Birmingham

B71 4HJ

Employer's website

https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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