Job summary
We're looking for an experienced General Manager to oversee operational service delivery and clinical leadership functions for RISE; Coventry and Warwickshire's specialist mental health service for children and young people.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has an ambition to be the lead provider for integrated children's services in Coventry and Warwickshire. As General Manager you will be a key member of the new integrated children's Directorate Senior Management Team and accountable to the Director of Integrated Children's Services.
Main duties of the job
We're looking for someone who will establish collaborative working relationships with colleagues, Service Users and Carers within the Trust and with external stakeholders such as Commissioners, Local Authorities, Primary Care and other stakeholders to meet the local and national targets for the services in their portfolio.
You will also work in partnership with a wide range of senior colleagues, including the Associate Director of Nursing, Safety and Quality Leads, Psychology and Professional Lead, Medical Leads, Clinical Leads and Business partners. You will be responsible for providing operational management leadership and contribute to strategic planning to ensure that the service area achieves its performance objectives.
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- 12-month preceptorship
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- flexible working opportunities
- relocation packages
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The General Manager will be managerially accountable to the Director of Childrens Services and will lead all aspects of the day-to-day operational management of the Children and Young People Mental Health Community Services with a responsibility for ensuring good clinical outcomes across the range of services.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The General Manager will be managerially accountable to the Director of Childrens Services and will lead all aspects of the day-to-day operational management of the Children and Young People Mental Health Community Services with a responsibility for ensuring good clinical outcomes across the range of services.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Evidence of other specialist management training to post graduate level or equivalent experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to build successful teams
- Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations
- Ability to present complex data
- Critically analyse financial and clinical data sets
- Ability to make decisions autonomously.
- Capable of working under pressure, to deadline and within a team and/or own initiative
- Strongly evidenced negotiation, influencing and persuading skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of senior operational management at a senior level in the NHS or within an equivalent healthcare setting
- Experienced in developing both internal and external strategic partner relationships and alliances in progressing organisation operational issue resolution.
- Demonstrable experience across the health and care landscape and related policy development
- Relevant experience of managing service development, stakeholder management; and partnership working at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Significant senior management experience within a range of organisational settings
- Demonstrable track record of identifying, developing, and achieving against cross organisational challenging cost efficiency targets.
- Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective healthcare services as a senior manager in a large, multifaceted healthcare environment including staff management, financial management and change management.
- Evidence of delivering successful strategic and operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in the quality-of-service delivery at a strategic level; including business case preparation, service initiation, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of outcome and output measures
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Evidence of other specialist management training to post graduate level or equivalent experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to build successful teams
- Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations
- Ability to present complex data
- Critically analyse financial and clinical data sets
- Ability to make decisions autonomously.
- Capable of working under pressure, to deadline and within a team and/or own initiative
- Strongly evidenced negotiation, influencing and persuading skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of senior operational management at a senior level in the NHS or within an equivalent healthcare setting
- Experienced in developing both internal and external strategic partner relationships and alliances in progressing organisation operational issue resolution.
- Demonstrable experience across the health and care landscape and related policy development
- Relevant experience of managing service development, stakeholder management; and partnership working at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Significant senior management experience within a range of organisational settings
- Demonstrable track record of identifying, developing, and achieving against cross organisational challenging cost efficiency targets.
- Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective healthcare services as a senior manager in a large, multifaceted healthcare environment including staff management, financial management and change management.
- Evidence of delivering successful strategic and operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in the quality-of-service delivery at a strategic level; including business case preparation, service initiation, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of outcome and output measures
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.
