Description
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated leader to join a high-performing service within a welcoming and supportive hospital environment. The Divisional Manager will have responsibility for a diverse portfolio of services including Imaging, Pharmacy, Therapies and Outpatients, working closely with clinical, professional and operational leaders to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred services.
The postholder will be a key member of the divisional leadership team, working in partnership with senior clinicians and service leads to drive operational performance, service improvement, workforce development and financial sustainability. They will collaborate with a broad range of professional groups, including radiologists, radiographers, therapists, dietitians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians and operational colleagues, fostering strong multidisciplinary relationships across the division and hospital.
Reporting to the Divisional Director, the successful candidate will work closely with the Divisional Leadership Team (DLT), providing strategic and operational leadership across the portfolio. The role will involve working with SLT and representing the division at Trust-wide and Board-level meetings, presenting performance updates, leading improvement initiatives and ensuring the division contributes to the wider strategic objectives of the organisation.
The successful candidate will join the organisation at an exciting time, with significant opportunities to contribute to service transformation and modernisation. Key priorities over the coming years include the redesign of clinical pathways, improving access to services, strengthening community-based care, embracing innovation and becoming increasingly digitally enabled. This role offers the opportunity to influence these developments and play a key part in shaping future service delivery across not only Core Services, but the Medicine, Women's & Children's and the Surgery division. The role will be instrumental in shaping and encouraging our service management and administrative teams that underpin this too.
The role of the Divisional Manager (DM) is to provide strong local leadership to the Division and to balance strategic plans with operational needs and robust delivery. The DM will provide strategic leadership at divisional level, ensure that there are appropriate systems and processes within the Division to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care and drive forward the service improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the operational effectiveness of the Division.
The main duties of the job include:
- Providing strategic leadership at divisional level
- Ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care
- Driving forward the service improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the operational effectiveness of the Division
The person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required for the role, including:
- Proven track record of successful and sustained management in an NHS Foundation Trust or similar organisation
- Evidence of a track record in change management
- Experience of managing people and teams
- Experience in developing creative solutions to problems
- Good understanding of inter-agency working
- Planning, developing and implementing strategies
- The ability to express oneself clearly in writing
- In-depth knowledge in a number of management disciplines acquired through training and experience to degree level or equivalent
- Education to degree level or equivalent qualification and or experience
- Postgraduate management diploma or equivalent
- Evidence of further professional academic or management studies