Deputy General Manager-Diagnostics and Clinical Support Collaborative

Deputy General Manager-Diagnostics and Clinical Support Collaborative

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced and forward-thinking leader seeking an opportunity to make a significant impact on healthcare services? We are looking for an exceptional Deputy General Manager to join our NHS Trust located in the surroundings of the Lake District. As a member of our leadership team, you will play a vital role in delivering outstanding performance, quality, and safety of services within the portfolio of services you oversee in the Collaborative. This role offers an incredible chance to work closely with the General Manager and Collaborative Chair to shape healthcare in this Trust.

In this role, you will hold an operational and strategic leadership position, overseeing the development and delivery of service strategy and objectives of a particular group of services within the Collaborative. Working closely with the Collaborative, you will be responsible for delivering operational performance targets, enhancing the quality of services provided, and ensuring financial balance.

You will be responsible for the planning and organisation of a range of complex activities and associated services, working with other services and areas to achieve success. This role involves providing effective leadership and management within teams, ensuring that services are supported to maintain the highest standards and performance requirements. You will report to the General Manager and actively support the achievement of objectives in both the corporate and Collaborative agenda.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Have overall responsibility for the effective operational management of a defined range of services/imaging modalities across several sites within a Collaborative.
• Be responsible for the delivery of targets and performance measures against the national constitutional standards.
• Provide leadership in the development of clinical and support services.
• Be the lead manager for a major area of activity, interpreting corporate and national policies.
• Actively support the General Manager and contribute to the development and delivery of service strategy and objectives.
• Actively support the achievement of objectives within both the corporate and Collaborative agenda.
• Effectively manage numerous budgets and resources whilst maintaining a high level of patient care.
• Participate in any on-call arrangement or shift system which is associated with this role outside of normal working hours, in order to fulfil the requirements of the base service and also the wider Trust. These arrangements may vary from time to time depending upon Trust requirements in the best interests of service delivery.
• The post holder will be expected to work on multiple sites.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification to Masters level or equivalent professional education in a relevant field
• Training in leadership and management skills in an NHS setting

Experience

• Professional knowledge plus additional specialist, management knowledge
• Considerable experience and knowledge with operational service management
• Leadership skills gained through previous experience and/or in-house training
• Knowledge of statutory and legal frameworks within health and social care
• Knowledge of Business Planning processes
• Experience as a senior manager including multi-disciplinary team management
• Developing effective networks and partnerships and stakeholder engagement
• Evidence of delivery and a track record of success
• Experience of delivering significant change within a clinical environment
• Training in Change management
• Knowledge of the area of the Collaborative
• Experience of the area of the Collaborative
• Experience in leading investigations

Knowledge

• Highly developed operational management knowledge acquired through a combination of in-depth experience and postgraduate study
• Knowledge of change management strategies and experience of implementing change
• Knowledge of modernisation techniques such as capacity and demand studies
• Knowledge of NHS agenda and impact on service
• Knowledge of Trust wide hospitals, wards, departments, services, policies and procedures gained through shadowing peers and induction into on-call duties
• Equality impact assessments

Skills and Aptitudes

• Ability to effectively analyse situations and information to inform decisions including analysing data and statistics and other available information
• Experience of leading, coordinating and organising teams
• Experience of managing, monitoring and controlling budgets
• Experience and achievement in meeting performance targets
• Communication / presentation skills - able to engage and communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Computer literate for a range of software packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to network and build effective and co-operative working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries
• Planning and organisational skills including development and implementing strategic service and business planning
• Judgement and analytical skills required to deal with clinical and non-clinical services
• Resilient, able to challenge as well as deal with challenge
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Ability to negotiate and influence others
• Able to manage conflict
• Establish visibility and credibility in equal measure across all localities
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Political awareness

Personal Circumstances

• Time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
• Confidence, decisiveness, initiative and high self-motivation

Other Requirements

• Ability to travel independently across Cumbria
• Participate in any on-call arrangement or shift system on site which is associated with this role, in order to fulfil the requirements of the base service and also the wider Trust. These arrangements may vary from time to time depending upon Trust requirements in the best interests of service delivery.
• Post holder will be expected to work across multiple sites
• Driving licence

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.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cumberland Infirmary/travel between sites

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year, pro rata

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

262-A-24-6170521-A

Job locations

Cumberland Infirmary/travel between sites