Divisional Director of SuWOn

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity for a dynamic individual to lead one of our innovative divisions as a Divisional Director. The SuWOn Division covers Surgery, Women's & Oncology.

The Divisional Director is accountable to the Chief Operating Officer for the overall performance of the division and as a key member of the Trust's Management Team will be expected to contribute to the development and implementation of the Trust's long-term strategy and business plans. This is a key strategic and operational role leading the division and the post holder will provide visible leadership to all staff within the division and ensure the delivery of agreed objectives and plans across all the division's activities with the aim of securing patient focused, modern, effective and efficient services, both across the Trust and within the wider local health economy.

The appointed candidate will be required to participate in the Executive Director On-call Rota. This role attracts either a VSM or Consultant Salary, dependant on staff group.

Main duties of the job

The Divisional Director will be responsible for delivering excellent performance against key quality standards and targets and for taking corrective action when required.

The key performance areas include but are not limited to:

• Service delivery and quality standards set out in National Guidance and local service contracts.
• Delivery of contract activity and patient access standards; including 18 weeks,4 hour and Cancer.
• Financial performance targets, delivering the required income and expenditure plan.
• Continuous monitoring of the performance of senior staff within the Division, ensuring the delivery of set objectives and targets and taking appropriate action through development and/or performance management to secure the achievement of optimum performance and clinical quality.
• Ensuring governance is embedded within the Division and all staff understand their responsibility for service quality and patient safety and that mechanisms are in place to monitor patient safety and measure clinical outcomes.
• The development and implementation of the Division's business plan and core objectives, ensuring the plans contribute to the delivery of the Trust's primary objectives.
• Ensuring that national objectives are met within the Division, in particular those relating to clinical standards and performance objectives set out in the NHS Operating Framework.

Full details of the role are available on the attached job description.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

• Ensure the provision of safe, high quality clinical care across the Division.
• Be responsible for ensuring clinical engagement in the delivery of full compliance with the requirements of all aspects of the Trusts governance, safety, quality and risk framework including compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Be responsible for medical staffing issues including when problems or difficulties arise and to conduct any enquiries with respect to performance and conduct in conjunction with the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Medical Officer and Chief People Officer.
• Ensure systems are in place within the Division to enable all staff to participate in an annual appraisal, statutory and mandatory training and that staff are fully engaged in working in line with the Trusts values.
• Ensure job plans are in place for all consultants and nonconsultant career grade posts that align with the needs of the clinical services and that they are reviewed annually.
• Work in conjunction with the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Medical Officer and colleague Divisional Directors to develop and implement a Trust wide consultant performance management and appraisal system.
• Be responsible for encouraging appropriate and constructive team working.
• Represent all service lines within the Division at a corporate level and ensure effective communication channels and engagement between clinicians and managers within the Division.
• Further information is available in the job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified and clinically credible with a post-registration qualification
• Have knowledge of the NHS, its infrastructure and the recent reforms
• Postgraduate management/ further study qualification

Experience

• Experience of working within the NHS within a hospital environment, preferably a teaching hospital
• Experience in managing clinical services
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance gained from experience of working with such systems
• Have a personal vision for the future of clinical services, developed in the context of credible past experience, personal beliefs and the Trust's strategy, combined with the ability to inspire others and translate strategic objectives into operational plans
• Clear in-depth understanding of one of the Trust's key corporate strategic priorities (urgent care, elective care, cancer, partnerships)
• Experience of building and developing high performing teams
• Proven ability to communicate, work effectively with and influence a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Experience of change management
• Experience of working within a devolved management structure

Skills & Abilities

• Have the capacity to analyse problems in a logical and structure way, generating optional and innovative solutions and adapting approaches to problem-solving to achieve sustainable outcomes
• Be able to anticipate problems, to understand the driving forces behind problems, or potential problems and being able to identify and use levers to achieve change
• Be skilled in influencing and negotiating internally and externally and using these skills to gain the best deal for the Trust and the clinical services
• Have the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities
• Be articulate and skilled in presenting ideas to others
• Have the ability to seek out, recognise and pursue opportunities
• Highly developed leadership, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and teams ? See management as an open, involving and participative process. ? Have good insight and be able to handle constructive criticism. ? Proven ability to work in partnership with managers and other clinicians. ? Demonstrate tenacity in dealing with issues. ? Demonstrate the ability to hold clinical colleagues to account
• Have the proven ability to operate and think laterally at operational and strategic levels, with good analytical skills. ? Be articulate with practised and developed communication and presentation skills. ? Be innovative and responsive to change. ? Be industrious and versatile. ? Be tactful, diplomatic and at ease with all kinds of people. ? Demonstrate an understanding of quality assurance activity. ? Able to participate in the Director 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.

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