Divisional Director - Surgery, Women's and Children's (Band 9) - Divisional Management - Great [...]

Employer: Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: The Great Western Hospital

Town: Swindon

Salary: £105,385 - £121,271 Per Annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 15/09/2024 08:00

Interview date: 30/09/2024

Divisional Director - Surgery, Women's and Children's

Band 9

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.

Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.

We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.

If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Job overview

Divisional Director - Surgery, Women and Children’s

The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Trust as Divisional Director for our Surgery, Women’s and Children’s (SWC) Division. We are looking for a leader who can bring their vision for driving clinical services for our patients. The role is open to internal & external candidates.

As Divisional Director, you will be responsible for providing strong strategic and operational leadership to the Division, ensuring that the delivery of safe, high quality care to the patients who use our services. With a wide-ranging portfolio, you will receive support and development to enable you to fulfil your potential, become the best version of yourself and make a real difference to our services, our staff, our patients and the community we serve.

Main duties of the job

As the post holder, you will lead and inspire staff to develop, deliver, and improve services within the Surgery, Women’s and Children’s Division, ensuring local and national targets are achieved through high quality patient care and experience within financial control. You will agree the strategic direction and objectives of the Division through your skills of engagement with the clinical, nursing and operational teams and be responsible for delivering on the Trust’s strategic goals.

You will be an enthusiastic and inspirational leader who is resilient and passionate about patient care. You will be a strong strategic thinker with a credible leadership style, and have a focus on achieving delivery and performance targets. You will recognise the importance of effective people and financial management as essential and will be committed to continuing our journey to develop a culture of continuous improvement into everyday practice and strive to be truly open and inclusive in the services we deliver.

Working closely with our local partners, we continue to integrate care and clinical pathways to help our staff deliver excellent care with exciting plans to upgrade a whole range of services on the Great Western Hospitals site through our Way Forward Programme, which includes an expanded and co-located urgent and emergency care service.

Working for our organisation

We offer a rewarding opportunity to join our ambitious Trust with a mandate to make a real impact on the outcomes for the people we serve. Whilst our senior leadership team does not yet fully reflect the people we serve, we are absolutely committed to ensuring it will. We will support any successful candidate to be the best version of themselves and we encourage applicants from any underrepresented groups.

For further information or to arrange an informal discussion with Felicity Taylor-Drewe, Chief Operating Officer, please contact us on 01793 604183. We look forward to hearing from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide strong credible and visible leadership and drive for the implementation of innovation and change, ensuring that relevant staff within the Division are empowered and influenced to improve and develop clinical practice.

Please find attached a full job description and person specification

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent qualification
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development at a senior level to include leadership development
• Post graduate health or management qualification or equivalent
• Experience in health care including clinical qualifications relevant to the division
• NHS Improving Quality tools and techniques in waiting list, demand and capacity management

Experience

• Experience of managing and developing staff in line with NHS Leadership Framework
• Demonstrates understanding and recent experience of project management skills
• Performance management methodology
• Demonstrate use of evidence-based practice
• Significant operational experience in acute/integrated healthcare.
• Previous involvement in NHS service development and reconfiguration
• Experience in participation in NHS on-call service as a senior manager.

Skills

• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other partners and professions through stakeholder management / relationship building (internal and external)
• Ability to influence and negotiate sometimes difficult and conflicting relationships
• To be able to understand, articulate and implement countywide and national policies / agenda
• Ability to manage complex and conflicting priorities, balancing competing priorities of services and staff
• Standard keyboard skills including use of Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
• Plan and deliver effective presentations

Thank you for expressing interest in this role. For further employer guidance, please review the attached supplementary applicant information.

Eligibility for this role requires:

• Current right to work in the UK, subject to verification.
• Qualification of the eligibility sponsorship criteria

From 4 April 2024, UK immigration policy changes have increased minimum salary levels for skilled workers.

Current employees should be aware that this position is advertised as a Great Western Hospitals position and appointment ends any TUPE protection.

Candidates are responsible for covering the cost of their own DBS check if required: £18 for a Standard DBS check, recoverable from the first pay, or £38 for an Enhanced DBS check, divided and recoverable over the initial two pay periods. Payment for DBS checks for bank posts must be settled prior to commencement. Apprentices are exempt from DBS payment.

We are committed to supporting our staff in achieving a healthy work-life balance through flexible work arrangements. Upon joining the Trust, you have the right to request flexible working, with an unlimited number of requests allowed.

Upon acceptance of a job offer, your information will be transferred to the national NHS Electronic Staff Records System. All communication regarding your application will be conducted via email; please ensure to check your junk/spam folders as emails may occasionally be filtered there.

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