Site Manager

Transformationunitgm; Manchester; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000

Job description

Main area Nursing and Midwifery Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a

Contract Permanent

Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will include 24/7 cover over 365 days per year including Bank Holiday and weekends)

Job ref 349-MRI-6923283*

Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Manchester Royal Infirmary

Town Manchester

Salary £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum, pro rata

Salary period Yearly

Closing 13/04/2025 23:59

Site Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced environment? An opportunity has arisen to join the MRI Site Management Team, as a Site Manager, based at MRI. This role is a key leadership position, working within a team of Site Managers to cover a 24/7 rota.

You will need to be resilient with a committed and flexible work ethos. Excellent interpersonal skills are essential for this role to progress and overcome the day-to-day challenges of managing timely clinical flows in a large multi-specialty hospital which strives for excellence at every opportunity.

You will be joining a committed Team of Site Managers, maintaining an agreed Site model in place with expectations to provide additional senior presence to the Emergency Department overnight to operationally respond to a constantly changing healthcare environment.

If this sounds like the challenging career move you are looking for and you have the experience required, we are looking forward to receiving your application. The Site Management Team encourages informal visits to gain insight into the role.

Main duties of the job

A role model with the ability to inspire confidence and lead team members on duty within Site Management, you will coordinate all admission pathways and chair Site meetings if these are required. You will set actions with CSU management to drive operational performance and to support optimum patient outcomes and timely access to the right level of care.

Supported within a senior management structure, you will work within the MRI Site Management Team to provide professional and operational leadership on a day-to-day basis to ensure emergency, elective, urgent planned, tertiary and repatriation flows are managed to enable timely access to acute pathways, based on clinical need. You will be an assertive, confident, professional practitioner with the experience required as outlined in the person specification for this role. You will be an individual who strives to achieve excellence and the best outcomes for patients by working collaboratively with Clinical Service Units and by demonstrating day-to-day leadership on your shift to ensure the Team manage activity and demand within available bed capacity.

You will have an eye for detail, work proactively and responsively with a consistent focus on quality and safety, be a ‘quick thinker’ for informed decision-making in a fast-paced environment, with the confidence to change direction to meet changing priorities at short notice in a pressure environment, working closely with clinicians and operational staff at all levels.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Person specification

Quals

• Professional diploma in health related subject

Experience

• Able to demonstrate experience working at band 7 for a minimum of 4 years within an acute NHS environment.
• Experience of managing complex situations and developing solutions which result in positive outcomes for care management.
• Experience of managing fast paced patient flow in an acute NHS environment.
• Managing complex communication across numerous stakeholders.
• Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.