Job summary
- Main area
- Transplant - Management
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 180-C-245188
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division C
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/05/2024
Employer heading
Deputy Operations Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Deputy Operations Manager to join the Transplant Directorate (Nephrology, Hepatology, Transplant Surgery and HPB Surgery).
Working closely with the Operations Manager you will play a pivotal role in the delivery of the Division C and Transplant operational and transformation agenda.
We require an experienced manager with a track record of managing services within an acute hospital setting and delivering targets.
You will possess the confidence and skills that will enable you to understand the complex business needs of the services you manage and the division. You will have excellent people skills, credibility and critical thinking at every level and be able to demonstrate delivery of targets and transformational projects.
Main duties of the job
Working with the Operations Manager to deliver operational targets and service development projects. You will manage a team of people across multiple sites effectively. Alongside operational and financial management for defined service areas within the Directorate, contributing to strategic and service planning as required.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 12000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on the 7th May 2024.
Interviews are due to be held on the 17th May 2024.
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Degree/equivalent professional qualification or evidence of middle to senior management experience.
- Recognised management qualification.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate qualification in health service management.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of managing a clinical, social or equivalent service.
- Success in working collaboratively across professions and services.
- Demonstrable success in planning and managing change.
- Commissioning and service planning.
- Significant budgetary management experience.
- Significant experience of managing a large workforce.
Desirable criteria
- Public sector experience.
- Previous experience of managing specialist services.
- Previous experience of managing surgical services.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Commissioning and service planning processes.
- Clinical Governance.
- The NHS and Modernisation agenda.
- The importance of successful partnership working.
- Principles of lifelong learning.
- Professional education and training.
- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention.
- Patient and public involvement.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Leadership and ability to motivate and empower others.
- Excellent communications skills including: Interpersonal skills, Liaison and negotiation skills and Writing and presentation skills.
- Influencing clinicians and managers for service improvement.
- Budget and resource management.
- Risk Management.
- Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion. 7) Computer literacy 8) Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently 9) Positive and effective team worker
- Computer literacy.
- Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently.
- Positive and effective team worker.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Willingness to work anywhere within the Trust and to travel, on occasions, within the region and nationally.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
.png "NHS Rainbow badge")
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty McKibben
- Job title
- Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 217876
List jobs with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Administrative Services or all sectors