Job summary
- Main area
- Women and Children's
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 262-A-25-7312383
- Employer
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cumberland Infirmary
- Town
- Carlisle
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy General Manager - Women and Children's
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
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 a newly established Quadrumvirate leadership team consisting of the General Manager, Lead Nurse, Collaborative Chair and Director of Midwifery to shape the healthcare services for women and children within the Trust.
In this role, you will hold an operational and strategic leadership position, overseeing 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.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Have overall responsibility for the effective operational management of Acute and Community services across several sites within the 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 in service delivery.
- The post holder will be expected to work on multiple sites.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
· Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
· If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Important Information
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
For candidates applying using a Hotmail account or have strict firewall settings please ensure the following:
- Junk Mail is checked regularly
Disclosure and Barring Service:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.
The changes mean that:
- youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.
If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.
Nacro – Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: [email protected]
Unlock – Tel: 01634 247350, email [email protected] or complete the online form on the Unlock website
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Standard Check: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
Enhanced Check: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.
A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
Excellent opportunities for development
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies
EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
These schemes are subject to availability
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification to Masters level or equivalent professional education in a relevant field
- Training in leadership and management skills in an NHS setting
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the area of the Collaborative
- Experience of the area of the Collaborative
- Experience in leading investigations
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly developed operational management knowledge acquired through a combination of in-depth experience and post graduate study
- Knowledge of change management and 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
Desirable criteria
- Equality impact assessments
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- 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
- Effective written / report writing skills.
- 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.
- Project management skills
- Establish visibility and credibility in equal measure across all localities.
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Political awareness
Personal Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
- Confidence, decisiveness, initiative and high self-motivation
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- 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 in service delivery.
- Post holder will be expected to work across multiple sites
Desirable criteria
- Driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amy Thompson
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768904843
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
South Parkhouse Building
Baron Way
Kingmoor Park
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA6 4SJ
- Telephone
- 01228936281
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