Job summary
- Main area
- Multiple Care Groups
- Grade
- AfC Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 188-AC6013
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Southampton
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 Per annum - Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/05/2024
Employer heading
Care Group Manager
AfC Band 8c
Job overview
Care Group Managers
Due to promotions, we are looking for experienced operational leaders to join our trust and support our high performing and cohesive divisional teams.
We are looking for collaborative and compassionate leaders who are keen to develop their senior operational skills and experience with us. These roles are an excellent platform from which to lead the success of our key clinical services in Southampton - and across the region - and develop your senior operational leadership career.
We have a number of care group opportunities ahead – what we are looking for are motivated and flexible individuals who are keen to develop senior operational experience and jointly lead a care group.
We are a dynamic and fast paced environment, which is always evolving and always improving and encourages innovation. We are committed to your career development and offer a supportive, flexible and collaborative working environment.
Additional information
Closing date is Monday 6th May 2024.
A Stakeholder Session will be held via Teams on 14th May 2024.
Final Panel Interviews will be held at our Trust on 16th May 2024.
Should you wish to have an informal conversation please do contact us, we would love to hear from you. Please on contact Jane McCartney [email protected] or Chris McTaggart on [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
Working for our organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.
All non-clinical roles may involve a mixture of on site and remote working, Specific details and flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Your Responsibilities
What you’ll do
• Oversee the operational delivery of all services in your care group to ensure safe care and effective use of all resources.
• Operational management responsibility for a wide group of internal and external stakeholders including specialty lead clinicians, matrons, operational managers within the care group - and across the Trust.
• You will demonstrate your ability to manage a range of challenges from project delivery to policy and finance to working across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, keeping the patient at the heart of all that we do.
• Lead on service and Trust wide transformation projects and support the strategic development of services to ensure alignment to our Trust values.
What we’re looking for
• Compassionate leaders who can bring a track record of success in a complex, multi-site, patient-facing senior operational delivery and management position, with an ability to maximise the opportunities available within a rapidly changing healthcare community.
• Proven experience in delivering operational excellence in a hospital setting and a track record of transforming the way services are delivered, whilst delivering financial efficiencies.
• A supportive manager who can engage, empower and support career growth in your teams.
• What’s key is that you listen, are patient and resilient and are passionate about our values: Patients First, Working Together, Always Improving.
Person specification
Trust values
Essential criteria
- Patient First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of post qualification study/ professional development to master’s level or equivalent management experience
- Relevant experience of working in an acute healthcare or equivalent setting in a senior operational delivery/ management position
- Demonstrable knowledge of National and Local NHS; including national standards
- Evidence of presenting complex information to internal and external groups in an understandable way.
- Evidence of successful management and engagement to successfully deliver complex change
- Able to develop and implement policy, guidelines, and projects from initiation to completion
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data, to facilitate operational delivery decisions to support KPIs
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of a specialist area
- Knowledge of Patient and Public Involvement Programme
Skills and competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to learn and assimilate information quickly
- Advanced analytical thinking
- Budget management
- Communication
- Diplomacy
- Financial management
- Influencing
- Leadership
- Negotiation skills
- Networking skills
- People management
- Project management
- Workforce planning
- Working under pressure
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Chris Mctaggart
- Job title
- Senior Recruiter
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02381 206525
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