Job summary
- Main area
- MSK & Therapies
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 6 months (Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 389-25-7290135
- Employer
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bradford Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Bradford
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy General Manager - 6 Month Secondment
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Closing Date: 21.07.25
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 22.07.25
Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 28.07.25
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the MSK & Therapies Clinical Services Unit (CSU) as Deputy General Manager on a 6-month secondment.
Working closely with the General Manager and the CSU Triumvirate, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, effective, and high-quality delivery of services across the CSU. This includes supporting the achievement of operational targets in access, finance, and quality, while driving service efficiency and patient-centred care.
You will:
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Assist in delivering responsive, innovative, and high-standard services aligned with Trust strategy
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Support and represent the General Manager and the CSU across Trust-wide forums
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Work collaboratively with clinical teams to maintain clinical safety, service quality, and business integrity
This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to gain strategic management experience in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
For informal enquiries, please contact: Tom White, General Manager, [email protected]
Main duties of the job
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Support the General Manager in achieving all performance targets, developing and implementing sustainable improvements in collaboration with clinical and managerial teams across the organisation.
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Lead on the operational delivery of services, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and high-quality patient care.
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Drive and manage change initiatives to enhance service provision and meet evolving patient and system needs.
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Influence strategic development within the MSK & Therapies portfolio, working closely with the Clinical Director, General Manager, and Deputy Director of Nursing.
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Take responsibility for ensuring the CSU meets all local and national performance objectives and standards.
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Oversee the management of key resources—including staff, estates, and budgets—as delegated by the General Manager.
Working for our organisation
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to work with minimal supervision and have significant autonomy in the delivery of the above and be responsible for his/her professional actions.
The post holder will hold sole responsibility for a range of duties and services, organising their own workload and working within established policies, procedures and guidelines, as agreed with the General Manager.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in a healthcare environment
- Proven track record of achieving set targets.
- Experience and understanding of the modernisation agenda and the opportunities for redesigning services.
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of current issues/themes affecting the NHS locally and nationally
- Experience of managing organisational change
- Experience in report writing and delivering presentations, to formal presentations.
- Experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues.
- Budget management experience, including reducing costs/ efficiency gains, monitoring and determining corrective action.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working across networks, with wide ranging stakeholders.
- Experience of best practice process improvement techniques across a range of sectors.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of staff/managers/clinicians and external stakeholders
- The ability to deal with complex issues in a methodical and logical approach
- Ability to work pro-actively and cooperatively with senior management and clinical staff
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of recommendations from Francis, Keogh and other patient experience and quality of care directives and measures.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree and/or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Master’s level degree or equivalent qualification or knowledge/experience
- Project management experience, Prince 2 or other project management qualification
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
- Tom White
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07969962800
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