About this role
Job summary
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are recruiting a Care Group Manager to join their passionate team.
Main duties of the job
The Care Group Manager with the Senior Matron is expected to support the Care Group Director to deliver the effective integrated clinical, operation and financial performance of the Care Group.
This role is responsible for ensuring national and local access targets are achieved, along with ensuring all aspects of people, performance and financial objectives are delivered as per the Care Group and Trust business plan. The Care Group Manager will provide strong leadership at a Care Group level, ensuring that there are appropriate systems and processes in place to deliver objectives and drive forward the service to improve the operational effectiveness of the Care Group.
To enable them to execute this responsibility the post holder is expected to provide proactive and visible leadership. Leadership will span four key areas; service leadership, people and personal leadership, quality leadership and collaborative leadership.
All senior leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and, when necessary, to take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.
About us
At Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care.
We are here for our local population of about 675,000 residents across Portsmouth and south east Hampshire and care for many people beyond.
Job description Job responsibilities
With the Care Group Director and the Senior Matron, provide leadership to the Care Group and contribute to developing the strategic direction of the Division. Be accountable for the operational management of the Care Group and understand Divisional responsibility for the delivery of specific responsibilities (as agreed). Take shared corporate responsibility for the financial performance of the Division, including the achievement of financial targets, balancing the potentially conflicting demands of budgetary requirements and clinical standards. Ensure that there is Care Group level commitment to develop plans to move the Trust to 7/7 working. With the Care Group Director, report to the monthly performance review on Care Group performance. Represent the Care Group at local levels, developing partnerships, sharing best practice and integrating this knowledge within the Trust. Participate in the on-call rota for the Trust and be available for weekend working when required Set an example to other staff through own personal behaviours Provide effective and visible leadership and direction at all times in the operation and delivery of all services with the Care Group, including timely delivery of national and local access targets and objectives. Keep the Care Group Director and Divisional Operations Director abreast of relevant day to day matters relating to services and issues where there are areas of challenge/concern. Ensure full compliance with the Trusts Assurance Framework and any related standards including assurance on all corporate and clinical risks. Work with the Care Group Director, Senior Matron and care group teams to secure clinical engagement in the day to day activities of the Trust, and in performance improvements and service developments, working with the leads in other Care Groups where appropriate. Promote innovation and quality improvement to ensure best-practice services for patients and positive working experience for staff Ensure that business development opportunities for the delivery of patient services are explored, agreed and implemented. Ensure that the Care Group structure is fit for purpose to deliver Divisional and Trust requirements. Support the Business Managers that sit within the Speciality Groups in the delivery of their specialty access standards and the delivery of the local business plan. With the Care Group Director, lead the Care Group annual budget setting process and delivery of savings targets.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification/experience Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent Evidence of continuing professional development including management studies to masters level or above or equivalent experience
Experience Essential
Significant experience working on both strategic and operational matters. Significant NHS/Public sector experience and knowledge and understanding of the NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating and developing multi-disciplinary teams as highly effective people manager Proven experience of effective performance and budgetary management and control including achieving annual targets on a regular basis for a large group of clinical specialties Proven success in business planning and in the development of business casesExperience of leadership of complex operational change/project management while also developing and maintaining high standards of quality Strong and effective leadership and people management skills Strong influencing, persuasion and negotiating skills Highly developed verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings Ability to ensure patient safety by assessing and managing risks associated with service developments Ability to work with and through others Ability to perform well under pressure and manage unpredictable workload with conflicting priorities Quality focused with an innovative approach and ability to solve complex problems Ability to develop effect networks and work collaboratively with internal external partners Ability to critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information Personal Resilience Able to participate in on-call rota as required. Tenacity: demonstrates high levels of self-belief, drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through. Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovative solutions. Excellent judgement. Ability to achieve consistently good results in an inclusive and collaborative manner. Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment. Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables. Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance). High degree of political awareness. Displays innovative and lateral thinking. Prepared to work totally flexibly. High degree of self-awareness. Ability to maintain confidence, at all times. High levels of personal integrity and loyalty. Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions. Ability to broad scan to keep abreast of developments in the Health Care sector. Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Address Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham
Portsmouth
PO6 3LY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)