About this role
Job summary
INTERNAL APPLICANST ONLY
This is an exciting secondment opportunity for the right candidate. We are looking for an experienced and dynamic operational manager to provide support to our Integrated care division at Wye Valley Trust. The division comprises of three community hospitals and a number of integrated community services. As the Associate General Manager, you will work across multiple sites and provide support to an established management team and clinical leads to ensure we deliver the transformational work currently underway ensuring we provide the best possible care for our patients.
This is a new and exciting role to help shape our services and will require a dynamic individual who enjoys working with a variety of different roles from different providers to support our One Herefordshire ethos.
The successful candidate will work across multiple sites and will work alongside the Deputy Operational Director, General Manager and Community Matrons. This post would be suitable for clinical and non clinical applicants who are able to work at strategic level to support our services within the Integrated Care Division.
Main duties of the job
Managerial Responsibilities for this role include:o To provide clear leadership, ensuring that all staff areas are appropriately managed and developed and that they are efficient, effective, engaged and motivated.o Develop and maintain a culture of quality, safety and financial control amongst clinical and non-clinical staff taking collective and individual action when required.o Effectively and sensitively analyse and communicate highly complexand/or contentiousinformation to the multi-disciplinary team, gaining their co-operation.o To deliver the service objectives in line with commissioned activity, budgeted income andfinancial frameworks, demonstrating continuous improvement in quality standards.o Chair and lead meeting with areas of responsibility associated with performance and developments.o Work closely with the General Manager and Associate Chief Operating Officer on the review and updates to the relevant policies and changes in government directives.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for a full list of duties for this role.
Person Specification
Essential
- Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
essential
- evidence of change undertaken to evidence cost benefits
- Understanding of KPIs and key targets for integrated care division
- effective communication with key stakeholders to drive change
- well developed training and instructional skills
- Demonstrable understanding of NHS Emergency planning and risk management frameworks
- Evidence of sound budgetary management experience
- Evidence of developing and producing business plans/cases
- Extensive experience in general and operational NHS management to include management of multidisciplinary group of staff
Desirable
- Able to provide examples of capacity and demand in community services
- understanding of ten year Neighbourhood plan
- experience of patient flow and impact on wider system
Essential
- evidence of change undertaken to reduce costs
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve patient experience
- Understanding of capacity and demand
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Hereford county hospital
Stonebow road
Hereford
HR12BN
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)