Job vacancy: Managing Director, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Canterbury

Job summary

Main area: Senior Management
Grade: VSM
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 344-0753MD-QE-CCASS

Employer: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Trustwide
Town: Canterbury
Closing: 05/07/2024 09:00

Managing Director

VSM

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.

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Person specification

Knowledge Training and Experience

Essential criteria

Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
Member of a relevant professional Body

Desirable criteria

Qualification in management coaching or improvement

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context
Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media
Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments

Desirable criteria

Experience of being a member of a Board

Analytical

Essential criteria

Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives

Planning Skills

Essential criteria

Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget
Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management

Autonomy

Essential criteria

Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight deadlines
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues

Staff and patients from across East Kent Hospitals are the feature of the biggest NHS recruitment drive in its 70 year history. https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/work-here/

Filmed in William Harvey and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospitals, the ‘We are the NHS’ campaign highlights the extraordinary work that staff across EKHUFT do every single day. As one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a population of over one million people, EKHUFT was perfectly placed to demonstrate the care, cutting-edge treatments, research, innovations and life-saving operations that the campaign needed.

There are lots of great opportunities at East Kent Hospitals, where staff are caring and put patients first, innovation flourishes and you can develop your career. We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a new Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work,
there’s never been a better time to join us. To find out more about east Kent visit our website at. The Trust fully supports the SAS Doctors Charter and is committed to their development through its CPD Framework.

We’ll close this job advert once we’ve received sufficient applications which may be before the closing date so please apply as soon as possible. We only accept online applications. If you have any difficulty with this please contact our Resourcing Team on 01227 866450 who are happy to help.

We have a relocation policy for eligible candidates, parking available at Trust sites but we encourage other options, like car sharing or public transport.

The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information on how this can be managed alongside department expectations and requirements.

The ability to converse easily and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for all customer facing roles.

Most positions require a Disclosure and Barring check and will be exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Posts working regularly or unsupervised with children or vulnerable adults require an enhanced check.

Applicants for eligible roles requiring Tier 2 sponsorship must meet UK Visas and Immigration eligibility criteria.

We operate a no-smoking policy on all our sites and grounds.

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If you are applying via NHS Jobs your application will be sent to our recruitment system TRAC. All subsequent information will be generated from TRAC so you won’t be able to see the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs and we won’t be able to respond to e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to us transferring your application and details to our system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records. Good luck with your application, we’ll contact you via email so please check your junk/spam folders.