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Job summary

Main area
Administration/Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 3 months (End date 31st of March)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-6786261
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Free Hospital
Town
Hampstead
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/11/2024 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 6 - Assistant Service Manager - Private Patients Unit

NHS AfC: Band 6

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

Are you a motivated individual looking to make a difference in the NHS? The Royal Free London’s Private Patients Unit is currently looking for a compassionate and organised Assistant Service Manager to lead our inpatients and admissions service. This post holder will be responsible for inpatient service delivery across all PPU sites.

The post holder will work with their administrative team to drive and deliver excellent person-centred care and customer service. They will take the lead in all aspects of delivery, including inpatient bookings, theatre slots and more. Working closely with the PPU Service Manager and Assistant Service Manager, they will ensure that effective management and delivery underpins the leadership of the services they manage. The post holder will help achieve the PPU strategy, working with compassion and enthusiasm to deliver for our consultants, patients, and staff.

The post holder will be supported by the senior leaders in the unit, who will support continuous professional development. This is a fantastic opportunity for people looking to take the next step in their career, whether coming from an NHS or a private background.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

For more information please follow linkhttps://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Royal Free World Class Values

  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values 

Education & Professional Qualifications 

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience 
  • Management Qualification 

Experience 

  • Significant demonstrable experience of working in the private healthcare sector or NHS PPUNHS in a middle management /supervisory/team leader position
  • To demonstrate a significant level of management in a customer service environment
  • Previous experience of line managing staff in a customer service/patient facing environment
  • To demonstrate evidence of service improvement

Skills and aptitudes 

  • Ability to manage performance/capability/ sickness
  • High level of organisational skills and ability to manage allocation of workload across individuals
  • Flexible / adaptable
  • Computer literate and strong working knowledge and professional proficiency in the use of: Outlook package – Power point, Excel, Microsoft Word as well as Access, Compucare, CERNER/CRIS/IRRIS/EPR/EDRM
  • Focused on leading an empowered team
  • Demonstrate the skills to continually improve the service
  • Deal effectively with any service specific issues that arise
  • Ability to deal with complaints in an appropriate manner
  • To implement new ways of working and document standard operating procedures
  • Ability to balance individual needs against service needs/delivery 
  • Ability to present information to an individual or group as appropriate 
  • Good understanding of wider NHS PPU relationships between GPs and other referrers; PMIs, consultants, etc
  • Understanding of the requirements regarding patient confidentiality
  • Understanding of best practice in customer service environments
  • Understanding of targets and initiatives relating to NHS PPUs
  • Understanding of Trust’s data quality requirements
  • Target setting and performance monitoring

Personal Qualities and Attributes 

  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
  • Attention to detail
  • Well organised and practical with a logical, analytical approach to work
  • Meticulous with excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work under pressure in a dynamic and changing environment
  • Flexible
  • Ability to work on own in pursuit of team objectives
  • Positive and motivated

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant demonstrable experience of working in the private healthcare sector or NHS PPUNHS in a middle management /supervisory/team leader position
  • To demonstrate a significant level of management in a customer service environment
  • Previous experience of line managing staff in a customer service/patient facing environment
  • To demonstrate evidence of service improvement

Skills and aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to manage performance/capability/ sickness
  • High level of organisational skills and ability to manage allocation of workload across individuals
  • Flexible / adaptable
  • Computer literate and experienced . Strong working knowledge and professional proficiency in the use of : Outlook package – Power point, Excel, Microsoft Word as well as Access, email, Internet Compuware CERNER CRIS IRRIS EPR EDRM
  • Focused on leading an empowered team
  • Demonstrate the skills to continually improve the service
  • Deal effectively with any service specific issues that arise
  • Ability to deal with complaints in an appropriate manner
  • To implement new ways of working and document standard operating procedures
  • Ability to balance individual needs against service needs/delivery
  • Ability to present information to an individual or group as appropriate
  • In depth knowledge of NHS CERNER, COMPUCARE, CRIS, IRRIS, EDRM and EPR administration systems
  • Good understanding of wider NHS PPU relationships between GPs and other referrers; PMIs, consultants..etc
  • Understanding of the requirements regarding patient confidentiality
  • Understanding of best practice in customer service environments
  • Understanding of targets and initiatives relating to NHS PPUs
  • Understanding of Trust’s data quality requirements
  • Target setting and performance monitoring

Personal Qualities & attributes

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
  • Attention to detail
  • Well organised and practical with a logical, analytical approach to work.
  • Meticulous with excellent attention to detail.
  • Ability to work under pressure in a dynamic and changing environment.
  • Flexible
  • Ability to work on own in pursuit of team objectives
  • Positive and motivated

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Nursing TimesApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident employerTimewise PartnerCare Quality Commission - Requires improvementEnei MemberArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mariama Sambou
Job title
Service Manager - PPU
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07773581758
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