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Assistant Directorate Manager
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
362-A-24-6579820
Employer
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kingsgate House
Town
stockport
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/10/2024 23:59

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Assistant Directorate manager

Band 7

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.

Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.

Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise:  ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.

In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.

Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment

As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service).  If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.

Our Values:

We Care

About each other

Our patients and their families

The communities we serve

The environment

We support them and deliver on their promises

We Respect

Each other

Our patients and their families

Our partners

We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return

We Listen to

Each other

Our patients and their families

Our partners

We act and learn from what we hear


 

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated experienced Operational Manager to support the Directorate Manager – Specialist Services within an exciting portfolio.

The Directorate houses an array of teams such as Urgent Community Response, Virtual Ward, Continence, Heart Failure, COPD and Diabetes Specialist Services in addition to our Advanced Clinical Practitioner Service.

The post will support the Directorate Manager and offer the successful individual an opportunity to utilise leadership skills within identified projects. It will offer the individual growth and development within a health care setting.

If you have energy and drive with a thirst for quality standards then we would like to hear from you.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Supporting the Directorate Manager in the operational delivery and performance management of Specialist Directorate national and local performance targets and objectives. Support the development and improvement of its clinical and administrative services. This will include specific responsibility and accountability for certain aspects of performance
  • Supporting service improvement through analysis of data and undertaking capacity and demand analysis of services to support delivery of targets for the Directorate and overall Division
  • Manage the Assistant Directorate Support Manager within Urgent Community response Service and support teams within  the Specialist Directorate.
  • Management of the Assistant Directorate Support manager and any other delegated management, ensuring service objectives are met by the specialty teams.
  • Planning to ensure that all elements of service provision are considered and organised to enable capacity to be maximised.  This requires a structured approach to ensure that short-falls are identified in advance to enable mitigating action in a timely and organised manner, and also flexibility to respond to changes in circumstances

Working for our organisation

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

 

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

 

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

 

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

 

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

 

Benefits we offer to you:

 

•  Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

  NHS pension scheme membership

•  Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further

  NHS Staff discounts

  Cycle to work scheme

•  Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt

•  Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find the attached job description & person specification for more information for the post.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

 If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.

 

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Recognised post-graduate management qualification or equivalent experience.
  • • Evidence of sound intellectual ability and ongoing personal development
Desirable criteria
  • • Recognised post-graduate management qualification or equivalent experience.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of dealing with difficult operational issues.
  • • Understands and is able to interpret national policy in relation to performance targets and translate to the local level
  • • Up to date with relevant national guidance on NHS management issues

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
  • • Staff management experience
  • • Experience and commitment to quality, innovation, productivity and prevention.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise
  • • Handling sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy
  • • Excellent communication skills
  • • Well-developed analytical skills

Work Rekated Circumstances

Essential criteria
  • • Occupational Health Clearance

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lisa Lainton
Job title
Directorate manager - Specialist Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07760666370
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