Job summary
Employer heading
Managing Director
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
Royal Primary Care comprises of nine GP practices in Chesterfield, providing care for 50,000 patients, across three Primary Care Networks – but we are so much more – our mission is to improve the health of communities and reduce health inequalities with direct integration with community and hospital care, delivering huge benefits for our patients.
We’re looking for an extraordinary candidate to fill this unique role – not only becoming a key member of the leadership team with Royal Primary Care but also Chesterfield Royal Hospital (CRH) leadership group, as uniquely RPC is part of the NHS Trust.
Working with the RPC Clinical Director (currently out to advert) and RPC leadership team, you will have shared accountability for the leadership, management, and continuous improvement of RPC. You will ensure that our vision to be an exceptional provider of family medicine dedicated to our patients and community and our mission is delivered. This will include accountability for high-quality patient care and safety, the delivery of agreed performance and financial objectives, ensuring the delivery of RPC’s strategic priorities, and positively contributing to CRH’s overarching strategic priorities.
Main duties of the job
Our CARE Values are incredibly important to us: Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Encouragement. With these in mind through all your behaviours, you will oversee high quality patient care and safety, the delivery of agreed performance and financial objectives, and ensuring that RPC aligns, and positively contributes, to the Trust’s strategic aims and objectives.
As Managing Director, you will be accountable to the Chief Operating Officer at the Trust and will managerially lead the Clinical Director, Head of Operations, PCN Manager, Finance Partner and HR Partner – together, you will oversee 146 WTE colleagues. You will also lead programmes of work including working at Place level and PCNs to improve population health. You will be a natural collaborator; engaging and persuasive and you’ll understand how to work well within complex environments and political agendas.
This is an exciting time to join the Trust – we are starting to develop our new strategy and have recently launched a number of supporting and vital supportive pieces of work that are genuinely improving care, making a difference every day. We’re keen that you’d be a huge part of that! We are eager to hear from candidates who are as energised about these opportunities as we are!
If your ambition feels like to matches ours – to improve, to drive and for Chesterfield to go from strength to strength across all our metrics – then we look forward to hearing from you.
Working for our organisation
We are looking for people who will ensure that we continue to deliver our vision, mission and values through our Together as One strategy and Royal Primary Care strategy, and demonstrate our proud to CARE values. We have recently developed our expected leadership behaviours; our journey is one of continual improvement.
We have a history and place in our community, meaning we make a difference in people’s lives daily. We employ more than 5,000 colleagues across a Group Structure which involved Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Royal Primary Care and our wholly owned subsidiary, DSFS.
We value diversity and understand the strength in leveraging diverse backgrounds and experiences to create teams that are representative of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a fair and inclusive culture, where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from people who are currently underrepresented in our senior leadership team. These include people from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. This year we launched our anti-racism strategy and our approach is based on real action.
We prioritise health and wellbeing and have access to a free purpose-built fully-accessible Hub at CRH, supporting colleagues with 24/7 gym, classes, and access to psychological support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will have significant experience of working in a senior leadership and management role within primary care, with experience of leading service improvement projects, developing and maintaining high standards of quality.
They will have shared accountability for the leadership, management and improvement in Royal Primary Care.
Please refer to the Job Description for the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Please note this post is not on Agenda for Change.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Credible/significant experience of working in a senior leadership and management role within primary care.
- Experience of leading service improvement projects and complex organisational change, whilst developing and maintaining high standards of quality.
- Leadership level experience on issues related to quality governance, monitoring and standard setting, including risk management health safety.
- Corporate responsibility for policy implementation and service development across a range of specialist services.
- Evidence of appropriate relevant professional development.
- Financial management and business management skills including the ability to set and manage budgets on a corporate level.
- Demonstrable experience of successful business planning and development of robust business cases.
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge and understanding of primary care services, including the interface between PCN and system partners and delivery of specialist services.
- Understanding of the national and local factors impacting upon the planning and delivery of primary care services.
- Understanding of the financial and contractual management of primary care.
- Excellent and highly developed interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate and influence at all levels and across a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Experience of leading and coaching teams, including recruitment and disciplinary issues with the ability to motivate others to achieve organisational objectives.
- Effective negotiating, influencing and networking skills with a wide range of individuals and groups.
- Ability to work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate, both written and verbally, in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive.
- Be able to deal with sensitive and complex issues.
- Highly developed problem solving and analytical skills.
- Experience of conflict resolution and negotiation at corporate level.
- Ability to write and produce regular complex reports and formulate policy.
- Competent in the use of IT systems.
- Ability to oversee and interpret the performance targets of specialities.
- Manage highly complex and multi faceted problems.
- Financial management including budget management experience and delivery of cost improvement efficiencies.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucie Haye
- Job title
- Executive Assistant to Michelle Veitch
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 516449
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