Job summary
Employer heading
Specialty General Manager - Endoscopy & Bowel Cancer Screening
Band 8a
Job overview
The Surgery Division is advertising for a Specialty General Manager to lead the Endoscopy and Bowel Cancer Screening Service at NUH. The service spans across the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham Treatment Centre, Nottingham City Hospital and some Bowel Cancer Screening elements at Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Endoscopy and Bowel Cancer Screening are within the Digestive Diseases Directorate alongside Colorectal, Gastroenterology, HPB, Upper GI, Endocrine Surgery & General Surgery; building strong relationships and pathways across each of these teams is key to Endoscopy and Bowel Cancer Screening providing a successful service for patients.
This is an exciting time to join the service, with a recent £10million investment to develop a JAG compliant and tertiary cancer endoscopy unit at the QMC site later in 2024. The SGM will be heavily involved in this project, providing an excellent opportunity to shape the future of the service.
Main duties of the job
As SGM you will be responsible and accountable for the operational management and performance of the specialties, providing strong visible leadership in partnership with the Head of Service and Nursing Leads, driving through ambitious targets to continually improve operational and financial performance. This will be a high profile role and would suit a highly experienced service manager looking to develop into an SGM post or an existing SGM wanting to gain experience in another specialty.
Bowel Cancer Screening provides an opportunity to with NHSEngland and other hospitals and to be involved in writing business cases and bids for future expansion of the screening pathways.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Project management
- Business planning
- Complex change management
- MDT working
- People management
- Performance management
- Evidence of achieving healthcare/business targets
Desirable criteria
- 2 years service manager or equivalent experience
- experience in a role with similarities to endoscopy
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of other specialist management training to diploma level.
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to build successful teams and work with other teams well
- Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
- Ability to manage conflict
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Able to critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets
- Sensitive to clinical and political demands
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisation skills
- Proactive performance management approach
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rosalyn Ball
- Job title
- Directorate General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07595284894
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