Job summary
- Main area
- Acute and Urgent Care Directorate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (12 months fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-AUC-6450361
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harplands Hospital
- Town
- Stoke on Trent
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Service Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Service Manager (Band 8A) for the Acute & Urgent Care Directorate – 12 - Fixed Term Position:
Do you want to be part of an innovative and collaborative Senior Leadership Team? The Acute & Urgent Care Directorate are looking for internal applicants for the Service Manager post for the Crisis Care Service Line. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to develop their leadership skills and drive some exciting developments within a complex and fast-paced environment.
The wider Leadership Team will support you to ensure we continue to maintain high quality, patient focused services in line with our national and locally agreed targets.
The right candidates will have leadership and managerial responsibility for the ‘day to day’ needs of the service within their portfolio, they will contribute to service improvements and business opportunities and work with varying stakeholders to support and develop these.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the operational, performance and business management of their delegated service areas. The post holder will work under the direction and line management of the Associate Director, with a secondary reporting line to the Clinical Director
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the operational, performance and business management of their delegated service areas.
The post holder will work under the direction and line management of the Associate Director, with a secondary reporting line to the Clinical Director
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving
In return we offer;
A competitive progressive salary
We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)
Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts
Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression
Excellent pension scheme available
27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)
Free parking
Wellbeing initiatives in place for staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Under direction from the Associate Director provide support to the Clinical Director in developing and implementing long term service strategy and policies within the Directorate, including annual, three year and five year business plans that fully reflect the direction and service needs of the Trust. These must be in line with corporate strategies of stakeholders and link directly to relevant legislation as well as national and local healthcare guidance and initiatives.
Responsible for the interpretation and implementation of broad policies and NHS guidance, contribute to all relevant corporate policies and strategy, developing services locally in line with them.
Coordinate service objectives ensuring relevance to local and national priorities.
Contribute to Directorate business plans – the development of appropriate operational, financial, market assessment and workforce plans for service areas with the appropriate involvement of managers, clinicians and the wider workforce.
Involve service users and carers in the development and planning of services.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Masters degree or equivalent experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Extensive, proven experience in working in an NHS environment, with significant experience of team/area management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Willis
- Job title
- Senior Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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