Job summary
- Main area
- General Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-6336939
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
General manager - Medical Director's Unit (Band 8b)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
This role supports the corporate portfolio of the Executive Medical Director, with specific oversight of Undergraduate and Post Graduate Education and training, resuscitation, library services, clinical coding, and medical professional priorities.
The General Manager for the Medical Director’s Unit will provide strategic, operational, workforce, and financial leadership across multiple departments, as described above, to ensure the highest standards of medical education and professional support are delivered within the organisation. Working in partnership with the wider MDU senior leadership team, they will be responsible for the development and delivery of key service and quality targets, including those set by the Executive Medical Director. They will have key relationships with NHS England's Workforce, Training and Education directorate, local universities, and partner organisations.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide high level management support for the Executive Medical Director and associated Medical Director’s Unit roles, e.g. Responsible Officer, Director of Medical Education, Deputy Medical Directors.
2. Deputise for the above roles as appropriate and when commensurate with the role.
3. Engage Trust colleagues, external partners, and other stakeholders across health, regulatory, and education systems with the work of the MDU. Foster a collaborative working environment within and externally to the MDU.
4. Develop, implement, and oversee the strategic and operational plans of the MDU ensuring alignment with the overall trust strategy.
5. Develop, implement, and review policies for cross-trust working, ensuring consistent standards and best practices across partner organizations.
6. Promote a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and professionalism within the organisation.
7. Ensure the Trust provides a comprehensive evidence based medical education and resuscitation service.
8. Undertake the line management for team managers including recruitment, appraisal, and performance management of them and, where appropriate, their teams.
9. Hold budgetary responsibility for multiple cost centres and NHSE WTE (HEE) income streams.
- Continued on attached Job description.
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
- • Evidence of successful management at agenda for change band 8 and above
- • Experience of case manager or case investigation, such as MHPS or serious incidents
- • Budgetary management
- • Understanding of current NHS policy and guidelines relating to education and training of undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
Desirable criteria
- • Detailed knowledge of Maintaining High Professional Standards
- • Specific leadership or management qualification at level 7 such as ILM
- • Experience as a Case Manager/ Investigator for MHPS
- • Experience of working in a Chief Medical Officer/ Medical Director management support function
Skills
Essential criteria
- Facilitation and presentation skills
- • Ability to prepare written reports to Board committees and Boards of Directors
Desirable criteria
- Resuscitation officer experience based on training
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
- David Crampsey
- Job title
- Dep Chief Executive and Executive Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294187
- Additional information
Julie O’Riordan
01535 294031
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