Divisional Director

2 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We are seeking a passionate, inspired leader to thrive and drive improvements within our paediatric services. The Divisional Director for Paediatric Critical Care, Anaesthetics & Complex Medicine at RMCH MCS is a demanding but extremely rewarding role. We are looking for an individual with the tenacity and determination to succeed at every level.

As Divisional Director, you will role model a compassionate style of leadership which promotes empowerment and ensures that decision-making is at appropriate levels.

Using your management expertise, you will support the Director of Operations, working closely with the senior divisional leadership team, to achieve national operational performance targets, good financial and activity management, whilst keeping a focus on continual improvement and quality of care within the services we offer. Furthermore, you will provide a positive contribution to the provision of health services across MFT and the local health and social care economy.

You will work in partnership with the RMCH Senior Leadership Team, Divisional Senior Leadership Team and partners across GM, Northwest, the Children's Hospital Alliance and NHSE, to deliver our ambitious strategic plans and objectives.

Main duties of the job

The Divisional Director is responsible to the Director of Operations for the direct delivery of all patient services within the Paediatric Critical Care, Anaesthetics & Complex Medicine Division, based within the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. This involves ensuring that all operational performance targets, including waiting lists, finance, the quality of services to patients and improving services towards best practice standards within available income are achieved.

The Division of Paediatric Critical Care comprises of three Directorates, Paediatric Critical Care & Anaesthetics and Complex Medicine, which includes Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Leukaemia, Oncology & Haematology Services.

The postholder will work closely with the Division's Clinical Director and Lead Nurse, Human Resources and Finance leads under the direction of the Director of Operations and advice and support from the other RMCH Senior Leadership Directors, to achieve the MFT/RMCH strategic aims and objectives. The postholder will be expected to make a positive contribution to the provision of health services across the Group and the local health and social care economy.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £ & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at .

Were looking forward to hearing from you

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Master's degree and Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and experience in management. Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

Preferably in a health care subject

Experience

Essential

Successful track record and relevant experience as a lead manager within an NHS organisation managing clinical services Demonstrate evidence of sound financial/staff management. Evidence of effectively managing change.

Desirable

Experience within an acute hospital setting.

Knowledge

Essential

Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population.

Values

Essential

A strong commitment to the values of MFT

Other

Essential

Requirement to be on call rota.

Skills

Essential

Political astuteness, understanding what can and cannot be delivered at Lead level. A proven ability to obtain and consistently achieve results and targets. Highly developed Leadership skills with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and teams. The ability to shape the future and bring staff with you. Proven ability to deal with wide range of data and information and take appropriate decisions from it. A proven ability to come up with flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems. Excellent collaborative working skills and able to build strong relationships with clinical Leaders and professional staff groups and a proven ability to influence and change those groups. Effective and strategic influencing skills and all levels in the organisation including influencing Trust Board. Proven ability of Leading change through people. A management style that empowers others and evidence of successfully driving a learning coaching culture for all staff in your area of control. Holding to account others to ensure they deliver to their targets and dealing effectively with performance. A deep motivation to drive and improve performance in the service and in others. The confidence to succeed and overcome individual and organisational obstacles. Being able to manage own emotions and be resilient in a range of complex and demanding situations. A strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards in Leadership.

Desirable

Experience of partnership Working. Evidence of playing a major role in an organisational change programme. Formal project management training. Presentational/ media experience.

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