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Location

Rawtenstall, Lancashire | United Kingdom

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Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the IMPReS (Integrated MSK, Pain and Rheumatology) and Clinical Haematology Directorate for a Deputy Directorate Manager to cover for sickness absence. We are looking for a self-motivated and detail orientated individual to support the Directorate Lead in managing the operational performance of the directorate as a whole and ensuring key targets are met.

The successful candidate will need to be motivated, hard-working and have a can-do attitude. You will display excellent organisational and communication skills, and demonstrate strong leadership qualities to be able to effectively support the team.

You will work as part of the directorate management team including working closely with senior clinicians and the directorate leadership team to operationally support the directorate. This will involve working efficiently to manage local and National Targets, including Referral to Treatment (RTT) and restoration activity targets, as well supporting the directorate and wider divisional team to deliver clinical activity and develop services.

To provide support to the clinical and managerial leadership of the directorate, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organisational success are achieved. To effectively manage day to day operational duties whilst ensuring delivery of activity, business and performance plans.

Together with the Directorate, the post holder will develop and assist with the implementation of both short and long term business and transformation plans to meet local, regional and national agendas. Deliver SAFE, PERSONAL and EFFECTIVE care as part of a partnership between managerial and clinical staff.Take a leading role in ensuring robust and accurate data validation within the Directorate, managing by exception.Hold staff, within your sphere of responsibility, to account for their actions through a performance management approach, centred on good appraisal management.

Promote and support delivery of national and local healthcare targets as one of the ways of raising healthcare standards.
You will be expected to support the Clinical Leads and Directorate Lead to enable them to undertake a full range of management activities in an acute teaching trust setting, both operationally focused and strategically directed, ensuring quality of services to patients, visitors and staff.
Support the Directorate Lead to maintain effective capacity and operational planning.

The successful candidate must demonstrate clear commitment to providing a safe, personal and effective service for its users. We encourage applications from driven individuals, who demonstrate a passion for promoting a healthy team culture and learning environment.

All of our work is underpinned by our five key values at ELHT: · Put patients first · Respect the individual · Act with integrity · Serve the community · Promote positive change. If you are looking for a new and exciting challenge, then this role is for you!
Engage clinical and non-clinical staff in the business of the Trust and Directorate, building processes and systems around patient needs, ensuring delivery of excellent healthcare.
Support the Directorate Lead to maintain Directorate focus and commitment to performance standards at all times.
Take a leading role in ensuring robust and accurate data validation within the Directorate, managing by exception.
Manage projects to successful outcomes.
Embed a service improvement focus into everyday practice.
Ensure knowledge transfer, both within the Directorate and across the Division sequentially in terms of on-going knowledge management systems.

Hold staff, within your sphere of responsibility, to account for their actions through a performance management approach, centred on good appraisal management.
Build processes around patients and work with patients as partners in the delivery of excellent healthcare.
In the interests of patient care, support the principle of treatment as close to the patient’s home as possible.
Ensure that decisions taken are fully informed and properly balanced, taking account of collective as well as individual needs and the requirement to work within available resources escalating areas of concern to your immediate line manager.
Promote and support delivery of national and local healthcare targets as one of the ways of raising healthcare standards.
Support the Directorate Lead in writing Business Plans.
Support the Clinical Leads and Directorate Lead to enable them to undertake a full range of management activities in an acute teaching trust setting, both operationally focused and strategically directed, ensuring quality of services to patients, visitors and staff
Support the Directorate Lead to maintain effective management capacity and operational planning.
At all times minimise boundaries between services, both within and outside the Directorate.
Provide leadership and management to identified administrative and clerical staff within the sphere of management responsibility. Ensure all staff accountable to you have the skills and competencies to undertake their roles. To ensure all staff have an annual appraisal and Personal Development Review. To then feed the results of PDPs into Divisional HR to allow annual training plan completion.
Ensure that all Trust policies are fully adhered to by all staff.
Take a leading role in ensuring robust and accurate data validation with the Directorate, managing by exception.

Take a leading role in the effective management of medical/clinical rotas and off duty’s. Ensuring adherence to annual leave and study leave policy within the Directorate.
Develop and maintain close working relationships with centralised corporate functions that may have interfaces with the Directorate.
Deputising for appropriate level of duties in the absence of the Performance and Quality Manager
Attend key meetings as identified both at directorate and divisional level.
Produce formal reports, undertaking complex information analysis as required
Plan, support and make personal and professional contributions to the strategic management of the Directorate within the Division to achieve quality services offering best value for money.
Support the Directorate Lead in ensuring the efficient and effective management of all resources within the Directorate; ensuring the continuous development and delivery of a high quality, patient focused services.
To be actively involved in the development of the Directorate annual business plan and to then ensure delivery of operational aspects of this plan via robust systems and processes.
To support and encourage redesign of services, and embed new ways of working which support patient care aims.
Maintain active involvement in planning, marketing and commissioning of services.
Ensure patient involvement in the evaluation and redesign of services.
Establish links with external agencies that will ensure the continued development of new ways of working and collaboration on key tasks within the health economy

This advert closes on Monday 26 Feb 2024

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