Deputy Directorate ManagerNHS

Job summary

Deputy Directorate Manager - Band 7 This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic person to join the Surgery, Women's and Children's Division at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The Deputy Directorate Manager will provide support to the Directorate Manager for Obstetrics and Gynaecology alongside other senior team members within the division. In connection with the team, they will provide operational leadership to ensure smooth running of the department on a daily basis, whilst ensuring compliance of local and national targets and engaging in service development projects.

Main duties of the job

Strong and clear leadership, supporting the Directorate Manager in ensuring staff are appropriately developed and are efficient, effective, engaged, and motivated.

Ensure that all aspects of specified performance and operations are appropriately monitored, evaluation and managed to optimise standards of care and deliver financial and performance requirements.

Support and lead on the development and monitoring of business cases and specific service level agreements with commissioners, internal departments and partner organisations.

Work in partnership and take delegated responsibility for management as appropriate, inclusive of operational performance, project management and service improvement.

Accountable for ensuring patient flows are appropriate and work collaboratively with site management to maximise capacity in a safe and effective manner

Deputise for the Directorate Manager as required.

Job description

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

About us

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.