Band 8c - Bank Care Group ManagerNHS

Job summary

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are recruiting a Care Group Manager to join their passionate team.

Main duties of the job

The Care Group Manager with the Senior Matron is expected to support the Care Group Director to deliver the effective integrated clinical, operation and financial performance of the Care Group.

This role is responsible for ensuring national and local access targets are achieved, along with ensuring all aspects of people, performance and financial objectives are delivered as per the Care Group and Trust business plan. The Care Group Manager will provide strong leadership at a Care Group level, ensuring that there are appropriate systems and processes in place to deliver objectives and drive forward the service to improve the operational effectiveness of the Care Group.

To enable them to execute this responsibility the post holder is expected to provide proactive and visible leadership. Leadership will span four key areas; service leadership, people and personal leadership, quality leadership and collaborative leadership.

All senior leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and, when necessary, to take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.

Job description

• With the Care Group Director and the Senior Matron, provide leadership to the Care Group and contribute to developing the strategic direction of the Division.
• Be accountable for the operational management of the Care Group and understand Divisional responsibility for the delivery of specific responsibilities (as agreed).
• Take shared corporate responsibility for the financial performance of the Division, including the achievement of financial targets, balancing the potentially conflicting demands of budgetary requirements and clinical standards.
• Ensure that there is Care Group level commitment to develop plans to move the Trust to 7/7 working.
• With the Care Group Director, report to the monthly performance review on Care Group performance.
• Represent the Care Group at local levels, developing partnerships, sharing best practice and integrating this knowledge within the Trust.
• Participate in the on-call rota for the Trust and be available for weekend working when required
• Set an example to other staff through own personal behaviours
• Provide effective and visible leadership and direction at all times in the operation and delivery of all services with the Care Group, including timely delivery of national and local access targets and objectives.
• Keep the Care Group Director and Divisional Operations Director abreast of relevant day to day matters relating to services and issues where there are areas of challenge/concern.
• Ensure full compliance with the Trusts Assurance Framework and any related standards including assurance on all corporate and clinical risks.
• Work with the Care Group Director, Senior Matron and care group teams to secure clinical engagement in the day to day activities of the Trust, and in performance improvements and service developments, working with the leads in other Care Groups where appropriate.
• Promote innovation and quality improvement to ensure best-practice services for patients and positive working experience for staff
• Ensure that business development opportunities for the delivery of patient services are explored, agreed and implemented.
• Ensure that the Care Group structure is fit for purpose to deliver Divisional and Trust requirements.
• Support the Business Managers that sit within the Speciality Groups in the delivery of their specialty access standards and the delivery of the local business plan.
• With the Care Group Director, lead the Care Group annual budget setting process and delivery of savings targets.

About us

At Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care.

We are here for our local population of about 675,000 residents across Portsmouth and south east Hampshire and care for many people beyond.