The Assistant Divisional Manager has a wide range of responsibilities for ensuring the effective development and operation of the Division's services within the Emergency and Urgent Care and is one of three members of the directorate leadership triumvirate, working closely with the Matron and Divisional Director/Clinical Director.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder is responsible for effective operational management leadership, expertise, and support for a number of key areas within the Division ensuring the delivery of high quality, safe and effective patient services within the resources available.
This will include playing a key role in identifying opportunities for clinical and administrative innovation and modernisation, ensuring the delivery of all operational performance and strategic objectives specifically the Trust waiting list (RTT), financial, HR management, Health and Safety management, risk, clinical & quality governance.
Job responsibilities
Be accountable for the delivery of services provided by the Division within available resources. Actively promote and develop new ways of working: continually review services and work with colleagues to redesign services to meet patient needs and enable the Division to achieve objectives. Identify and address service pressures, using own judgement to respond and deal with a range of routine and urgent situations and developments. This will require the planning, formulation, monitoring and review of action plans, policies and strategies. Be responsible and accountable for the formulation of new service developments and initiatives, including the preparation of bids and business cases. Monitor Division activity levels, ensuring that activity, income and NHS plan targets are achieved by identification of areas where improvement is needed and putting in place realisable plans. Work with commissioning colleagues to ensure that services are appropriately funded. This will include the analysis of services, including statistics, activity performance, audit, the use of confidential patient data and report-writing. Lead and participate in ad hoc project work as and when required. Project manage significant service transformation and change projects to deliver efficiency and quality improvement. Work with other members of the operational team across the Trust as required assisting with operational patient flow on a day to day basis. Work with colleagues from every discipline and at all levels across the Division to improve service efficiency and patient experience. Ensure delivery of Trust and statutory responsibilities within the financial resources available. Participate in the Trust senior manager on-call rota. Deputise for & exercise the delegated authority of the Divisional Manager as required across the full range of their responsibilities. Represent the Division at Trust meetings and the Trust at external meetings as required.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
Graduate level qualification or equivalent experience Evidence of continued professional development within healthcare management
Desirable
Postgraduate management qualification
Experience
Essential
Previous proven operational management experience in the NHS or similar environment Evidence of financial management Evidence of leading change programmes/service developments Evidence of leading and developing teams Experience/understanding of health and safety, risk management and clinical governance
Desirable
Business planning experience
Skills
Essential
Able to demonstrate organisational and prioritisation skills to achieve goals of the department and organisation Data analysis skills Presentation and communication skills
Employer details
Employer name
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
162 City Road
London
EC1V 2PD
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