Job Description
Main area: Acute Directorate
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Secondment: 12 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (will be part of the on-call rota)
Job ref: 380-AC0602
Site: Priority House
Town: Maidstone
Salary: £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/09/2024 23:59
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good.
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offers a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an inspirational leader to join our leadership team in our Trust wide Acute Directorate on a 1 year secondment or fixed term contract.
This role is fundamental in achieving success through our improvement journey and needs someone who is skilled at building and sustaining internal and external relationships with key stakeholders and strategic partners.
The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with the professional heads and the Deputy Service Director and Matrons to provide demonstrable assurance that the quality of the clinical services including patient safety, patient satisfaction, and clinical outcomes meet the required high standards. General Managers will have a portfolio of services that they are responsible for so will need to understand the ongoing transformation work that is currently being implemented along with a genuine interest in performance so that they can support the Teams in working towards the agreed Key Performance Indicators.
Working with the Senior Management Team, and reporting to the Service Director, they will ensure that services are fit for purpose and that the inpatient wards they are responsible for are well managed with motivated staff delivering excellent care to patients and working efficiently with the support of the Matrons. They will need to be visible providing line management leadership to Matrons to ensure excellent clinical outcomes and good levels of engagement.
Main duties of the job
General Managers are responsible for the overall management of a range of nominated services within the Directorate. Working closely with colleagues in all other relevant teams will ensure excellent clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. The post-holder will be expected to work as part of the Senior Leadership Team with other General Managers, the Deputy Director, the Head of Nursing & Quality, the Allied Health Professional Lead, the Lead Psychologist, and Clinical and Service Directors.
The post-holder will also have a key role in liaising with and supporting Local Care Partnerships in the integration agenda.
Person specification
Education
- First Degree.
- Evidence of continuing professional development to Master’s level or equivalent.
- Evidence of professional development in Leadership/Management.
Experience
- Significant experience of managing clinical health and/or social care services.
- Experience of working successfully in managing and coordinating a range of complex, multidisciplinary clinical services.
- Experience of change management and workforce redesign.
- Experience of performance management of service delivery, staff, and processes to ensure local and national targets are consistently achieved.
Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of performance management methods/procedures.
- Able to set objective measurements and develop monitoring systems to inform the organisation.
- Able to lead and generate a clear sense of direction for services.
- Able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to ensuring that services meet the needs of services users and their carers and are delivered with multi-cultural sensitivity.
Personal Qualities
- Able to motivate and enthuse staff at all levels, improve confidence, and contain anxiety.
- Able to influence, persuade, and negotiate.
- Able to express complex issues, both verbally and in writing for a range of audiences.
Your employer pays 20.6% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time.
After 5 years NHS service: 29 days full time or pro rata if part time.
After 10 years NHS service: 33 days full time or pro rata if part time.
Plus bank holidays, that’s up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
Medical staff have national Terms and Conditions. Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave dependant on length of NHS service.
Other paid/unpaid leave can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.
Non-paid leave for career breaks.
Staff Support KMPT offers a face-to-face counselling service for any issues not just work-related problems.
NHS discounts and shopping vouchers Staff can sign up for Red Guava, PS discounts, and Health Service Discounts to receive a variety of discounts in travel, fashion, technology, mobile phone contracts, food and drink, days out, etc.
Learning and Development opportunities In addition to the mandatory subjects there are a number of leadership, management, and staff topic areas, including coaching and mentoring.
Induction KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff and this includes a comprehensive Induction programme. The programme's duration depends on role and can be from 2 days to 4 weeks (not always consecutive days).
The Induction programme will provide an excellent opportunity for new staff to meet and engage with KMPT’s subject specialists and include the required training.
The programme may involve some travel to the various training venues across Kent and Medway, the main ones being Canterbury, Maidstone, and Dartford.
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