Deputy Directorate Manager

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department, at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The role of the Deputy Directorate Manager will sit within Obstetrics & Gynaecology and will be responsible for the strategic and operational management working under the supervision of the Directorate Manager.

The role is ideal for someone who wishes to deliver improvement and the perfect development opportunity for an aspiring Directorate Manager who is keen to develop their career in operational management.

This role requires significant engagement and working in collaboration with a number of different stakeholders, including commissioners, acute, primary care, and mental health providers as well as the public, voluntary and community sector organisations.

The post holder is expected to provide visible leadership and promote high standards by modelling the values and behaviours expected of a senior manager in the NHS.

Main duties of the job

• Key member of the Directorate Leadership Team and responsible for agreed operational aspects of designated services including financial, activity and performance management.
• Support business planning, deputise for the Directorate Manager as required and contribute to governance and quality improvement within the service.
• Responsible for developing and implementing service improvement and redesign initiatives to support efficient delivery of key business and service objectives.
• Play a pivotal role in influencing, developing and sustaining key relationships with external stakeholders.

Working for our organization

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services include:

• Acute Care: Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care: Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services: Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. The inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital provides rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
• Specialist Regional Services: We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Person specification Values

• We are kind
• We are open
• We are inclusive

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level and/or equivalent level of qualification and/or equivalent experience
• Post graduate qualification in health service management and/or equivalent level of qualification and/or equivalent experience

Knowledge

• Current experience of complex operational management in a healthcare setting.
• A demonstrable capacity and capability for operational service management in an acute hospital environment or similarly complex organisation, including staff management, financial management and change management
• Comprehensive knowledge of planned care, referral to treatment (RTT) and cancer targets
• Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
• Well developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations
• Demonstrate highly effective, credible leadership experience within the acute hospital setting
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships

Skills

• Experience of data analysis, report writing and oral presentation of data
• Effective working with clinical teams and senior colleagues resulting in the successful introduction and management of change
• Demonstrating effective influencing skills to achieve desired results
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practice and workable solutions to address them
• Ability to deal with competing priorities through highly developed reasoning and prioritization skills
• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals.
• Ability to communicate confidently and assertively, both written form and verbally, formally and informally to a wide range of audiences, both internal and external to the trust
• Service improvement tools and project planning.
• Intermediate IT skills qualification in Microsoft Word and Excel processing

Other

• A strong sense of personal and team accountability
• Flexible with the demands of the role, possessing self-awareness and self-motivation

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

Certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.