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Deputy Directorate Manager Gastroenterology | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Job details
Posting date: 09 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £35,392 - £42,618 pa
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 08 June 2024
Location: Blackburn, BB2 3HH
Company: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6246179/435-MEC-142-24

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Summary


To provide support to the clinical and managerial leadership of MEC, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organisational success are achieved. To effectively manage day to day operational duties whilst ensuring delivery of activity, business and performance plans. Together with the Directorate the post holder will develop and assist with the implementation of both short and long term business and transformation plans to meet local, regional and national agendas.
Deliver SAFE, PERSONAL and EFFECTIVE care as part of a partnership between managerial and clinical staff. All aspects of the role will be conducted within a multi-disciplinary team philosophy.

Engage clinical and non-clinical staff in the business of the Trust and Directorate, building processes and systems around patient needs, ensuring delivery of excellent healthcare.


Support the Directorate Manager to maintain Directorate focus and commitment to performance standards at all times.


Take a leading role in ensuring robust and accurate data validation within the Directorate, managing by exception.


Manage projects to successful outcomes.


Embed a service improvement focus into everyday practice.


Ensure knowledge transfer, both within the Directorate and across the Division sequentially in terms of on-going knowledge management systems.


Hold staff, within your sphere of responsibility, to account for their actions through a performance management approach, centred on good appraisal management.

Build processes around patients and work with patients as partners in the delivery of excellent healthcare.


In the interests of patient care, support the principle of treatment as close to the patient’s home as possible.



The Medicine and Emergency Care division has offices at Royal Blackburn Hospital with activity taking place also at Burnley General Hospital and other peripheral sites across East Lancashire.

ELHT is a significant employer within East Lancashire and takes pride in providing safe, personal and effective health services to a population of over 600 000 people.

The Trust offers a range of benefits to staff and more details of these can be seen on the Trust website.

Ensure that decisions taken are fully informed and properly balanced, taking account of collective as well as individual needs and the requirement to work within available resources escalating areas of concern to your immediate line manager.


Promote and support delivery of national and local healthcare targets as one of the ways of raising healthcare standards.


Support the Directorate Manager in writing Business Plans.


Support the Clinical Director and Directorate Manager to enable them to undertake a full range of management activities in an acute teaching trust setting, both operationally focused and strategically directed, ensuring quality of services to patients, visitors and staff, including: Management of clinical governance, healthcare standards and risk o Support in dealing with patient concerns/complaints o Maximising operational and performance management standards o Optimising resource management o Planning, marketing and developing services

Support the Directorate Manager to maintain effective management capacity and operational planning.


At all times minimise boundaries between services, both within and outside the Directorate.


Regularly liaise with rota co-ordinators to support adequate medical staffing cover


This advert closes on Friday 17 May 2024

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