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Service Manager | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 05 June 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 05 July 2025
Location: Oxford, OX3 7LD
Company: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 7225558/321-MRC-7225558-B7

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Summary


An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Specialist Medicine Directorate as the service manager for the Oxford Centre for Genomic Medicine.



The Service Manager, the Clinical Lead and Lead Genetic Counsellors (Service Management Team), will work in conjunction with the Directorate Management Team across organisational boundaries to ensure appropriate services are in place and to deliver national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards.

TheService Manageris responsible for working with the Service Management Team to ensure the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the Service, line managing staff and delivering quality, performance and financial plans, and achieving service improvements.

The post-holder is a critical member of the Service Management Team and will develop and implement service plans for the Service and Directorate and make a positive contribution to delivery of health care across the local health community.

· Service Delivery and development - strategic planning, resource management, delivery of national standards & a focus on quality productivity.

· Business planning and business cases, budget management, delivery of the cost improvement programme and management of appropriate SLA's.

· Deliver and monitor performance against standards, monitoring of activity and forecasting, continuous improvement of patient pathways.

·To lead, manage, motivate and develop staff within the Service, to maintain the highest level of staff morale and to create a climate characterised by high standards of openness in line with the Trust values

· Ensure direct and indirect staff line-management using HR policies and procedures within the Trust

· Ensure training and development needs of staff are identified

· Ensure the contributions and perspectives of all staff groups are heard, valued and influence management decision making

· Develop local workforce plans, employee engagement and workforce productivity plans to ensure delivery of the Trust’s Workforce Effectiveness Strategy

· Utilise workforce efficiently and effectively to ensure the structure and skill mix reflects the activity demands and implement skill mix.

· Organise and carry out recruitment

· Promote equal opportunities for staff and patients

· Project Management

· Quality, Clinical Governance and Risk Management

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.



The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.



Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

















Please see attached job description and person specification document for further information and details about this vacancy.


This advert closes on Thursday 19 Jun 2025

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