Operational Manager Paediatrics
| Posting date: | 03 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 5BE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9279-25-1668 |
Summary
Use leadership and influencing skills to enthuse, engage and maintain effective two way channels of communication within the service area and to involve individuals and teams within service areas of responsibility to ensure delivery of relevant targets. Responsible for managing, coordinating and addressing escalations for urgent imaging requests as and when required Establish lines of communication with other colleagues in the Trust and wider healthcare community, to ensure that services are integrated and opportunities for improvements are maximised. Ensure that good practice is identified and shared within the Division and wider organisation where appropriate. Using the highest degree of motivational and negotiating skills, ensure an atmosphere of collaboration across the service area to deliver a programme of continuous improvement in a challenging and demanding environment. Develop political judgment and astuteness in understanding and working with policy and diverse interest groups, and judgement in knowing when to escalate upwards, interpreting and implementing changes to respond to policy developments. Analyse and communicate highly complex verbal and written data to relevant stakeholders (internal and external), ensuring all information concerning performance in all areas is communicated and understood and managed confidentially where appropriate. Negotiate with others to reach a decision/conclusion to complex problems and to use appropriate influencing skills with supporting departments to ensure the needs of the service are met. Challenge internal and external parties where necessary to overcome barriers to change and understanding and to ensure that learning is shared and that risks are mitigated and reduced. Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments at all levels. Respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms. Attend, lead and participate in departmental meetings. Demonstrate empathy, compassion and diplomacy to communicate effectively with patients and relatives to resolve issues that may arise