Assistant Directorate Manager

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Stockport is seeking an experienced Operational Manager to support the Directorate Manager in Trauma & Orthopaedics. The role involves managing teams, optimizing service provision, and ensuring performance targets are met. Ideal candidates will have management experience in healthcare and strong leadership skills. The position offers competitive benefits, including annual leave and NHS pension.

Benefits

27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS pension scheme membership

Salary sacrifice schemes

NHS Staff discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Salary finance options

Local financial advice from Stockport Credit Union

Qualifications

• Experience in management within a healthcare setting.
• Strong leadership and performance management skills.
• Ability to analyse data for service improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support operational delivery and performance management.
• Manage and support teams within the Directorate.
• Plan to optimize service provision and capacity.

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated experienced Operational Manager to support the Directorate Manager – Trauma & Orthopaedics within an exciting portfolio. The post will support the Directorate Manager and offer the successful individual an opportunity to utilise leadership skills within identified projects. It will offer the individual growth and development within a health care setting. If you have energy and drive with a thirst for quality standards then we would like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Directorate Manager in the operational delivery and performance management of National and local performance targets and objectives. Support the development and improvement of its clinical and administrative services. This will include specific responsibility and accountability for certain aspects of performance
• Supporting service improvement through analysis of data and undertaking capacity and demand analysis of services to support delivery of targets for the Directorate and overall Division
• Manage the Assistant Directorate Support Manager within the service and support teams within the Directorate.
• Management of the Assistant Directorate Support manager and any other delegated management, ensuring service objectives are met by the specialty teams.
• Planning to ensure that all elements of service provision are considered and organised to enable capacity to be maximised. This requires a structured approach to ensure that short-falls are identified in advance to enable mitigating action in a timely and organised manner, and also flexibility to respond to changes in circumstances

Diversity and inclusion

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

Flexible working

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jennifer Starr
Job title: Directorate Manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 0161 419 2088