Band 8b Operations Manager

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in London is looking for an operational manager for the Community Diagnostic Centre. The role involves overseeing operational staff, driving quality and safety standards, and managing budgets. Ideal candidates will have significant NHS management experience and strong leadership skills. This role promotes teamwork and patient-centered care, ensuring high-quality service delivery.

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing personal development.
• Significant management experience, in the NHS or equivalent.
• Demonstrates excellent negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational staff within the CDC.
• Provide senior management leadership in supporting the CDC's contribution.
• Develop appraisal, objective-setting, and performance development plans.

Skills

Leadership of a multidisciplinary team

Effective communication skills

Budgetary management skills

IT literate and analytical

Education

Management qualification

1st degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Summary

This post holder will be responsible for the operational management of all aspects of the Community Diagnostic Centre at Finchley Memorial Hospital. The post holder will work with senior clinical leaders and managers to drive and deliver excellent management leadership, support, and capacity.

Main Duties of the Job

Key responsibilities:

• Manage operational staff within the CDC.
• Provide senior management leadership in supporting the CDC's contribution to the Divisional and Trust agenda and national plan, within the clinical and corporate governance frameworks of the Trust.
• In association with the Clinical Directors, be accountable to the Divisional Board for financial performance relating to delegated budgets for which this post is responsible and the operational performance of the directorate/s providing reports to the Divisional Board as required.
• Provide senior management leadership in leading on Quality Safety experience and effectiveness for the directorate.
• Promote world class care and work in a way that is patient-centred, involves service users, responds positively to feedback from user groups and promotes teamwork across services.
• Promote a culture of safety and quality, openness and accountability, public service, and teamwork in an environment of flexibility in which innovation can flourish in response to patients' needs.
• Support and manage the directorate to meet Trust and Monitor performance objectives.
• Develop appraisal, objective-setting, and performance development plans for all relevant staff.

About Us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.

Person Specification

Qualifications:

• Evidence of continuing personal development
• Management qualification
• 1st degree or equivalent

Desirable:

• Post graduate qualification

Experience:

• Significant management experience, in the NHS or equivalent
• Evidence of leading change projects
• Strategic business planning and project management
• Managing budgets

Skills and Knowledge:

• Leadership of a multidisciplinary team and delivering to deadlines and within resources.
• Acute operational management experience in a complex healthcare organisation
• Management of staff
• Effective communication skills
• Service planning and project management
• Broad understanding of the NHS and key policy issues which effect performance
• Aptitude to engage in constructive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve success through partnership
• Budgetary management skills
• Knowledge of strategic financial planning
• Demonstrates excellent negotiation skills
• Ability to achieve effective team working within the division and across divisions
• Numerate, IT literate, analytical and able to use business intelligence effectively.
• Demonstrate understanding of clinical governance risk

Employer Details

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Finchley Memorial Hospital - Community Diagnostic Centre, Granville Road, London, N12 0JE.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.