Centre Manager

Blatchford; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Centre Manager to lead the prosthetic service in Stoke. This role involves ensuring the delivery of high-quality clinical services while managing budgets and fostering professional relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in team management and decision-making, ensuring that services are both effective and affordable. Join a supportive team dedicated to improving patient care and enjoy a range of benefits including a comprehensive development pathway and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Opportunity to purchase additional holiday

Pension

Paid HCPC Registration

Protected CPD programme

Ongoing training and courses

Career development pathway

Discounted shopping and leisure activities

Health cash plan

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams and delivering commercial contracts.
• Strong budgeting and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high-quality clinical service delivery to patients.
• Manage care packages and align clinical controls to best practices.

Skills

Team Management

Budget Management

Communication Skills

Decision-Making Skills

IT Skills

Auditing

KPI Management

Job description

Blatchford is an innovative, multi-award-winning, global, manufacturer of some of the world’s most advanced prosthetic technology, bespoke seating solutions and orthotic devices, as well as a provider of wider clinical services.

Our evidence-based approach and commitment to continuously challenge possibilities ensures our mobility solutions prioritise the wellbeing and long-term health of our users.

Through innovation, science, technology, and maintaining a clear focus on people, we make mobility possible.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Centre Manager to provide effective leadership and day to day management of the prosthetic service as our NHS centre at Stoke.

The role:

As Centre Manager, you will ensure the clinicians deliver a high quality and appropriate clinical service to meet the needs of patients, ensuring it is affordable to the NHS and sustains Blatchford as a specialist clinical service company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the provision of evidence-based clinical service to patients.
• Ensuring packages of care are affordable to the NHS and meet the commercial needs to the company.
• Ensuring care packages are effectively managed and clinical controls are aligned to “best practice” guidelines.
• Ensuring appropriate MDT approach is used in your contract(s).
• Developing professional working relationships with key stakeholders in your service.
• Understanding of all aspects of the local contract.
• Accountable for all aspects of people management for your team
• Setting clear, measurable, and challenging objectives for all colleagues.
• Ensuring all clinical and service based KPIs for the contract are achieved.
• Participating in annual budget setting process.
• Working with team to review service and involve them in the development of an action plan to address any areas for improvement.

What can we offer you?

• 25 days holiday (rising with service)
• Opportunity to purchase additional holiday.
• Pension
• Paid HCPC Registration
• Protected CPD programme, tailored to individual development needs.
• Ongoing internal and external training and courses
• Clearly defined career development pathway.
• Discounted shopping and leisure activities
• Health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Refer a friend incentive scheme.

What are we looking for?

Essential skills and experience

• Previous experience of managing teams to deliver commercial contracts.
• Experience of managing budgets
• Able to prioritise your own workload and flow and that of others.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively with all levels of colleagues, customers, and clients.
• Able to demonstrate sound judgement and decision-making skills.
• Advanced and appropriate IT skills.
• Auditing and KPI experience.

We are a supportive and committed company, with a focused team, dedicated to improving patient care.

If you feel you have the background to be considered for this Centre Manager role, please apply now.