Department Manager (Trauma Outpatients)

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the Tees Valley area is looking for a Department Manager for its Trauma Outpatients service. The role involves leading a team, managing departmental resources, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care. Candidates should have leadership skills, extensive Orthopaedic experience, and relevant nursing qualifications. Insights into clinical governance and the ability to motivate teams are key aspects of this position. This is an exciting opportunity to enhance patient experiences in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Leadership training programs

Access to various professional development courses

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC Registration.
• BSc Hons Degree or Diploma in Nursing.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in delivering high-quality patient care.
• Manage departmental budget and resources.
• Ensure compliance with accreditation standards.

Skills

Leadership ability

Team collaboration

Motivational skills

Adaptability to changing needs

IT and system skills

Knowledge of clinical governance

Orthopaedic experience

Education

RGN NMC Registration

BSc Hons Degree / Diploma in Nursing

Post graduate study experience

Job description

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Department Manager (Trauma Outpatients)

The closing date is 31 December 2025

The Trauma Outpatients Department located within the James Cook University Hospital (and satellite clinics) serves patients attending for a range of Orthopaedic problems. You will see approximately 500 patients per week through a range of Orthopaedic Adult and Paediatric clinics.

(Satellite clinics at Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, Redcar Primary Care Hospital, East Cleveland Hospital).

As the department manager you will lead your team to deliver a safe and effective patient experience.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be expected to provide the delivery of high-quality specialist care through the Trauma Outpatients Service,

The post-holder will be expected to provide an expert clinical and leadership function in the assessment of care needs for this Orthopaedic client group.

They will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team by demonstrating a range of essential specialist nursing skills to meet the needs this client group.

The post-holder is responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of care on the Department with support from the clinical matron and wider Senior Leadership Team. Delivering safe, high quality, evidence-based nursing care to patients whilst respecting and involving families and carers as partners in care will be the foundation of your role.

The post holder will promote the positive image of the clinical area and the trust by being a role model, having a clear vision and using direct clinical leadership to ensure an excellent patient experience and a department that promotes both clinical and operational excellence.

The post holder in conjunction with the senior management team will manage the budget for the Department to ensure the best use of resources.

The Department manager will be clear focus on the attainment and maintenance of STAQC Accreditation should be maintained through continuous weekly audit against the agreed standards.

About us

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviour
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bities programs through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Skills

• o Ability to lead a service and team
• o Demonstrates an ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• o Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model
• o Able to assume additional managerial responsibility and prioritise this accordingly
• o Able to respond and adapt appropriately to changing needs of the service
• o Demonstrates competent IT and system skills
• o Participate in regular clinical supervision
• o Knowledge of clinical governance and risk assessment / management
• o Orthopaedic experience

Qualifications & Training

• o RGN NMC Registration
• o BSc Hons Degree / Diploma in Nursing
• o Equivalent post grad study experience
• o Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
• o Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to degree equivalent level

Experience

• o Evidence of leadership and development
• o Demonstrates clinical knowledge and skills relevant to role.
• o To display effective communication skills, communicating complex, sensitive and contentious information to others
• o Able to evidence team leadership experience
• o Demonstrates an ability to prioritise and co-ordinate the workload of the team to ensure fairness and equality
• o Demonstrates evidence of teaching skills to a range of professionals
• o Experience within Trauma and Orthopaedics

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