Deputy Directorate Manager

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cherwell District; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Deputy Directorate Manager within the Specialist Medicine Directorate, covering Dermatology, Immunology, Sexual Health, Genetics, Respiratory, Infectious Diseases and Diabetes and Endocrine.

The post holder will work with the Directorate Manager and Clinical Director to ensure effective day-to-day operations, delivering strategic objectives and improving services across the local health economy.

Responsibilities

• Support the Deputy Directorate Manager to ensure efficient day-to-day running of the Clinical Directorate
• Contribute to delivering key quality, performance and financial plans
• Lead and line manage staff within designated clinical units
• Help shape Directorate plans to meet objectives and improve patient care

Job description

The Specialist Medicine Directorate comprises of Dermatology, Clinical Immunology, Sexual Health, Clinical Genetics, Respiratory, Infectious Diseases and Diabetes and Endocrine.

In conjunction with the Directorate Manager (DM), Clinical Director and Matrons the Deputy Directorate Managers will work across organisational boundaries to ensure appropriate services are in place and to deliver national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards and will contribute to shaping the future healthcare across the local economy.

Each Deputy is responsible for working with the DM to ensure the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the Clinical Directorate and delivering key quality, performance and financial plans, achieving key service improvements within the Clinical Directorate and line managing appropriate staff within designated clinical units.

The post holders are key members of the Clinical Directorate leadership team, and will develop and implement Directorate plans to secure the agreed objectives for the Clinical Directorate and make a positive contribution to delivery of health care across the local health community.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more herewww.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.