Deputy General Manager

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Fulbourn; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Deputy General Manager (Band 8b) for the Children, Young People and Families Directorate. You will play a key leadership role, shaping high-quality services for children, young people and families across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

In this role you will drive service performance, transformation, quality improvement and partnership work, overseeing operational delivery, workforce development and financial management, ensuring

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and operational management experience in health or social care.
• Experience in driving service improvement and performance across multiple teams.
• Ability to collaborate with clinical leaders and system partners to deliver safe, effective care.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational management and development of the Children, Young People and Families health services.
• Line manage and support senior clinical and operational teams within the directorate; drive performance and development.
• Lead on workforce development, financial management and service improvement initiatives to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.

Job description

12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Join Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust as a

12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Join Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust as a Deputy General Manager (Band 8b) within the Children, Young People and Families Directorate, where you will play a key leadership role in shaping high-quality services for children, young people and families across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operational leader to drive service performance, transformation, quality improvement and partnership working across a diverse portfolio of community mental health services.
Working closely with the General Manager, clinical leaders and system partners, you will lead operational delivery, workforce development, financial management and service improvement initiatives, ensuring safe, effective and patient-centred care. The role offers the opportunity to influence strategic change, support innovative models of care and make a lasting difference to the outcomes and experiences of children, young people and their families.

• Provide day to day operational management and development of children's health services, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective and safe patient centred services within the Children’s, Young People and Families Directorate.
• As a member of the Senior Directorate Management Team ensure, encourage and enable the performance and development of the community mental health services and associated standards.
• The post holder will be expected to provide direct line management support and guidance, and to represent the broad views of local clinical and operational teams within the directorate and will need to achieve a level of visibility that enables these expectations to be met.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Deborah Nikolova Job title: General Manager Email address: [e-mail]