Hospital Services Manager

NHS; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Join NHS Blood and Transplant as an Operational Manager, leading a crucial team responsible for managing blood and components dispatch. You'll ensure compliance with national strategies, manage a budget, and lead staff while making a tangible difference in communities. This role requires leadership skills, experience in the NHS or pharmaceutical sectors, and a commitment to achieving excellence in service delivery.

Qualifications

• Leadership and management experience within NHSBT or pharmaceuticals.
• Willingness to undertake study to achieve Master's level qualification.
• Thorough understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice.

Responsibilities

• Overall management of stock control and dispatch of blood components.
• Collaborate with other HS Managers and Strategic Team.
• Manage and develop Hospital Services staff, including recruitment and appraisals.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice

Conflict Resolution

Education

FIBMS/Masters or equivalent experience

Job description

Were looking for an operational manager to take on a key leadership role for our team managing the stock control, validation, and dispatch of blood and blood components to hospitals and NHSBT sites in our service area.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for the overall management, stock control and dispatch of blood and components to hospital and NHSBT sites in the area served by the Centre. Your duties will include:-Ensuring that all units are validated in a controlled manner and within a time frame to maximise stock availability.Ensuring policy, practice and service development is in line with national strategyManagement and development of Hospital Services (HS) staff, including recruitment, appraisal and performance. Departmental Budget Holder.Working as an integral member to the Regional and National Hospital Services Team.Collaborating with other HS Managers and from time to time the Strategic Team to develop and support strategiesResponsibility for cross directorate liaison/working with regards to HS.Acting as Duty Hospital Services Manager for site and deputising for Regional HS ManagerYou will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior noticeYou will be required to participate in an on-call out of hours rota, which will include evenings, weekend or public holiday working

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• FIBMS/Masters OR equivalent experience (see Experience and Knowledge) and a willingness to undertake study to achieve Masters level qualification

Experience

• Leadership and management experience working within NHSBT or a pharmaceutical environment
• Experience of handling employee grievances, conflicts and disciplinaries
• Thorough understanding of working to the rules of Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Laboratory Practice and Total Quality Management
• Understanding of policies, standards and guidelines
• Experience and participation in validation and development projects
• Experience of audit process and requirements

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.

Regional Hospital Services Manager – North