Ophthalmology Unit Manager

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Radford Semele; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Ophthalmology Unit Manager to lead our busy eye unit. You will be responsible for day-to-day running of clinics and staffing, ensuring patients receive safe, timely and high-quality care.

As a visible leader you will support and develop a multi-disciplinary team, working closely with clinicians, nurses and management to maintain a safe environment and drive service improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an ophthalmology unit or hospital department.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Commitment to patient safety and high-quality care.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day running of ophthalmology clinics and staffing.
• Provide visible, approachable leadership to a multi-disciplinary team.
• Drive service improvements and ensure care meets quality standards.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced, motivated, compassionate Ophthalmology Unit Manager to lead our busy eye unit.

You will be responsible for day to day running of clinics and staffing, ensuring that patients receive safe, timely and high quality care.

As a visible and approachable leader you will support and develop a multi disciplinary team, working closely with clinicians, Nurses and management to maintain a safe environment and drive service improvements., Establish, develop, maintain, monitor and facilitate the delivery of services at departmental level, across two sites ensuring services provided meet organisational objectives, divisional service strategies and quality accounts.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse with strong leadership skills to make a real difference to patient care and staff wellbeing.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2