General Manager
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHCFT) is an outstanding organisation that operates a range of acute and community services across a wide and dispersed geographic location.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a General Manager within the Medicine & Emergency Care Business Unit.
Main duties of the job
The General Manager is accountable to the Deputy Director for the provision of leadership, direction and financial control for all services in the Business Units, contributing to and ensuring the delivery of strategic and operational service objectives set by the Board and the Trust Executive.Together with the Deputy Director, the General Manager will foster a culture, which engages consultant medical staff and all other members of staff in the development and delivery of services.
The selection process will consist of an assessment centre, psychometric testing and a competency based interview.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick upon Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.Leading in innovation and quality – our Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital is the first of its kind in England.
The General Manager is a key member of the Trust’s management team and will work closely with Deputy and Executive Director colleagues and contributes to the overall management of the Trust and the services it provides. The post holder will work closely with the lead Executive Director and Deputy Director responsible for their Business Unit
The post holder is part of a small team of Executive Directors, Deputy Directors and General Managers who take responsibility for the Trust out of hours.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Objectives include achievement of all national performance targets as well as those specified by National planning guidance, S&QI priorities alongside the strategic objectives of the Business Unit. The scope of this post includes continuing the process of the quality improvement within Northumbria Trusts Annual Plan.
Accountable for the delivery of patient services within the Business Unit ensuring that the highest standard of patient care is delivered.
To maintain an ongoing review of the profile and skill mix of the workforce to ensure the most appropriate use and cost effective of staff resources.
To maintain a culture that engages and involves staff on how services are provided and how quality and access targets are delivered.
In partnership with the Deputy Director ensure the provision of strong leadership, both clinical and managerial, for all services within the Business Unit. This will involve identifying solutions to problems and carrying forward changes.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Substantial in depth experience and knowledge of management plus educated to degree level or equivalent
- Management qualification at post grad level
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.