Assistant Specialty Manager - Care of the Elderly, Stroke & Medicine
A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will manage the operational performance of services across Care of the Elderly, Stroke and Acute Medicine at Weston General Hospital. This will be achieved by delivering challenging performance targets through effective communication and liaison with consultant, medical, nursing and administrative staff across the Trust on a day-to-day basis.
The role is dual line managed by the Site Operational Manager and Specialty Manager for Care of the Elderly and Stroke, but the successful candidate will have close working relationships with other Specialty Managers, the Patient Access Team and the Administration Team at Weston General Hospital, as well as teams at both the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead Hospital.
The post holder must be able to travel to other locations, such as the Bristol Royal Infirmary as some of the Trusts training courses and meetings are delivered at this location.- To line manage and provide day to day supervision for administrative and clerical staff in Care of the Elderly, Stroke and Acute Medicine.
- To support the Specialty Manager to manage RTT performance and levels, including validation of pathways.
- To coordinate outpatient clinics ensuring that our clinical capacity meets patient demand, poor utilisation of clinics is escalated, and patients are booked in the correct order.
- Ensure optimum working of the teams at all times, prioritising the workload of the department in times of staff shortage.
- To understand the various clerical roles that contribute to the success of the department to provide back fill for absence of team members if necessary.
- To act as point of contact for the senior management team in reference to the day-to-day management of the admin and clerical teams in the patch.
- Ensure effective delivery of staff training/development, to enable a flexible trained workforce, to meet service delivery challenges.
- Attend and participate in various meetings within the department, Division and Trust.
- To assist the Specialty Manager in the achievement of all relevant performance targets, utilising cross divisional resources where necessary.
- To support the Specialty Manager with ward-based issues/resident doctor and consultant queries
- To support recruitment of staff including the preparation of job descriptions, personal specifications, adverts and documentation required for submission to the Divisional Pay Control Panel (PCP).
UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
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For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025