Associate General Manager

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

To provide timely, efficient and effective operational management support for divisional service areas, assisting the lead clinicians and senior managers as required and ensuring that these services are responsive, innovative and provided to the highest possible clinical and performance standards.

To take forward agreed projects to improve patient pathway, service delivery and patient experience in agreed areas. To lead on ensuring that all performance/quality targets are achieved. To problem solve as appropriate, developing and implementing lasting solutions in conjunction with clinical and managerial colleagues. To be a key member of the divisional management team, taking full responsibility for actions and for keeping other team members fully informed at all times.

The post holder will manage a team of administrative staff. This may include supervisors, clinic staff, medical secretaries, receptionists, pathway coordinators, project leads and others.

To deputise for the General Manager when required.

Main duties of the job

1.1. To promote and support the development of the Trust's mission, values, aims and objectives.

2.1. To ensure that the divisional services provided are of a consistently high quality and deliver excellent patient experience.

Service improvement - Length of stay, Elderly and Frail pathway
3.1. To be accountable to the Divisional Director of Operations for the financial performance of key delegated budgets within identified specialties, taking actions to limit spending when required.

4.1 To work with the divisional governance manager to monitor risk within specific services, investigate reds/SUIs and to support the overall risk management structure of the division.

5.1 Maintain an updated awareness of areas of variance against contracted performance in identified specialties, analysing and explaining the reasons for variation where it occurs.

6.1 Manage budgets for pathways and services within portfolio.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development

1. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
2. Improving the experience of staff with disability
3. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
4. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To promote and support the development of the Trust's mission, values, aims and objectives.

To ensure that the divisional services provided are of a consistently high quality and deliver excellent patient experience.

Service improvement - Length of stay, Elderly and Frail pathway
To be accountable to the Divisional Director of Operations for the financial performance of key delegated budgets within identified specialties, taking actions to limit spending when required.

To work with the divisional governance manager to monitor risk within specific services, investigate reds/SUIs and to support the overall risk management structure of the division.

Maintain an updated awareness of areas of variance against contracted performance in identified specialties, analysing and explaining the reasons for variation where it occurs.

Manage budgets for pathways and services within portfolio.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

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• Please refer to the job description for personal Skills and job related skills

Desirable criteria

• Please refer to the job description for Qualification and Experience
• Please refer to the job description for personal Skills and job related skills

Job related skills

Essential criteria

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We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Candidate information pack (PDF, 353.3KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)