Deputy Director of Operations

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent combination of degree and post graduate clinical or professional qualifications, management training and experience.
• Can evidence recent and on-going personal development activity

Experience & Acheivements

Essential criteria

• Has current broad knowledge of current NHS policy and context
• Has specific in-depth knowledge of the challenges facing health and social care
• Substantial experience at senior management level in a public sector organisation, with a proven track record demonstrating successful strategic planning and implementation
• Experience of having provided health and/ or other public sector services.
• Can demonstrate experience of leading, introducing and managing major change programmes
• Evidence of significant and measurable outcomes and achievements at both strategic and operational level that impacted positively on organisational objectives
• Evidence of successful audit, risk assessment and management in a complex environment
• Proven experience of managing and motivating diverse teams
• A full and demonstrable understanding of the drivers for public sector reform, and specifically of the NHS policy agenda
• Demonstrable understanding of primary care, acute services and the health and social care agenda.
• Has demonstrable experience of effective partnership working with other organisations at a senior level, preferably a mix of public, private and voluntary sector
• Experience of establishing effective financial management and control procedures

Desirable criteria

• Experience of integrated care systems or programmes
• Contract negotiations

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels
• Can evidence innovative and strategic thinking ability
• Ability to translate strategic goals into effective and achievable operational plans and capable of monitoring their progress and outcomes
• Is politically astute with knowledge of national and regional decision making and influencing bodies
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Committed to promoting diversity and awareness of equal opportunities
• Demonstrates commitment to the values, principles of public service and health and social care in particular
• Constructively challenges activities which may not contribute to the delivery of the corporate strategy, while balancing the importance of being a corporate player
• Well developed communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to manage difficult situations under public scrutiny

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download

• Job description and person specification (PDF, 592.5KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)