Deputy Divisional General Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Person specification

Commitment to Values & Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards

Education/ Training/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Master's degree in Healthcare or management or demonstrate ability to work at Masters level.
• Post Graduate Diploma and/or equivalent senior management experience.
• Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

• Project management experience
• Prince 2

Communication/ Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Proven leadership skills, development of team
• Ability to draft clear and concise business cases and papers
• Forward thinking and be able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development
• Ability to analyse and interpret situation as well as information
• Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant management experience in a senior role within the acute sector in particular operational management
• Experience of managing strategic and operational performance in achieving key targets
• Proven record of financial management at senior level, delivering on complex and large budgets including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action
• Successful delivery of cost improvement programmes
• Proven track record of meeting national targets
• Knowledge and understanding of the modernisation agenda and the opportunities for redesigning services
• Knowledge and experience of collaborating with external organisations, both NHS and non-NHS providers whilst being politically aware of hidden agenda and adapting negotiating style to meet the needs

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria

• Proven success at managing highly complex organisational change while maintaining service quality with demonstrable impact on improving healthcare
• Significant experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues
• Evidence of report writing and presentation skills, to include business cases and formal presentations
• Proven experience of developing and implementing strategic plans

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Commitment to self-development with ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of key policies and themes in the healthcare provision in the UK
• An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance
• Commitment to promote equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development
• Ability to work in an unpredictable environment, achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines, prioritise own/Division workload

Physical Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to use office equipment with or without adaptions
• Ability to concentrate for long periods of time i.e. when chairing meetings/writing reports/analysis data etc.

Other requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel between NUH sites and other locations

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

For more details visit; School leaving age - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

International Recruitment: If you are applying for a role with us from outside of the UK then please read the guidance on applying for a health or social care job in the UK from abroad.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month's pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• JD (PDF, 712.3KB)
• Deputy Divisional General Manager PS (PDF, 585.7KB)
• Mindful Employer (PDF, 242.5KB)
• Equality and Diversity (PDF, 122.3KB)
• Equal Opportunities (PDF, 57.4KB)
• Disability Confidence Scheme (PDF, 51.0KB)
• Rehabilitation of Ex Offenders (PDF, 106.0KB)