Directorate Manager - General and Specialist Medicine

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Graduate or experience equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Masters or other further or post graduate education

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of all relevant elements of the role, such as finance, HR, operational management, RTT, manageing people and conflict etc.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of ongoing CPD, project management, data analysis

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

• Directorate Manager NMGH Candidate Information Pack (PDF, 708.4KB)
• DM General & Specialist Medicine Functional Requirements (PDF, 351.3KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 882.5KB)