Group Director of Operations - Community Services

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Strategic Development
• To lead and identify the key activities for service improvement and business development
• within the speciality group(s) to ensure the delivery of cost effective strategies and the adoption of the lean principles.
• To develop and deliver business opportunities that maintain, support and enhance the delivery of high quality services, identifying new and existing opportunities for income generation.
• To lead service redesign with multidisciplinary teams, clinicians and operational managers to deliver Trust Objectives
• To work with clinical staff in developing appropriate changes in clinical practice within the division in line with Trust objectives.
• To develop effective partnerships with other Community Management teams and Corporate Services teams in order to contribute to strategic and planning deliberations that will develop the corporate strategy and operations of the Trust.
• To develop effective partnerships with clinical staff and an environment within which all staff within the service line have an opportunity to become closely involved in, or have genuine opportunity to influence, the management, planning of, and development of, services within the speciality group.

Financial Responsibilities
• To ensure that the Community management team(s) establishes a strategic direction, which provides a basis for business planning and reflects the priorities of the organisation.
• To involve all clinical and non-clinical teams in the management of budgets, and service line reporting and management to ensure service are cost effective
• To maximise income opportunities throughout the speciality group(s) and ensure business cases are in place to develop and sustain services in line with strategic plans for the trust
• To ensure that assets, for the full range of specialties and department within the service line (building, land and equipment) are utilised efficiently and effectively. Contribute to Trust -wide capital issues, including new developments as appropriate
• To be responsible for the strategic development of business, workforce and service plans in conjunction with other internal and external partners
• To support the introduction of local and national health initiatives to ensure their effective integration into specialties and services.

For further details please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

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Experience

Essential criteria

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Knowledge and Skills

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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

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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

• Job Description (PDF, 346.6KB)
• Welcoming Applicants with Disability (PDF, 98.9KB)
• Candidate Information (PDF, 291.8KB)
• How to complete an application form & Values Fact Sheet (DOCX, 874.6KB)