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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In conjunction with the General Manager, support the Clinical Director, Clinical Leads, Head of Nursing, Lead Nurse and Matrons to:

Lead on the development of service strategy and annual plans for designated specialties as part of the annual planning cycle.
Support and promote the Trust's mission, values, aims and objectives
Produce accurate, high quality business cases and service development bids taking into account activity and income projections
Ensure strong operational and financial service performance against plans through identification of problems at an early stage and the initiation of corrective action

Service Management

Be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the service, reporting to the General Manager on all matters affecting the delivery of core services including:

Support the Trust's performance and management framework and be accountable for performance in designated specialties against all key dimensions within the framework including the achievement of national targets, taking corrective action as required
To assist with the investigation and response to formal complaints as required, taking steps to ensure that lessons are learned from issues which give rise to complaints and that these issues are not repeated
To ensure that clinic administration is carried out in accordance with Trust policies, ensuring all clinic changes and other adjustments are carried out on PiMs quickly and efficiently and to continually monitor the effectiveness of clinic booking patterns
To be conversant with all operating systems and databases and to ensure that relevant staff have the skills to manage this effectively, in a manner that ensures the patient pathway is clearly understood
To monitor the quality and timeliness of patient related communication across services including the quality and accuracy of letter templates, the speed of turnaround for clinical letters, the use of voicemail and the responsiveness of staff when contacted by patients or referrers
To ensure adequate staffing levels of all staff groups within established resource
Where relevant, to ensure that rotas and on-call arrangements are in place through the service and that these comply with workforce and working time directives
To ensure effective communication systems are in place across and between specialties and other relevant service groups
To ensure the establishment and maintenance of good working relationships and communications with the wider Trust
To ensure collaborative partnership working with other Trusts, other NHS agencies and with other health and academic partners across the health economy and across King's Health Partners

Service Improvement

Monitor the improvement programme for the services and associated work streams to support patient pathways
In collaboration with the Clinical Director, Clinical Leads, Head of Nursing, Lead Nurses, Matrons, AHP leads, General Manager and others facilitate patient pathway projects and improvements
To review and update standard operating policies and procedures, taking action as appropriate to enable continuous improvements to service quality
To work with specialty based staff to achieve sustained improvements including the following areas as appropriate :
4 hr A&E target
Outpatient efficiency e.g. DNA and cancellation rate
Inpatient efficiency e.g. length of stay and theatre bookings
Clinical Quality
Patient Experience
Financial efficiency e.g. coding depth and accuracy and service line profitability
Patient Access e.g. RTT and Cancer
To support and encourage appropriate innovation in clinical practice and in the way services are perceived by patients, recognising the importance of informed choice for all patients
To lead on changes to Information systems in conjunction with ICT as required to support the service

Information and Planning

To introduce and maintain the Trust's performance and management framework for services and be accountable for performance against all key dimensions within the framework, including the achievement of national targets, taking corrective action as required
To review and escalate as appropriate performance indicator information in line with the Trust's performance management framework
Support Patient Target List management and validation
Validate and distribute reports and performance data to clinical teams.
Validate and distribute data on demand, capacity, waiting times and other performance metrics
Lead the development of robust information systems to support performance reviews
Develop a close understanding of data collection arrangements across the Trust
Work with the Business Intelligence Unit, with Contracts and with other departments to produce reports and information for clinical teams
Produce and perform presentations on performance for the Care Group and Site Executive management teams

Financial Management

To be accountable for the financial performance of delegated budgets within identified specialties, taking actions to limit spending when required
To deliver the objectives of the clinical services in line with commissioned activity and budgeted income
To develop cost reduction, income generation and efficiency proposals as required and implement them successfully
To lead implementation cost improvement initiatives focusing on income generation, on cost controls and on internal efficiencies as required and to implement agreed CIP programmes and plans
To ensure that all those within the services with influence over expenditure have the knowledge/ability and information required to understand the current financial framework
To ensure that valuable resources, for example endoscopy capacity, are used to maximum benefit
To ensure that all those within the services with influence over expenditure have the knowledge/ability and information required to understand the current financial framework and the impact of commissioning intentions
To authorise expenditure in line with Standing Financial Instructions and ensure that appropriate protocols are in place to control expenditure within budget
To monitor expenditure and ensure timely identification of budget variances, taking appropriate action to rectify such discrepancies

People Management

To lead, coach and manage the performance of the team in line with good people management practices
To agree objectives and review performance of staff, identifying individual training and development needs and promote continuing personal and professional development
To participate in regular performance appraisal meetings and ensure each member of the team has a clear set of objectives and development plans
To ensure the team is compliant with all statutory and mandatory training together with any professional training requirements, ensuring they are up to date and fully compliant
To manage absence and attendance in line with Trust policy ensuring the appropriate return to work meetings occur, e-roster is updated and productivity is at kept to the highest possible level
To ensure that medical rotas are appropriately managed
To identify and fill any vacancies that arise within the team in line with the Trust's recruitment policy and process
To identify talent and support the internal talent management process in order attract and retain and succession plan for your people
To review skills mix at regular intervals in order to identify any potential opportunities to maximise resource utilisation/allocation, ensuring job descriptions are kept up to date
To ensure overall wellbeing of the team is maintained
To ensure appropriate two way communication channels are in place and to communicate personally in a way that motivates and inspires staff
To ensure that teams consistently behave in a manner that reinforces the priorities and values of the Trust, addressing performance where it falls short of expectations
To develop effective team working across areas of responsibility to ensure the effective delivery of the service
To inspire staff towards continuous improvement and the delivery of excellent care through encouraging and supporting individual ideas
To ensure teams have clear roles and responsibilities and work as a team to support service delivery and patient care

Risk and Quality Management

To work with the patient safety, patient experience, risk & governance team to monitor and manage risk within specific services, to help investigate AIs/SUIs and to support the overall risk management structure of the Care Group, the Site and the Trust.
To ensure that the Risk Register for identified specialties is kept up to date and that key actions are completed
To ensure that all risk assessments are completed for areas within identified specialties
To work with colleagues across the Care Group and Site to effectively communicate and share best practice
To be responsible for establishing the methods for collection of data required by local, regional and national bodies to measure clinical performance
To ensure the data quality of quarterly statistical and financial reports in advance of commissioning meetings

Activity and Contracts

To maintain an up to date awareness of areas of variance against contracted performance in identified specialties, analysing and explaining the reasons for variation where it occurs
To work with clinical and administrative teams to achieve high levels of data quality and implement new systems where necessary
To manage external contracts with funding agencies, commissioning bodies and other organisations
To ensure effective processes and procedures are in place to monitor and track performance within the service against the performance contract with a particular focus on ensuring there is sufficient capacity to meet demand in the short and long term

For further details / informal visits contact:

NameFawez MolotooJob titleGeneral ManagerEmail addressmohammadfawez.molotoo@nhs.net

Person specification

Personal statement and experience

Essential criteria

Proven experience as service manager

Desirable criteria

Substantial experience

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

Senior Service Manager JD (PDF, 184.4KB)
Denmark Hill Site Map (PDF, 1.2MB)
Princess Royal (PRUH) Site map (PDF, 1.4MB)
Visa and Sponsorship Information (PDF, 352.6KB)

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