Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Site Team based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. You will have a problem-solving approach, be quality driven, and have the patient at the forefront of decisions you make. If you are an established leader and role model, this could be the role for you. You will be responsible for maintaining safety, capacity and flow across a complex tertiary Centre, and be the most senior manager on site in the out of hours period.
Main duties of the job
Accountable for service delivery for the site capacity provision within the Trust
-To proactively manage Site capacity in and out of hours, ensuring that safe and effective decision making occurs to streamline the patient journey at admission, transfer and discharge.
-To provide real time capacity information to internal and external stakeholders through the provision of accurate reporting including situation reporting and escalation management systems
-To deliver professional and operational priorities from a corporate perspective
-To support senior colleagues across a spectrum of general and operational management issues aimed at managing overall capacity and patient flow.
-To maintain a leading role in the management of clinical capacity to accommodate elective and emergency admissions
-To facilitate staff and team development and ensure effective communication systems operate corporately.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level education (E)
- 1st level Registered Practitioner (E)
- Current Professional Body registration (E)
- Evidence of continuous management development(E)
- Masters level education or equivalent professional experience (E)
Desirable
- Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support / Immediate Life Support / Paediatric Immediate Life Support Course (D)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading a service/team (E)
- Experience of managing risk associated with service change (E)
- Evidence of effective resource management
- (E)
- Awareness of the NHS agenda at a national and local level (E)
- Able to demonstrate the use of evidence when decision making (E)
- Experience of leading and managing others
- Experience of measuring and evaluating outcomes in order to secure improvement. (E)
- Standard PC skills. (E)
- Able to influence change (E)
- Able to manage and resolve conflict (E)
- Has effective planning and organisational skills (E)
- Knowledge of evidence based practice (E)
- Knowledge of audit methods and appreciation of the value of audit to practice improvement (E)
- Experience of multi-disciplinary & multi professional collaborative working (E)
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Evidence of leading and delivering change through others (E)
- Able to hold others to account for agreed Targets (E)
- Creates and promotes opportunities for others to contribute and to develop (E)
- Able to shape and implement a vision for future service development (E)
- Evidence of effective team working to deliver and improve services. (E)
- Ability to critically analyse complex information and evaluate a range of options to identify service improvements (E)
- Exhibits energy and resilience to drive through results (E)
- Ability to adapt personal style in order to influence others and gain support for ideas. (E)
- Ability to apply lateral thinking to identify solutions to critical issues and the ability to take qualified risks where assessed as necessary. (E)
- Behaves in an open, ethical and professional manner(E)
- Aware of own strengths and limitations (E)
- Able to balance own plans and priorities with those of the service and other team members (E)
- Able to demonstrate a level of personal confidence necessary to overcome barriers (E)
- Evidence of diplomacy and ability to deal with difficult situations (E)
- Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure to tight deadlines. (E)
- Able to cope with interruptions whilst in periods of concentration (E)
- Manage conflicting priorities (E)
- Ability to use appropriate language to engage with staff in a positive manner(E)
- 24/7 shift pattern inclusive of weekdays, weekends, bank holidays, day and night shifts (E)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level education (E)
- 1st level Registered Practitioner (E)
- Current Professional Body registration (E)
- Evidence of continuous management development(E)
- Masters level education or equivalent professional experience (E)
Desirable
- Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support / Immediate Life Support / Paediatric Immediate Life Support Course (D)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading a service/team (E)
- Experience of managing risk associated with service change (E)
- Evidence of effective resource management
- (E)
- Awareness of the NHS agenda at a national and local level (E)
- Able to demonstrate the use of evidence when decision making (E)
- Experience of leading and managing others
- Experience of measuring and evaluating outcomes in order to secure improvement. (E)
- Standard PC skills. (E)
- Able to influence change (E)
- Able to manage and resolve conflict (E)
- Has effective planning and organisational skills (E)
- Knowledge of evidence based practice (E)
- Knowledge of audit methods and appreciation of the value of audit to practice improvement (E)
- Experience of multi-disciplinary & multi professional collaborative working (E)
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Evidence of leading and delivering change through others (E)
- Able to hold others to account for agreed Targets (E)
- Creates and promotes opportunities for others to contribute and to develop (E)
- Able to shape and implement a vision for future service development (E)
- Evidence of effective team working to deliver and improve services. (E)
- Ability to critically analyse complex information and evaluate a range of options to identify service improvements (E)
- Exhibits energy and resilience to drive through results (E)
- Ability to adapt personal style in order to influence others and gain support for ideas. (E)
- Ability to apply lateral thinking to identify solutions to critical issues and the ability to take qualified risks where assessed as necessary. (E)
- Behaves in an open, ethical and professional manner(E)
- Aware of own strengths and limitations (E)
- Able to balance own plans and priorities with those of the service and other team members (E)
- Able to demonstrate a level of personal confidence necessary to overcome barriers (E)
- Evidence of diplomacy and ability to deal with difficult situations (E)
- Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure to tight deadlines. (E)
- Able to cope with interruptions whilst in periods of concentration (E)
- Manage conflicting priorities (E)
- Ability to use appropriate language to engage with staff in a positive manner(E)
- 24/7 shift pattern inclusive of weekdays, weekends, bank holidays, day and night shifts (E)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
