Job summary
Deputising for the Medicine Service Manager, responsible for direct line management of Endoscopy Booking Team Leaders, performance management of Medicine Services against RTT standards and day to day operational leadership of services.
Main duties of the job
- Direct line management Elective / Diagnostic Team Leader and overarching management of their teams.
- Ensure that all Trust policies and procedures are communicated effectively to staff and acted upon.
- Act as Trust expert in relation to both inpatient and outpatient waiting list and access policy, helping educate other team members in this area.
- Create action plans as needed using specific information obtained from different areas
- Challenge and manage poor processes
- Be fully conversant with all Trust and departmental policies and guidelines and ensure these are implemented and adhered to.
- To act as a role model to less experienced staff, actively demonstrating Trust
- Maintain excellent working relationships with all colleagues - Consultants, Medical Secretaries, Nursing and Midwifery.
- Prioritise own work in the context of multiple demands from various members of the management team, as well as recognising own limitations and following escalation policies.
- Adaptable and flexible to handle multiple tasks
- Ability to deal with stressful situations, such as tight deadlines and rapid changes to service plans.
- Exercising judgement when dealing with enquiries, to evaluate the situation and resolve problems within remit, escalating issues appropriately.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnelworkingalongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To proactively manage patient pathways in line with national RTT guidance, ensuring care is offered equitably and with a focus on reducing long-waiting patient pathways.
- The post holder will work within the Medicine Directorate across Frimley Park, Heatherwood and Wexham Park hospitals, and will be responsible to the Service Manager, supporting the Associate Director and Chief of Service, Matron and Senior Nurses, and any other key senior staff in achieving the aims of the Directorate.
- The post holder is responsible for the proactive management of specific medicine services, working closely with clinical colleagues to ensure waiting list improvements and national targets are achieved, including assisting with development and implementation of new technologies relating to virtual consultation.
- The post holder is responsible for supporting the Service Manager in the achievement of all elective access targets.
- The post holder is responsible for the line management of the Elective / Diagnostic Team Leader at Frimley and Wexham Park hospitals.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To proactively manage patient pathways in line with national RTT guidance, ensuring care is offered equitably and with a focus on reducing long-waiting patient pathways.
- The post holder will work within the Medicine Directorate across Frimley Park, Heatherwood and Wexham Park hospitals, and will be responsible to the Service Manager, supporting the Associate Director and Chief of Service, Matron and Senior Nurses, and any other key senior staff in achieving the aims of the Directorate.
- The post holder is responsible for the proactive management of specific medicine services, working closely with clinical colleagues to ensure waiting list improvements and national targets are achieved, including assisting with development and implementation of new technologies relating to virtual consultation.
- The post holder is responsible for supporting the Service Manager in the achievement of all elective access targets.
- The post holder is responsible for the line management of the Elective / Diagnostic Team Leader at Frimley and Wexham Park hospitals.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
Person Specification
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).
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).
