Job summary
Berkshire Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) is a mature, successful pathology network which is a contractual joint venture between the following Trusts:
- Ashford and St. Peter's NHS Foundation Trust
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
As Deputy General Manager you will have a key leadership role and be responsible for the operational delivery of all aspects of Blood Sciences for Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Service Network. You will form part of the Blood Sciences leadership team, working in partnership with the General Manager, Deputy General Managers, Business Managers, Finance and HR and will play a fundamental role in driving forward the departments vision for service improvement and quality.
Are you motivated, driven, and have high standards? Are you able to provide operational and management leadership to ensure that the service achieves its performance objectives? Can you independently problem solve departmental issues? Are you able to quickly build relationships within your own teams and the wider organisation? Are you passionate about creating a respectful environment which encourages a genuine team spirit, and believes in doing the right thing, first time, every time? If you think this is you and you are determined to make a real difference within the Blood Sciences department, then this might be the job for you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will report to the General Manager and will provide appropriate support to the General Manager and the Clinical Leads and Site Managers in the delivery of all operational functions within Blood Sciences at our Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) and Ashford Saint Peters Hospital (ASPH) sites. The individual will have responsibility for defined services and allocated resources. A specific key requirement of this post is to support the Biochemistry department with your specialist knowledge and skills, assuring the quality of the Blood Sciences service within the network. You will also be responsible for the overarching operational delivery of the BSPS pathology services at the Royal Berkshire Foundation trust hospital, working closely with the BSPS deputy General Managers of the respective pathology services, in addition to senior trust management team at Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust Hospital.
Under the Blood Sciences General Managers leadership, the Deputy General Manager will:
- Be accountable to the General Manager for the operational performance of the department's services.
- Lead the site management team across RBH and ASPH Trusts
- Be accountable for delivery of financial targets for the departments services
- Ensure excellent quality throughout the Blood Sciences teams
- Deputies for the General Manager
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
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.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To operationally manage the Royal Berkshire and Ashford Saint Peters Foundation trust hospitals Blood Sciences laboratories
To maintain ISO accreditation
To be the specialist in and advise onBiochemistry practices across the network.
To maintain financial control across the service lines.
To promote staff development and ensure patient safety.
To ensure all information is validated and complies with information governance policies.
To deputise for General Manager Blood Sciences
STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT:
To participate in the strategic development and implementation as well as direction of BSPS through the pathology executive team.
To give strategic direction to Blood Sciences Services taking account of the context of the local, network, regional and national agendas.
To assist with the business planning within Blood Sciences across the network, integrating this into the wider Pathology planning process.
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT:
To manage capacity and demand ensuring that turnaround time targets are met.
To develop and implement an annual business plan that delivers the key business goals and objectives for Blood Science.
To develop and present business cases for capital and service developments as required.
To proactively identify potential obstacles to achieving key business goals and objectives and establish appropriate handling strategies to overcome these.
To establish and maintain effective business performance management processes that monitors performance against plans. In the event of under-performance, take rapid and decisive corrective action to correct.
To validate and present key performance data and information for discussion with the Blood Sciences team at monthly performance reviews.
To participate in negotiating service contracts internally and externally as appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To operationally manage the Royal Berkshire and Ashford Saint Peters Foundation trust hospitals Blood Sciences laboratories
To maintain ISO accreditation
To be the specialist in and advise onBiochemistry practices across the network.
To maintain financial control across the service lines.
To promote staff development and ensure patient safety.
To ensure all information is validated and complies with information governance policies.
To deputise for General Manager Blood Sciences
STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT:
To participate in the strategic development and implementation as well as direction of BSPS through the pathology executive team.
To give strategic direction to Blood Sciences Services taking account of the context of the local, network, regional and national agendas.
To assist with the business planning within Blood Sciences across the network, integrating this into the wider Pathology planning process.
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT:
To manage capacity and demand ensuring that turnaround time targets are met.
To develop and implement an annual business plan that delivers the key business goals and objectives for Blood Science.
To develop and present business cases for capital and service developments as required.
To proactively identify potential obstacles to achieving key business goals and objectives and establish appropriate handling strategies to overcome these.
To establish and maintain effective business performance management processes that monitors performance against plans. In the event of under-performance, take rapid and decisive corrective action to correct.
To validate and present key performance data and information for discussion with the Blood Sciences team at monthly performance reviews.
To participate in negotiating service contracts internally and externally as appropriate.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, Presentation skills and the ability to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing. , Diplomatic, Ability to facilitate and chair meetings
- Ability to implement change through staff, Strategic ability to plan and develop services for the future, Be customer and outcome focused.
- IT literate, Ability to build strong working relationships with a wide variety of personnel
- Highly developed analytical skills, Highly developed analytical skills Demonstrates high levels of self-belief, drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through.
- Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovating solutions, Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
- Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance)
- Good political awareness, High degree of self-awareness
- Intellectual flexibility that enables the seasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic , Drive and energy conclusions
- Able to work flexibly between the Blood Sciences sites
Qualifications
Essential
- oPrevious successful management experience, at a senior level for at least three years,
- oManagement qualification
- oHigher qualification in Biochemistry, MSc in Biomedical Sciences or equivalent
- oHCPC registration
Desirable
- An in-depth knowledge of the health care sector
Experience
Essential
- Good working knowledge of a large network Pathology services, gained through management responsibility and which includes an excellent working relationship with clinicians.
- Post-registration relevant experience of a blood sciences service at a senior level with a proven successful track record
- oLeading and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation
- oTranslating business strategy into operational delivery
- oManaging operating budgets and delivering financial balance
- oLeading and performance managing teams and individuals
- oExperience of implementing and evaluating a range of projects/initiatives that represent solutions to changing workforce/service environments
- oExperience of achieving and delivering projects and work streams on time and on budget.
- oExperience of audit and use of performance indicators to manage change.
- oExperience of recruiting staff and of assessing performance of staff
- oExperience leading major procurements
- oExperience of NHS contracting
- oExperience of managing logistics and transport
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, Presentation skills and the ability to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing. , Diplomatic, Ability to facilitate and chair meetings
- Ability to implement change through staff, Strategic ability to plan and develop services for the future, Be customer and outcome focused.
- IT literate, Ability to build strong working relationships with a wide variety of personnel
- Highly developed analytical skills, Highly developed analytical skills Demonstrates high levels of self-belief, drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through.
- Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovating solutions, Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
- Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance)
- Good political awareness, High degree of self-awareness
- Intellectual flexibility that enables the seasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic , Drive and energy conclusions
- Able to work flexibly between the Blood Sciences sites
Qualifications
Essential
- oPrevious successful management experience, at a senior level for at least three years,
- oManagement qualification
- oHigher qualification in Biochemistry, MSc in Biomedical Sciences or equivalent
- oHCPC registration
Desirable
- An in-depth knowledge of the health care sector
Experience
Essential
- Good working knowledge of a large network Pathology services, gained through management responsibility and which includes an excellent working relationship with clinicians.
- Post-registration relevant experience of a blood sciences service at a senior level with a proven successful track record
- oLeading and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation
- oTranslating business strategy into operational delivery
- oManaging operating budgets and delivering financial balance
- oLeading and performance managing teams and individuals
- oExperience of implementing and evaluating a range of projects/initiatives that represent solutions to changing workforce/service environments
- oExperience of achieving and delivering projects and work streams on time and on budget.
- oExperience of audit and use of performance indicators to manage change.
- oExperience of recruiting staff and of assessing performance of staff
- oExperience leading major procurements
- oExperience of NHS contracting
- oExperience of managing logistics and transport
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).
