Job summary
Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity available to join the Integrated Local Services (ILS) directorate as a Deputy General Manager (DGM). This role will sit as part of a pair of DGMs, reporting to and deputising for the General Manager and will be an integral member of the ILS Divisional Management Team.
This role will mange a team of 4 service managers and have operational and strategic responsibility for a range of interesting and developing adult community services including: @home, Neighbourhood Nursing, Palliative and End of Life Care, Community Heart Failure, TB, Continence Advisory, Adult Continuing Healthcare and Tissue Viability.
Main duties of the job
To deliver in this role, you will need experience of working within a multi-professional NHS team and collaborative working with internal and external stakeholders. You will need to have a strong commitment to improving performance whilst remaining passionate about quality and safety. You will have a strong proven track record of inclusive leadership and staff management. You will have a proven history of successful operational management experience, and will demonstrate a high standard of communication and organisational skills, and an ability to use your initiative.
This role will also have opportunities to lead on directorate wide service improvement projects such as the new Urgent Community Response, working closely with partners from Lambeth and Southwark Local Authority, implementing our new EPIC EHR system and designing innovative data dashboards for performance management.
About us
The Integrated Local Services directorate are an integral part of the Integrated and Specialist Medicine (ISM) Clinical Group. The Clinical Group brings together a number of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust services that work collaboratively across the hospital and with our partners to provide excellence in clinical care, research and academia.
Integrated Local Services has a number of services providing integral community based care to patients across Lambeth, Southwark and beyond.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills, a commitment to patient care and performance delivery along with robust financial and workforce management experience. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking at furthering their experience in the NHS. You will be highly collaborative, systematic and rigorous in your approach, with a high level of emotional intelligence. A strong track-record of successful delivery is essential as is a passionate desire to make a difference to patients and their families.
If you believe you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to join our team we would love to hear from you. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills, a commitment to patient care and performance delivery along with robust financial and workforce management experience. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking at furthering their experience in the NHS. You will be highly collaborative, systematic and rigorous in your approach, with a high level of emotional intelligence. A strong track-record of successful delivery is essential as is a passionate desire to make a difference to patients and their families.
If you believe you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to join our team we would love to hear from you. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant Masters, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
- Prince 2 qualification or equivalent experience
Skills
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques.
- Extensive knowledge of contract management.
- Excellent understanding and track record of successful change and project management.
- Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of leading successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
- Extensive operational leadership experience in large complex organisations, including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
- Experience of managing large, multi-stranded budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant Masters, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
- Prince 2 qualification or equivalent experience
Skills
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques.
- Extensive knowledge of contract management.
- Excellent understanding and track record of successful change and project management.
- Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of leading successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
- Extensive operational leadership experience in large complex organisations, including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
- Experience of managing large, multi-stranded budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas.
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.
