Deputy General Manager - Specialty Medicine Collaborative

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Excellent opportunities for development*

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Important Information

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification to Masters level or equivalent professional education in a relevant field
• Training in leadership and management skills in an NHS setting

Experience

Essential

• Professional knowledge plus additional specialist, management knowledge
• Considerable experience and knowledge with operational service management
• Leadership skills gained through previous experience and/or in house training
• Knowledge of statutory and legal frameworks within health and social Care
• Knowledge of Business Planning processes
• Experience as a senior manager including multi-disciplinary team management
• Developing effective networks and partnerships and stakeholder engagement
• Evidence of delivery and a track record of success
• Experience of delivering significant change within a clinical environment.
• Training in Change management

Desirable

• Knowledge of the area of the Collaborative
• Experience of the area of the Collaborative
• Experience in leading investigations

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed operational management knowledge acquired through a combination of in-depth experience and post graduate study
• Knowledge of change management and strategies and experience of implementing change
• Knowledge of modernisation techniques such as capacity and demand studies
• Knowledge of NHS agenda and impact on service
• Knowledge of Trust wide hospitals, wards, departments, services, policies and procedures gained through shadowing peers and induction into on call duties

Desirable

• Equality impact assessments

Skills & Aptitudes

Essential

• Ability to effectively analyse situations and information to inform decisions including analysing data and statistics and other available information
• Experience of leading, coordinating and organising teams
• Experience of managing, monitoring and controlling budgets
• Experience and achievement in meeting performance targets
• Communication / presentation skills - able to engage and communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Effective written / report writing skills.
• Computer literate for a range of software packages including word, excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to network and build effective and co-operative working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries
• Planning and organisational skills including development and implementing strategic service and business planning
• Judgement and analytical skills required to deal with clinical and non-clinical services
• Resilient, able to challenge as well as deal with challenge
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to negotiate and influence others.
• Able to manage conflict.
• Project management skills
• Establish visibility and credibility in equal measure across all localities.
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Political awareness

Personal Circumstances

Essential

• Time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
• Confidence, decisiveness, initiative and high self-motivation

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently across Cumbria.
• Participate in any on-call arrangement or shift system on site which is associated with this role, in order to fulfil the requirements of the base service and also the wider Trust. These arrangements may vary from time to time depending upon Trust requirements in the best interests in service delivery.
• Post holder will be expected to work across multiple sites

Desirable

• Driving licence

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).