Service Manager - General Surgery

Job summary

An exciting position has become available in the Surgery & Cancer Division at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Trust as Service Manager for General Surgery. The role is 22.5 hours per week, 12 months FTC or Secondment.

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, ambitious and talented individual to join the team. If you are keen to influence and drive patient experience, safety, performance and staff wellbeing then we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to operationally manage General Surgery, providing clear leadership, ensuring delivery against our performance goals. You will work closely with the Business Manager, Team Leaders, Clinicians and other staff across the Trust. You will provide leadership and expert advice to your teams to help deliver high standards of care and a quality, patient-centred service with an ethos around continuous improvement.

The post holder will need to have significant experience of operational service delivery. This is a challenging operational role, but represents an exciting opportunity for the right candidate.

The role represents an ideal opportunity for the post holder to further their skills and progress their career into a senior management role. You will need a clear and thorough understanding of NHS challenges and opportunities. Additionally, you will be confident in delivering operational initiatives to achieve patient access targets (RTT), and competent in complex data handling and IT skills.

You will benefit from dedicated support from the directorate senior management team in delivering your objectives.

About us

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.