Job summary
Selection date: Tuesday 04 February 2025
Are you an inspirational, ambitious senior leader with a vision and passion for providing excellent, empowering and integrated community healthcare services for adults?
Newcastle Hospitals has an ambition to strengthen and develop our community services across the city of Newcastle upon Tyne so that we can provide effective and integrated services which support our local population to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
It is a critical time for our organisation as we strengthen and improve our operational services so that we can best serve our population across the North East and beyond. We now have a vacancy for a Director of Community Services.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced leader to steer the transformation of our services and develop our shared local vision and strategy for healthcare services in the city so that we can deliver the highest quality services. We are looking for someone who can quickly build trusting and mutually beneficial relationships with our key partners including our local GP Federation, Primary Care Network and Newcastle City Council. You will also be able to work closely with our communities as we develop care pathways to ensure that the expertise of patient, families and community and voluntary sector partners is embraced and incorporated into our delivery.
This is an innovative new role, and you will be a key officer supporting our response to the NHS strategic shift - moving from 'hospital to community'.
About us
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospital
o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
o Newcastle Dental Hospital
o Newcastle Fertility Centre
o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
o Northern Genetics Service
o Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience of adult community services as the role will be accountable for the delivery of high-quality patient care, clinical governance, patient safety, clinical quality, and good financial management. You will be able to balance the need for our services to have a clear identity and focus, with working in an integrated and coordinated way with partners to meet patients holistic needs.
The organisation like the wider NHS, has faced unprecedented challenges over the last five years, including increasing demand and a changing financial model. We can expect that the next 5 years are going to be no less challenging, as we seek to achieve NHS performance standards and moving towards the key shifts for the NHS.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by email and will be required to complete online psychometric tools and participate in a psychometric assessment as part of the selection process. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience of adult community services as the role will be accountable for the delivery of high-quality patient care, clinical governance, patient safety, clinical quality, and good financial management. You will be able to balance the need for our services to have a clear identity and focus, with working in an integrated and coordinated way with partners to meet patients holistic needs.
The organisation like the wider NHS, has faced unprecedented challenges over the last five years, including increasing demand and a changing financial model. We can expect that the next 5 years are going to be no less challenging, as we seek to achieve NHS performance standards and moving towards the key shifts for the NHS.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by email and will be required to complete online psychometric tools and participate in a psychometric assessment as part of the selection process. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree level education supplemented by post graduate study and management to doctorate level or equivalent level experience.
Knowledge & experience
Essential
- Successful track record at a senior management level in a complex NHS environment.
- Significant operational experience at senior manager level Including responsibility for strategic planning, financial management, performance management, information systems and staff management for community services
- Experience of working with multiple organisations to achieve a shared vision.
- Proven track record of delivery against the performance agenda
- Highly developed understanding of health service issues.
- In depth knowledge of the NHS and the recent reforms.
- Good knowledge of NHS information systems, data sources and benchmarking techniques.
- Successful track record of achievement in the NHS and detailed knowledge of NHS operational management, strategy and national policy content.
- Demonstrable experience of business and corporate planning and production of comprehensive and highly complex business cases.
- Demonstrable success in delivering large scale change and performance with and through management and clinical teams
Desirable
- Demonstrable evidence in delivering on large scale change projects
- Knowledge and demonstrable experience of tools and techniques for service improvement and change management.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Sound theoretical and practical understanding of project management processes, procedures and skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Ability to work autonomously, with creativity, drive and flexibility.
- Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple projects to tight deadlines
- IT literacy, particularly word processing and spreadsheet use
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree level education supplemented by post graduate study and management to doctorate level or equivalent level experience.
Knowledge & experience
Essential
- Successful track record at a senior management level in a complex NHS environment.
- Significant operational experience at senior manager level Including responsibility for strategic planning, financial management, performance management, information systems and staff management for community services
- Experience of working with multiple organisations to achieve a shared vision.
- Proven track record of delivery against the performance agenda
- Highly developed understanding of health service issues.
- In depth knowledge of the NHS and the recent reforms.
- Good knowledge of NHS information systems, data sources and benchmarking techniques.
- Successful track record of achievement in the NHS and detailed knowledge of NHS operational management, strategy and national policy content.
- Demonstrable experience of business and corporate planning and production of comprehensive and highly complex business cases.
- Demonstrable success in delivering large scale change and performance with and through management and clinical teams
Desirable
- Demonstrable evidence in delivering on large scale change projects
- Knowledge and demonstrable experience of tools and techniques for service improvement and change management.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Sound theoretical and practical understanding of project management processes, procedures and skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Ability to work autonomously, with creativity, drive and flexibility.
- Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple projects to tight deadlines
- IT literacy, particularly word processing and spreadsheet use
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).
