Divisional Director of Operations for SUWON

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for more details on the post.

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Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant field or equivalent level of management experience.
• Masters in a relevant subject (e.g. healthcare, management) or equivalent experience.
• MBA or post graduate management qualification

Desirable

• Evidence of further professional development activities in the past two years.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable professional higher level management experience across the full range of management functions: Financial management, Performance management, Information management, Workforce management and Strategic management.
• Substantial recent management experience, at a senior level, in a complex organisation.
• Experience of analysing, interpreting and reporting on information to identify and manage variances in performance and identifying solutions to identified problem/areas for improvement.
• Project management experience.
• Experience of business planning techniques and managing business processes.
• Extensive leadership and management experience.
• Track record of leading and managing teams through large-scale change in a complex organisation.

Desirable

• Experience of designing/ improving business systems & processes.

Knowledge

Essential

• General Management theory and practice, including quality, financial management, HR management and service/business development.
• Good understanding of the NHS and key policy issues that affect business performance.
• Good understanding of commissioning framework within the NHS. Change management/service improvement techniques.

Desirable

• Awareness of Strategic management processes and their application.

Skills/Personal Qualities

Essential

• First class interpersonal skills with ability to gain and sustain credibility with clinicians/managers.
• Able to present and received highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information.
• Highly skilled in influencing, persuading and negotiating with others in potentially hostile, distressing or emotive situations including the ability to deal with aggressive behaviour.
• Able to prioritise and manage the ongoing work of services and/or projects.
• Able to think strategically and develop and implement vision.
• Results orientated and able to deliver against deadlines.
• Excellent presentation skills, verbally and in writing.
• Proactive rather than reactive approach.
• Advanced keyboard skills.
• Able to work autonomously with minimal guidelines and set goals and standards for others.

Desirable

• Commercial acumen.
• Political awareness - ability to perceive impact of actions on the decisions and activity of others.

Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

Essential

• Desire to succeed and make a real impact on the quality of care and efficiency of services provided.
• Committed to achievement of overall Trust performance and willing to challenge practice/behaviours that undermine the need to work as one team within the Trust.
• Sets high standards and motivated to achieve these.
• Works at optimum level in a complex, pressurized environment and is motivated by stretching targets and achieving continuous improvement.
• Motivated by effective teamwork, with a desire to ensure that local and corporate priorities are not in conflict and that different professional groups work together effectively to achieve a common purpose.
• Committed to living the Trust's values, willing to inspire others to act in accordance with those values and motivated to use those values to drive business performance and service development.
• Comfortable in challenging traditional approaches and enjoys winning support for new ideas.

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).