Job summary
Join Us as Director - Trafford Elective HubManchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT)
Are you a dynamic, transformational leader ready to make a lasting impact on elective care? At Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), we are seeking an exceptional Director to lead our Trafford Elective Hub--a pioneering initiative that will shape the future of elective services across Greater Manchester.
About the RoleAs Director, you will form a key part of the hub's triumvirate leadership team alongside clinical and nursing leads. Reporting to the MFT's Chief Delivery Officer, you will provide strategic leadership and operational management of the hub. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the transformation of elective care pathways, drive cultural change, and deliver a service that is innovative, efficient, and truly patient-centred.
About YouYou will bring significant senior operational management experience within a complex healthcare environment and specifically within a surgical setting. Your collaborative leadership style and ability to drive transformation at scale will be crucial in delivering the vision for the Trafford Elective Hub.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement MFT's vision and strategy for the hub in collaboration with the Executive Directors and Clinical Group Chief Executives.
- Ensure the delivery of a high-quality, safe, and effective service that continually improves performance, productivity, and efficiency.
- Lead the transformational change required to establish the hub, including programme management, robust governance, and oversight of key workstreams.
- Develop and manage effective plans, governance systems, financial and performance arrangements to achieve ambitious targets.
- Collaborate with senior leaders across MFT, ensuring alignment of strategies and optimising opportunities for service integration and innovation.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a minimum of Masters Degree, equivalent post graduate qualification or equal and relevant senior level experience.
- Evidence of a demonstrable commitment to personal Continual Professional Development.
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant management and leadership development commensurate with the requirements of very senior posts.
Knowledge Skills, Requirements & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of working and contributing at a very senior level in a similarly complex organisation or system.
- A proven ability to deliver consistently to NHS standards of operational performance while preserving and promoting patient safety.
- A commitment to effective system working as well as organisational excellence.
- An established reputation and demonstrable successes at director/very senior level, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of operations in a large and complex NHS organisation.
- In depth knowledge of service and quality improvement methodologies and broad experience of successful implementation of improvement projects in a clinical or operational setting.
- Demonstrable experience of managing theatre services, including responsibility for day-to-day operations, performance, and patient safety.
- Experience of successful management of multiple stakeholders with competing interests and of operating in a complex 'political' environment.
- Experience of managing significant resources and budgets and a proven track record of delivering financial balance, sustainability and value for money while preserving and promoting patient safety.
- Experience of operational and capacity planning to meet organisational performance targets.
- Experience of establishing and applying robust performance management systems and accountability frameworks.
- Evidence of setting ambitious attainable targets and of leading an implementing innovative solutions, and complex change and modernisation programmes designed to improve quality and services within tight financial constraints.
- Having the ability to understand and accommodate the longer term or widespread implications of operational and tactical decisions.
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience at director/very senior level, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in large, complex non-NHS health related organisations.
Personal Atributes
Essential
- A commitment to excellence in all areas.
- Able to work with clinical colleagues to identify and manage critical issues and priorities.
- Proven influencing and negotiation skills, particularly across professional boundaries.
- Strong commercial and business acumen, understanding the impact of operational efficiencies on overall revenue performance.
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with professional groups and senior managers within the Hospital and across MFT.
- An ability to communicate openly and effectively to listen and to be approachable.
- The energy, resilience, stamina and drive required of a Director, with a proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against targets.
- A strong sense of the importance of the team promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Inspires others and leads by example.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a minimum of Masters Degree, equivalent post graduate qualification or equal and relevant senior level experience.
- Evidence of a demonstrable commitment to personal Continual Professional Development.
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant management and leadership development commensurate with the requirements of very senior posts.
Knowledge Skills, Requirements & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of working and contributing at a very senior level in a similarly complex organisation or system.
- A proven ability to deliver consistently to NHS standards of operational performance while preserving and promoting patient safety.
- A commitment to effective system working as well as organisational excellence.
- An established reputation and demonstrable successes at director/very senior level, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of operations in a large and complex NHS organisation.
- In depth knowledge of service and quality improvement methodologies and broad experience of successful implementation of improvement projects in a clinical or operational setting.
- Demonstrable experience of managing theatre services, including responsibility for day-to-day operations, performance, and patient safety.
- Experience of successful management of multiple stakeholders with competing interests and of operating in a complex 'political' environment.
- Experience of managing significant resources and budgets and a proven track record of delivering financial balance, sustainability and value for money while preserving and promoting patient safety.
- Experience of operational and capacity planning to meet organisational performance targets.
- Experience of establishing and applying robust performance management systems and accountability frameworks.
- Evidence of setting ambitious attainable targets and of leading an implementing innovative solutions, and complex change and modernisation programmes designed to improve quality and services within tight financial constraints.
- Having the ability to understand and accommodate the longer term or widespread implications of operational and tactical decisions.
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience at director/very senior level, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in large, complex non-NHS health related organisations.
Personal Atributes
Essential
- A commitment to excellence in all areas.
- Able to work with clinical colleagues to identify and manage critical issues and priorities.
- Proven influencing and negotiation skills, particularly across professional boundaries.
- Strong commercial and business acumen, understanding the impact of operational efficiencies on overall revenue performance.
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with professional groups and senior managers within the Hospital and across MFT.
- An ability to communicate openly and effectively to listen and to be approachable.
- The energy, resilience, stamina and drive required of a Director, with a proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against targets.
- A strong sense of the importance of the team promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Inspires others and leads by example.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
