Job summary
Are you ready to take your leadership career to the next level? At MFT, we are embedding an exciting new Operating Model, placing roles closest to patient care at the heart of decision-making. By creating clinically led, multidisciplinary leadership teams, we ensure decisions are informed by clinical expertise while maintaining the operational knowledge needed to deliver safe, successful services.
We are looking for experienced, forward-thinking leaders to support the introduction of these new ways of working. You will be well supported with a bespoke personal development plan and access to a range of development opportunities.
This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in decision-making, influence the future of patient services, and contribute to a Trust-wide movement embedding clinical leadership at every level.
We are current inviting applications for:
Role:Service Manager Urology / Service Manager (General Surgery)
Band: 8a
Time commitment: 37.5 hours
Location: Wythenshawe Hospital & Manchester Royal Infirmary (cross site working)
Main duties of the job
We are seeking applications from colleagues who are confident in their ability to:
Lead: Provide visible leadership supporting the General Manager in setting direction and ensuring colleagues feel guided and empowered in their roles
Govern: Contribute to governance by monitoring performance, ensuring safe processes are followed and escalating risks appropriately, helping the services meet its quality and compliance standards
Educate: Play a vital role in team development - sharing knowledge, supporting training and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and learning
Collaborate: Work closely with clinical, operational and administrative colleagues, fostering effective teamwork and strong relationships across the service and wider system.
Key Responsibilities:
Operational: Deliver and monitor key performance indicators at specialty level, including activity, performance targets as well as national local targets
Finance: Ensure budgetary management controls and monitoring is in place and in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions
Innovation: Contribute to the review of services to identify ways to improve quality, productivity, efficiency and patient experience
People Management: To inspire and motivate others by role modelling a values-led compassionate style of leadership behaviour
If this sounds like a role you would thrive in, we want to hear from you! Apply now to progress your career at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust 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 28,000 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
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant and significant experience
Desirable
- Managerial qualification equivalent to post-graduate diploma
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of project/programme management.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the clinical effectiveness, patient safety and quality agenda
Training and experience
Essential
- Operational management experience, which would usually have been gained through at least 3 years of working within the NHS at management/operational level
- Experience of supporting the development of staff fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Experience in operational improvement initiatives
Desirable
- Experience in workforce planning.
- Experience in pathway redesign
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to present highly complex and emotive information clearly and openly with staff.
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and present in a clear format
- Management of budgets and contributing to VfP
- Negotiating and influencing skills.
- Ability to make calm and rational decisions in the face of adversity
Desirable
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture.
Attributes
Essential
- Honest.
- Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Capacity to work with clinicians and staff at all levels.
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
- Inspires others and leads by example
Other
Essential
- Mobility to travel across sites.
- Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation.
- Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision, a can do attitude and is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities against competing agendas.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant and significant experience
Desirable
- Managerial qualification equivalent to post-graduate diploma
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of project/programme management.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the clinical effectiveness, patient safety and quality agenda
Training and experience
Essential
- Operational management experience, which would usually have been gained through at least 3 years of working within the NHS at management/operational level
- Experience of supporting the development of staff fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Experience in operational improvement initiatives
Desirable
- Experience in workforce planning.
- Experience in pathway redesign
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to present highly complex and emotive information clearly and openly with staff.
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and present in a clear format
- Management of budgets and contributing to VfP
- Negotiating and influencing skills.
- Ability to make calm and rational decisions in the face of adversity
Desirable
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture.
Attributes
Essential
- Honest.
- Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Capacity to work with clinicians and staff at all levels.
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
- Inspires others and leads by example
Other
Essential
- Mobility to travel across sites.
- Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation.
- Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision, a can do attitude and is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities against competing agendas.
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).
