Job summary
The Division of Surgery is one of six clinical Divisions within University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. The Division consists of services delivered at the Bristol Eye Hospital (BEH), Bristol Dental Hospital (BDH), the acute surgical services, critical care and theatres on the main Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) site and integrated surgical services at Weston General Hospital.
This post manages Bristol Dental Hospital and associated specialties with management responsibility for their operational, financial and performance management. The post holder leads a team of managers to work effectively with respective clinical and nursing leads for the services in sustaining elective recovery and delivering future ambition.
The post reports into and deputises for the Divisional Director as appropriate and is responsible for ensuring that all services are focused on ensuring the most effective and efficient use of resources to deliver a high-quality service that achieves and exceeds the required performance targets.
The post holder will be required to participate in the daily site and on-call rota.
Main duties of the job
The post holds management responsibility for the operational and performance management of the Division, on behalf of the Divisional Director. This post is responsible for ensuring that all services are focussed on ensuring the most effective and efficient use of resources to deliver a high-quality service that achieves and exceeds the required performance targets.
There is also an explicit requirement for this post holder to deputise for the Divisional Director, across all service lines in the Division, and to act as the divisional and cross trust lead for issues and projects, as required, in agreement with the Divisional Director and Clinical Chair.
The post holder will work closely with the divisional management team to ensure the delivery of effective and high-quality clinical services and the achievement of both strategic objectives and performance targets. As part of the Division's management team, the post holder will have responsibility for the leading on the division's capital programme.
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to provide clear direction on modernisation and improvement of patient services, working with the multi-disciplinary team. They will also be expected to ensure that the services provided are responsive to patient needs, that planning of services involving patients and users, and reflect the diverse population served.
The post holder will be expected to provide effective leadership, and to support efforts to recruit and retain high quality staff, provide effective appraisal and team working and strong staff involvement in decision making within the sphere of responsibility.
The post holder will be accountable for the delivery of income and expenditure targets in areas of responsibility. This includes ensuring that the contracting process for these areas is managed to optimise service delivery and profitability for these areas. It also includes the on-going management of the delivery of these income targets against trajectory and immediate intervention to ensure income recovery he post holder will hold specific responsibility for the delivery of efficiency and savings within their allocated service areas.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to provide clear direction on modernisation and improvement of patient services, working with the multi-disciplinary team. They will also be expected to ensure that the services provided are responsive to patient needs, that planning of services involving patients and users, and reflect the diverse population served.
The post holder will be expected to provide effective leadership, and to support efforts to recruit and retain high quality staff, provide effective appraisal and team working and strong staff involvement in decision making within the sphere of responsibility.
The post holder will be accountable for the delivery of income and expenditure targets in areas of responsibility. This includes ensuring that the contracting process for these areas is managed to optimise service delivery and profitability for these areas. It also includes the on-going management of the delivery of these income targets against trajectory and immediate intervention to ensure income recovery he post holder will hold specific responsibility for the delivery of efficiency and savings within their allocated service areas.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels and with complex and diverse clinical teams
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Shown ability to influencing and negotiating in multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to quickly establish credibility with senior clinical staff and maintain good working relationships
- Ability to empower others through leadership style
- Proven ability to lead delivery of complex capacity plans and modelling
- Knowledge of complex workforce and HR issues, including experience of disciplinary processes, including sitting on and chairing panels
- In depth knowledge of local and national performance delivery framework and the successful delivery of performance targets. Including all ED, cancer, diagnostic and 18 week standards
- Knowledge of the application of the Monitor compliance framework and implications for Trusts and Divisions
- Ability to act independently and manage complex services autonomously and to influence others who act in autonomous management positions
- Ability to work under own initiative and act with authority.
- Ability to implement policies and act in both a strategic and operational capacity
- Ability to work effectively and to lead others to work effectively in a complex and diverse operational environment and to deliver under pressure, at pace and against tight deadlines
- A significant understanding of elective surgical patient flow and proven ability to act with credibility with clinical staff to lead the successful delivery of these pathways
- A significant understanding of emergency and non-elective surgical patient flow and proven ability to act with credibility with clinical staff, often under pressure to lead the successful delivery of these pathways
- Knowledge of Trust legislation and requirements of corporate governance
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to change style as required
- Proven ability to prepare papers for Divisional Board and Trust level meetings as required
- Well-developed listening and negotiating skills, with complex audiences in diverse environments.
- Proven ability to employ tact, sensitivity and diplomacy when required
Desirable
- Knowledge of critical care and issues affecting flow through theatres and critical care
- Knowledge of improvement pathways associated with surgical pathways, including Enhanced Recovery and Day of Surgery Admission
- Knowledge of theatre improvement programmes, such as the Productive Operating Theatre.
- Knowledge of decontamination agenda.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing complex services across multiple sites
- Demonstrable experience of managing the delivery of major capital schemes.
- Demonstrable experience of managing clinical service change, including the transfer of services across sites/Trusts
- Experience of leading capacity planning and modelling.
- Experience of leading the development of operational and strategic plans for the development and delivery of services, including experience of leading on sections of the OPP process
- Experience of leading the development of capital and revenue business cases and cases, both internally and externally, for the development of services
- Experience of working in collaboration with other acute and community providers and commissioners
- Significant experience of working with commissioning processes and understanding of new commissioning landscape
- Significant experience of leading the planning and delivery of clinical activity against contracted volumes, across multiple work types and specialties.
- Significant experience of leading the planning and delivery of clinical activity against contracted volumes, across multiple work types and specialties
- Experience of managing significant clinical budgets, of £40m+.
- Experience of delivering CRES and productivity savings
- Awareness of national NHS policy, local health community issues, the national performance management framework and national initiatives for achieving improved performance targets
- Experience of leading transformation and service improvement projects
- Experience of leading on daily patient flow issues
Desirable
- Relevant and equivalent managerial experience including managing services over £40m in value and 100+ in terms of bed base.
- Specific experience (4 years +) of managing surgical specialties
- Experience of working in another clinical division, i.e. medicine
- Direct experience of managing endoscopy and screening services
- Specific experience (4 years +) of managing theatres, anaesthesia and critical care services. .
- Experience of leading theatre improvement and productivity programmes
- Experience of leading the on behalf of a division, the performance management agenda. Including experience of leading PTL meetings, holding specially ADM/POMs to account for delivery of performance targets against all national and local standards, including 18 weeks, cancer standards and diagnostics.
- Experience of leading on behalf of a division, the reporting, monitoring and escalation of any issues relating to performance within the division.
- Experience of managing community services and remote hospital sites
- Experience of managing teams
- Experience of reporting at executive level meetings, including Performance and Finance Reviews.
- Experience of managing both elective and emergency services, with experience of directly managing trauma services
- Experience of leading business continuity on behalf of a division
- Experience of leading on non-pay and procurement issues
- Experience of leading the development, management and delivery of CQUINS2 and BPT pathways
- Experience of working with CSSD and Decontamination issues
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Previous experience in managing large and complex clinical services, including experience of managing theatres, surgical and medical specialties
- Evidence of on-going management training and proactive approach to professional and leadership development
- Master Level qualification or equivalent (preferably in healthcare management).
Aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to manage self and exhibit skills, including self-awareness, self-management and drive for improvement
- Analytical
- Political acumen
- Confident and approachable style
- Credible with staff at all levels
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Work on own initiative
- Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Commitment to NHS
- Proven ability to manage senior staff
- Proven ability to take leadership across the division for significant areas of responsibility on behalf of the divisional manager
- Proven ability to deputise for the divisional Director as required
- Emotional intelligence and resilience
- Significant resilience when working under pressure and proven ability to lead and support others in this environment.
- Ability to represent the division and both internal and external senior meetings.
- Ability to represent the division and both internal and external senior meetings
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels and with complex and diverse clinical teams
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Shown ability to influencing and negotiating in multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to quickly establish credibility with senior clinical staff and maintain good working relationships
- Ability to empower others through leadership style
- Proven ability to lead delivery of complex capacity plans and modelling
- Knowledge of complex workforce and HR issues, including experience of disciplinary processes, including sitting on and chairing panels
- In depth knowledge of local and national performance delivery framework and the successful delivery of performance targets. Including all ED, cancer, diagnostic and 18 week standards
- Knowledge of the application of the Monitor compliance framework and implications for Trusts and Divisions
- Ability to act independently and manage complex services autonomously and to influence others who act in autonomous management positions
- Ability to work under own initiative and act with authority.
- Ability to implement policies and act in both a strategic and operational capacity
- Ability to work effectively and to lead others to work effectively in a complex and diverse operational environment and to deliver under pressure, at pace and against tight deadlines
- A significant understanding of elective surgical patient flow and proven ability to act with credibility with clinical staff to lead the successful delivery of these pathways
- A significant understanding of emergency and non-elective surgical patient flow and proven ability to act with credibility with clinical staff, often under pressure to lead the successful delivery of these pathways
- Knowledge of Trust legislation and requirements of corporate governance
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to change style as required
- Proven ability to prepare papers for Divisional Board and Trust level meetings as required
- Well-developed listening and negotiating skills, with complex audiences in diverse environments.
- Proven ability to employ tact, sensitivity and diplomacy when required
Desirable
- Knowledge of critical care and issues affecting flow through theatres and critical care
- Knowledge of improvement pathways associated with surgical pathways, including Enhanced Recovery and Day of Surgery Admission
- Knowledge of theatre improvement programmes, such as the Productive Operating Theatre.
- Knowledge of decontamination agenda.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing complex services across multiple sites
- Demonstrable experience of managing the delivery of major capital schemes.
- Demonstrable experience of managing clinical service change, including the transfer of services across sites/Trusts
- Experience of leading capacity planning and modelling.
- Experience of leading the development of operational and strategic plans for the development and delivery of services, including experience of leading on sections of the OPP process
- Experience of leading the development of capital and revenue business cases and cases, both internally and externally, for the development of services
- Experience of working in collaboration with other acute and community providers and commissioners
- Significant experience of working with commissioning processes and understanding of new commissioning landscape
- Significant experience of leading the planning and delivery of clinical activity against contracted volumes, across multiple work types and specialties.
- Significant experience of leading the planning and delivery of clinical activity against contracted volumes, across multiple work types and specialties
- Experience of managing significant clinical budgets, of £40m+.
- Experience of delivering CRES and productivity savings
- Awareness of national NHS policy, local health community issues, the national performance management framework and national initiatives for achieving improved performance targets
- Experience of leading transformation and service improvement projects
- Experience of leading on daily patient flow issues
Desirable
- Relevant and equivalent managerial experience including managing services over £40m in value and 100+ in terms of bed base.
- Specific experience (4 years +) of managing surgical specialties
- Experience of working in another clinical division, i.e. medicine
- Direct experience of managing endoscopy and screening services
- Specific experience (4 years +) of managing theatres, anaesthesia and critical care services. .
- Experience of leading theatre improvement and productivity programmes
- Experience of leading the on behalf of a division, the performance management agenda. Including experience of leading PTL meetings, holding specially ADM/POMs to account for delivery of performance targets against all national and local standards, including 18 weeks, cancer standards and diagnostics.
- Experience of leading on behalf of a division, the reporting, monitoring and escalation of any issues relating to performance within the division.
- Experience of managing community services and remote hospital sites
- Experience of managing teams
- Experience of reporting at executive level meetings, including Performance and Finance Reviews.
- Experience of managing both elective and emergency services, with experience of directly managing trauma services
- Experience of leading business continuity on behalf of a division
- Experience of leading on non-pay and procurement issues
- Experience of leading the development, management and delivery of CQUINS2 and BPT pathways
- Experience of working with CSSD and Decontamination issues
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Previous experience in managing large and complex clinical services, including experience of managing theatres, surgical and medical specialties
- Evidence of on-going management training and proactive approach to professional and leadership development
- Master Level qualification or equivalent (preferably in healthcare management).
Aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to manage self and exhibit skills, including self-awareness, self-management and drive for improvement
- Analytical
- Political acumen
- Confident and approachable style
- Credible with staff at all levels
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Work on own initiative
- Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Commitment to NHS
- Proven ability to manage senior staff
- Proven ability to take leadership across the division for significant areas of responsibility on behalf of the divisional manager
- Proven ability to deputise for the divisional Director as required
- Emotional intelligence and resilience
- Significant resilience when working under pressure and proven ability to lead and support others in this environment.
- Ability to represent the division and both internal and external senior meetings.
- Ability to represent the division and both internal and external senior meetings
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).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Address
Bristol Dental Hospital
Lowe Maudlin Street
Bristol
BS2 1LY
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
