Job summary
Closing Date: 21.07.25
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 22.07.25
Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 28.07.25
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the MSK & Therapies Clinical Services Unit (CSU) asDeputy General Manager on a 6-month secondment.
Working closely with the General Manager and the CSU Triumvirate, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, effective, and high-quality delivery of services across the CSU. This includes supporting the achievement of operational targets in access, finance, and quality, while driving service efficiency and patient-centred care.
You will:
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Assist in delivering responsive, innovative, and high-standard services aligned with Trust strategy
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Support and represent the General Manager and the CSU across Trust-wide forums
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Work collaboratively with clinical teams to maintain clinical safety, service quality, and business integrity
This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to gain strategic management experience in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
For informal enquiries, please contact: Tom White, General Manager, tom.white@bthft.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
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Support the General Manager in achieving all performance targets, developing and implementing sustainable improvements in collaboration with clinical and managerial teams across the organisation.
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Lead on the operational delivery of services, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and high-quality patient care.
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Drive and manage change initiatives to enhance service provision and meet evolving patient and system needs.
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Influence strategic development within the MSK & Therapies portfolio, working closely with the Clinical Director, General Manager, and Deputy Director of Nursing.
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Take responsibility for ensuring the CSU meets all local and national performance objectives and standards.
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Oversee the management of key resources--including staff, estates, and budgets--as delegated by the General Manager.
About us
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to work with minimal supervision and have significant autonomy in the delivery of the above and be responsible for his/her professional actions.
The post holder will hold sole responsibility for a range of duties and services, organising their own workload and working within established policies, procedures and guidelines, as agreed with the General Manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to work with minimal supervision and have significant autonomy in the delivery of the above and be responsible for his/her professional actions.
The post holder will hold sole responsibility for a range of duties and services, organising their own workload and working within established policies, procedures and guidelines, as agreed with the General Manager.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a healthcare environment
- Proven track record of achieving set targets.
- Experience and understanding of the modernisation agenda and the opportunities for redesigning services.
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of current issues/themes affecting the NHS locally and nationally
- Experience of managing organisational change
- Experience in report writing and delivering presentations, to formal presentations.
- Experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues.
- Budget management experience, including reducing costs/ efficiency gains, monitoring and determining corrective action.
Desirable
- Experience of working across networks, with wide ranging stakeholders.
- Experience of best practice process improvement techniques across a range of sectors.
Skills
Essential
- Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of staff/managers/clinicians and external stakeholders
- The ability to deal with complex issues in a methodical and logical approach
- Ability to work pro-actively and cooperatively with senior management and clinical staff
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
Desirable
- Understanding of recommendations from Francis, Keogh and other patient experience and quality of care directives and measures.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree and/or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Master's level degree or equivalent qualification or knowledge/experience
- Project management experience, Prince 2 or other project management qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a healthcare environment
- Proven track record of achieving set targets.
- Experience and understanding of the modernisation agenda and the opportunities for redesigning services.
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of current issues/themes affecting the NHS locally and nationally
- Experience of managing organisational change
- Experience in report writing and delivering presentations, to formal presentations.
- Experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues.
- Budget management experience, including reducing costs/ efficiency gains, monitoring and determining corrective action.
Desirable
- Experience of working across networks, with wide ranging stakeholders.
- Experience of best practice process improvement techniques across a range of sectors.
Skills
Essential
- Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of staff/managers/clinicians and external stakeholders
- The ability to deal with complex issues in a methodical and logical approach
- Ability to work pro-actively and cooperatively with senior management and clinical staff
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
Desirable
- Understanding of recommendations from Francis, Keogh and other patient experience and quality of care directives and measures.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree and/or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Master's level degree or equivalent qualification or knowledge/experience
- Project management experience, Prince 2 or other project management qualification
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).
