Deputy Director of Elective Care

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Knowledge

  General Management theory and practice, including quality, financial management, HR management and service/business development.

• Knowledge

  Good understanding of the NHS and key policy issues that affect business performance.

• Knowledge

  Good understanding of commissioning framework within the NHS. Change management/service improvement techniques.

• Experience

  Demonstrable professional higher level management experience across the full range of management functions: Financial management, Performance management, Information management, Workforce management and Strategic management.

• Experience

  Substantial recent management experience, at a senior level, in a complex organisation.

• Experience

  Experience of analysing, interpreting and reporting on information to identify and manage variances in performance and identifying solutions to identified problem/areas for improvement.

• Experience

  Project management experience.

• Experience

  Experience of business planning techniques and managing business processes.

• Experience

  Extensive leadership and management experience.

• Experience

  Track record of leading and managing teams through large-scale change in a complex organisation.

• Qualifications

  Educated to degree level in relevant field or equivalent level of management experience.

• Qualifications

  MBA or post graduate management qualification

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  First class interpersonal skills with ability to gain and sustain credibility with clinicians/managers.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Able to present and received highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Highly skilled in influencing, persuading and negotiating with others in potentially hostile, distressing or emotive situations including the ability to deal with aggressive behaviour.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Able to prioritise and manage the ongoing work of services and/or projects.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Able to think strategically and develop and implement vision.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Results orientated and able to deliver against deadlines.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Excellent presentation skills, verbally and in writing.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Proactive rather than reactive approach.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Advanced keyboard skills.

• Skills/Personal Qualities

  Able to work autonomously with minimal guidelines and set goals and standards for others.

• Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

  Desire to succeed and make a real impact on the quality of care and efficiency of services provided.

• Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

  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.

• Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

  Sets high standards and motivated to achieve these.

• Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

  Works at optimum level in a complex, pressurized environment and is motivated by stretching targets and achieving continuous improvement.

• Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

  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.

• Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

  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.

• Leadership and Management Style and Aptitude

  Comfortable in challenging traditional approaches and enjoys winning support for new ideas.