General Manager Women's Health

Job overview

To support the Divisional Director of Operations, W&C on both an operational and strategic basis, to deliver the Service improvement, integration, projects, strategic work and operational delivery across women’s health services within the Division of Women & Children’s Services (W&C).

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to function as part of the senior management team for W&C Division and will participate on the Trust’s Senior Management on-call rota, as well as deputising for the DDO W&C.

This is two year fixed term role to support both the day to day functioning of the WH services and support the operational impact of any Trust Board decision to decant services from the WH building at St Helier whilst building improvements are undertaken.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Working closely with the Divisional Quad (DDO, Divisional Medical Director, Directors of Nursing & Midwifery)), to meet key performance indicators and maintain financial control.
• Working closely with clinicians in order to achieve optimal decisions for overall patient care.
• Building processes around patients and working with patients and carers as partners in the delivery of excellent healthcare.
• In the interests of patient care, supporting the principle of treatment as close to the patient’s home as possible.
• Ensuring that the decisions taken are fully informed and properly balanced, taking account of collective as well as individual need, and the requirement to live within available resources.
• Genuinely promoting and supporting the delivery of national and local healthcare standards as one of the ways of raising healthcare standards for all.
• Wherever possible, seeking to set higher local targets for delivery of healthcare than are prescribed nationally.
• Always comparing to high performing organisations to ensure continuous learning from others.
• Supporting, involving and developing staff, whilst requiring delivery and performance to high standards.
• Contributing to the partnerships within the community, with health, social care, academic partners and major business, amongst others.

Core Responsibilities

• Ensuring quality of services to patients, visitors and staff, including management of clinical governance, healthcare standards and risk.
• Maximising delivery of operational and performance management standards (including cancer, RTT and diagnostic standards) and to develop and deliver recovery plans where performance standards are not being met.
• Optimising resource management
• Planning, marketing and developing services
• Managing capacity and operational planning
• Minimising boundaries between services, both within and outside the division
• Acting as a Deputy to the DDO W&C.
• To work closely with information staff to ensure that any new systems developed meet with local reporting requirements and that their use is embedded in working practices.
• Working with the DDO to ensure safe transfer of women’s health services should the board agree that a decant is needed from the St Helier site to support building improvements .

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.