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Job summary

Main area
Administration
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
323-AC2390-ED
Employer
Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St. Peter's Hospital
Town
Chertsey, Surrey
Salary
£52,963 - £59,360 pa inc. HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2024 23:59

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Service Manager, Woking Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC)

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust currently have a fantastic opportunity to join the Imaging management team based at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey.  

The role is a Service Manager position, for the new Woking Community Diagnostic Centre  (CDC) working alongside the Imaging and other Service Managers to provide  operational management for Imaging, phlebotomy, respiratory, cardiology, audio, anti-coag , all soon to be based at this CDC. The role is varied, challenging and with great opportunities to develop new skills, experience and knowledge.  

This opportunity also provides excellent development for someone wishing to progress within a senior operational management career. The ideal candidate would need to be proactive, able to problem solve and build strong working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. This position would suit someone with a ‘can-do’ and flexible attitude 

For further information please contact Alanna Marvin, Associate Director of Imaging on 07810757237

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities for this role are:

Day to day operational management of the services in the CDC
Support the delivery of strong performance against local and national KPIs
Evaluate service delivery against projected activity managing costs, resources in line with budget targets.

Support development and delivery of CDC treatment pathways, ensuring operating standards and performance metrics for each service and ensuring clinic capacity is fully and flexibly utilised.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

Please see the supporting links which you can find on the right-hand side of this job advert. There is guidance on how to make an application on NHS Jobs as well as more information about joining the ASPH Team

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job responsibilities
Successful candidates will have previous operational management experience, including financial, strategic, performance and Human Resources experience.  It is important to have the ability to communicate clearly and effectively both internally and externally and with all levels of staff, representing the Imaging and other service  teams at internal and external meetings

Please see the Job Description for further detail

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Post Graduate Diploma or Master’s level and/or equivalent experience
  • • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • • Project management experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Management experience in the acute sector
  • Operational Management
  • Experience of managing a team
  • Experience of delivering key access standards e.g. RTT/cancer/A&E performance
  • Experience of implementing service change to improve quality/efficiency/performance
  • Experience of working in the NHS
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in an Imaging department

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Trust vision, values and strategic objectives
  • Understanding of NHS performance measures
Desirable criteria
  • Awareness / knowledge of an Imaging department and associated Radiation Protection regulations

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of report writing and presenting skills, to include business cases, formal presentations and analysing and presenting complex data
  • Developing and implementing strategic plans at service level that enable the attainment of Divisional objectives
  • Full range of IT skills including the Microsoft Office package, spreadsheet analysis and PAS
  • Excellent communication skills across the organisation and with a wide range of staff with differing levels of responsibility and different
  • Ability to influence decision making with senior clinical staff
  • Ability to demonstrate sound judgement and act on own initiative
  • Experience in pathway design

Other requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel between Trust sites
  • Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service and the Trust
  • Ability to participate in Bronze and On call rotas

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alanna Marvin
Job title
Associate Director of Imaging
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01932 722793
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