JOB OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Service Manager to work with our highly motivated clinical and administrative teams to develop and manage services across our two-site Trust for a period 12 months maternity leave cover. Post holder will be responsible for two medicine areas across the ESTH footprint.
Operating as a member of the senior management team you will be actively involved in the development of care pathways that will improve the quality of services we are able to offer to our patients, including liaison with community services to maximise the benefits of integrated working.
Together with clinical teams you will be responsible for delivering all key performance and financial targets including relevant quality standards in areas managed where appropriate.
In view of the challenging financial environment throughout the healthcare sector and in line with our current recovery programmes in place, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate a level of creativity in their thinking, whilst being able to practically manage services at an operational level.
- This is a Maternity leave cover opportunity only -

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Knowledge of modernisation tools and techniques
• Evidence of project management
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

Post holder will be responsible for the Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Rheumatology services within the Medicine directorate.
A service manager has a pivotal role in conjunction with Medical and Nursing leads in the delivery of safe, efficient and effective clinical care.
The post holder will be expected to undertake activities such as working closely with clinicians in order to achieve optimal patient care, delivering safe and effective services, ensuring administrative pathway of care is managed effectively, to make decisions and work on projects to enhance care provided within services, and to promote and support delivery of access targets, financial targets and patient waiting times finding innovative ways to raise healthcare standards for all.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see attached job description to outline role and key responsibilities.
This role includes the achievement and management of operational performance and governance standards as well as managing and maintaining training and HR requirements of staff that are within the clinical directorate.