Deputy Service Manager - #1099395

Main area

Plastic Surgery

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

196-COF10179-T

Employer

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type

NHS

Site

St Thomas Hospital

Town

London

Salary

£42,471 - £50,364 inc HCA

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

01/05/2024 23:59

Interview date

14/05/2024

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Duties and Responsibilities

Operational Performance Management

• Plan and oversee the day to day organisation of all administrative staff within the department, this will require working autonomously to understand and drive operating targets, budget controls, and relevant HR management.


• Plan and organise the administrative service within the department, setting the goals of the administrative service in order to fit in with the demands of the consultant’s timetables.


• Develop and write policies and standardised procedures within own work area.


• Ensure effective processes and procedures are in place to monitor and track performance against agreed targets within the service.


• Ensure that effective systems are in place to maintain service delivery in the event of staff absences


• Exercise delegated authority on behalf of the Service Manager, Clinical leads and Matrons to resolve day-to-day management issues within the service, organising and reallocating work where situations change due to variations to the work load and staffing availability.


• Ensure that all staff adhere to the appropriate legislation when dealing with patient material and that suitable filing and booking systems are effectively managed.


• Manage the analysis of data so the senior management team have access to timely and accurate information on all key performance indicators.


• Develop thorough understanding of all areas within the department including management of pathways and the use of clinical IT systems.


• Deputise for the Service Manager when required at departmental, internal Trust and external meetings.


• Responsible for resolution of day-to-day performance issues.


• Assist the Service Manager with day-to-day administrative tasks to support the clinical team, including leave management and rotas.


• Arrange and plan certain key meetings, taking accurate minutes when required.


• Support the management team by preparing presentations.


• Deal with telephone calls relating to the service, ensuring that patients and relatives are communicated with sensitively and effectively and issues are dealt with promptly and efficiently.


• Liaise with other departments and members of the Trust to support the smooth running and functioning of the department/service.

Management and Leadership

• Day to day managerial responsibility for all administrative and clerical staff supporting the service.


• Set objectives and review performance of service staff, identifying individual training and development needs and promote continued personal and professional development.


• Manage annual leave, sickness, disciplinary and performance issues in line with Trust policies and the effective delivery of service.


• Ensure all staff comply with relevant Trust policies and procedures.


• Anticipate staff shortages and problem areas and take action to minimise the impact of these on service delivery.


• Recruit and locally induct A&C staff in line with Trust policies and procedures.


• Oversee medical rotas at both junior and consultant level.

Quality, Risk and Governance

• Manage the implementation and overall management of office systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to ensure effective delivery of the administrative service.


• Support the monitoring of compliance with internal and external governance and best practice requirements with the medical secretarial services.


• Support conflict resolution from patients, staff, suppliers, other internal and external service providers and partner organisations in the Service.


• Delegated authority to undertake complaint investigation where appropriate.


• Delegated authority to resolve PALS issues and implement outcomes of root cause analyses, serious incident investigations and PALS issues.

Financial Management

• Manage the performance of the administrative support teams to ensure that the service meets its financial and operating targets.


• Manage the service budget, ensuring that expenditure is within agreed limits and escalating issues to the Service Manager.


• Lead delegated projects for the Service/Directorate to contribute to the achievement of cost improvement programmes.


• Ensure compliance with Trust standing financial instructions.
  

Strategy, change and service improvement

• Responsible for the design and implementation of audits in collaboration with the Service Manager.


• Undertake specific service improvement actions under supervision of the Service Manager.


• Support the delivery of agreed change and service improvement projects and initiatives.


• Provide support in the development and implementation of R&D education and training programmes within the Service.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust,  or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.  

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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