Finegreen Featured Job of the Week - Divisional General Manager – Acute and Emergency Medicine, London

• Specialism: Operational Management
• Salary: £600-£700 per day
• Job Type: Interim
• Location: London
• Reference:  SS/16088

An Acute Trust based in London is currently looking to recruit a Divisional General Manager for Acute and Emergency Medicine for a period of 4 months.

*required from early December*

Key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Divisional Director, Clinical Directors and Heads of Nursing in setting the division’s clinical strategy in conjunction with the Executive Team members responsible for strategy and business development, with external stakeholders, with local and national networks and with other divisions in areas of joint interest.  Ensure the strategy is designed to include the Better Care Fund for each of the boroughs, and to meet the London Quality Standards insofar as these are commissioned.
• To represent the Trust at the System Resilience Group and ensure planning emergency pathways across acute and community interfaces, and to meet ‘surge’ demands, is robust. 
• To represent the trust on relevant multiagency committees and work collaboratively with local CCGs and Boroughs to ensure delivery of schemes such as those underpinning the Better Care Fund.
• To ensure communication with referrers, especially Primary Care is robust, in particular ensuring timely, high quality electronic discharge summaries are provided.
• To put in place arrangements to manage complaints and serious incident investigations in a timely way with the active involvement of the relevant clinical staff.
• To use all appropriate means to ensure that patients are actively consulted on current service delivery and future plans.
• To make sure that safety, quality and patient experience are properly reflected in the division’s governance arrangements, in the performance scorecard, performance management processes and in the review of the performance of individual members of staff.
• Work independently to assess clinical and non-clinical situations requiring immediate action and make decisions/take appropriate action when required to ensure smooth running of the site and/or to reduce emergent risks.
• To arrange for the investigation of serious incidents and implementation of action points emerging from the reports.

A successful candidate will have:

• Post graduate training in Business or NHS Management in progress or completed.
• Formal education to first degree level or equivalent ability.
• Masters degree or equivalent ability.
• Safeguarding at level 2
• Minimum 5 years operational management at band 8 in an acute NHS Trust or community services, including no less than 3 years senior level experience at minimum band 8C in acute services (including Emergency Department).
• Experience of managing safeguarding issues.
• Management of change which is complex in nature and has divisional or organisational impact.
• Evidence of successful delivery of cost improvement programmes.
• Experience of managing serious incidents and patient complaints.

If you have the skills, experience and personal attributes outlined above and would like to find out more or apply for this exciting and challenging opportunity, please visit here