Band 8b General Manager - Acute and Emergency Medicine

Essential

• *GCSE/O Level -- English and Maths Grade C or equivalent
• *Educated to degree level or equivalent
• *Masters level qualification in a management subject, or equivalent relevant experience.

Essential

• *Substantial experience in a senior managerial and leadership role within an acute healthcare setting which is commensurate with the complexity and size of the allocated area of responsibility.
• *Knowledge and experience of leading significant change to patient services, delivering tangible and sustained improvements.
• *Experience of developing and maintaining active partnerships with stakeholders in the development of services.
• *Experience of improvement measurement systems and understanding of the role of measurement in performance improvement.
• *Experience of directly line managing and providing strategic leadership to large numbers of specialist staff/multidisciplinary service teams ranging from bands 3 -- 7.
• *Experience of managing individual and team performance through the setting of objectives, PDPs, and appraisals.
• *Experience of application of recruitment strategies and workforce development including undertaking skill mix reviews and succession planning.
• *Experience of using service redesign methodology
• *Has a highly developed understanding of the changing NHS environment and its impact on service provision and staff.
• *Impact -- uses a variety of methods to gain support for ideas, strategies, and values.
• *Understanding of how to use technology to support delivery of improvements to services.
• *Application of absence management, sickness, disciplinary and grievance policies in accordance with UHB HR policies
• *Uses technical, non-verbal, and visual aids effectively.

Essential

• *Organisational skills -- able to deliver objectives within an agreed timeframe.
• *Leadership -- highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate, and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the Trust's and assigned speciality's expectations.
• *Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial teams in the delivery of performance targets, service delivery and change programmes.
• *Strategic and business planning -- able to think and plan strategically, tactically, and creatively and gain agreement to relevant plans.
• *Analysis -- proven numeric and analytical skills.
• *Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
• *Communication --relates to and communicates with all levels of staff.
• *Able to prioritise work in the face of competing demands.
• *Strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
• *Able to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create conditions for successful partnership working.
• *Extensive knowledge of practice and policy across a broad range of financial responsibilities including the management of budgetary expenditure up to £15m
• *Presentation skills -- presents concepts and ideas clearly so that others understand what is being communicated.
• *Political acumen.
• *Self-confidence -- states own position on issues; unhesitatingly takes decisions when required within area of authority and commits self and others accordingly.
• *Flexibility -- adapts to ensure achievement of objectives within constantly changing situations and environments.
• *Self-motivated -- possesses high internal work standards, sets stretching yet attainable goals; wants to do things better and to measure progress against targets.
• *Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role.
• *Commitment to ongoing life-long learning and personal development.
• *Motivation -- driven by a genuine interest and concern for the quality and appropriateness of patient services.
• *Flexibility -- identifies feasible alternative options in planning and decision making, holds different options in focus simultaneously and evaluates their relative pros and cons.