Do you…..

• Want to make a real difference in your community?
• Want to ensure people in the Derby City area have high quality, accessible, local services?
• Want to work with a team who are innovative, energetic, positive and love driving change?

Are you….

• Proactive and self-motivated?
• Highly experienced in leading change across pathways and across multiple organisations?
• Innovative and creative?

The NHS continues to experience unprecedented challenges. Challenges provide exciting opportunities for those of us who embrace change. Working closely with all service areas within UHDB, as well as system partners, we are improving the way we deliver clinical and non-clinical services across our organisation and community.

In line with national guidance, we are currently transforming our community sites of Sir Robert Peel, Samuel Johnson and London Road community hospitals towards our ambition to provide integrated community care hubs. You will be central in developing a long term community vision for our Derby City sites. You will be working with a wide range of people, to ensure that we utilise our community hospital sites in the best way possible for our patients and public.

We are looking for someone with strong experience in both developing and leading multi-disciplinary and multi-partner projects and seeing them through to implementation and evaluation. The successful candidate will also have robust skills in bringing stakeholders together and delivering through others. The ability to learn fast, be resourceful, and adjust in sometimes difficult environments at pace is essential. 

The Community Hospitals site managers are important roles within the Community Services team. The post holder will be responsible for delivering an extensive portfolio of programmes across their community site to deliver high quality, patient centred services.

 Specifically, they will be expected to:

• Engage, facilitate and support clinical and corporate teams to drive forward the trusts Community Hospitals strategy and programme.
• Engage with the local wider health system to drive forward the trusts community hospitals strategy and programme.
• Provide leadership, organisation and coordination to support the community hospital programme and local teams.
• Be a single point of contact for external and internal colleagues regarding the site and all aspects of use and development of the site. Ensure all projects are delivered on time and within budget and quality parameters.
• Support the trust business units and divisions to transform and integrate community services to deliver high quality, patient-centred care with optimal use of human and financial resources.
• Work with the business units to develop robust key performance indicators to track improvements, activity and innovations and to ensure benefit realisation across quality, people, performance and financial domains.
• Engage with the trust improvement team as appropriate to ensure that the programmes of work follow the trust improvement practice approach.
• Contribute to the strategic direction both internally and across the system regarding community services.
• Deputise for the Lead Community Services.

Strong, visible leadership is an essential requirement of the role.

If you have the drive and determination to work within our dynamic and changing department we would like to hear from you.

Working for your organisation

Key facts about our Trust:

• Every day our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients
• We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust – over 3,300 per week
• An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day – the 6th largest in the country Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients every day
• We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
• We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
• We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day
• We employ 12,000 staff across our 5 hospital sites
• We have a Director of Allied Health Professionals who is committed to provide leadership, progression and direction to AHPs

Closing date of applications: 17 May 2021

Interview date: 25 May 2021

For further details / informal visits contact:

Fran Smith, General Manager

Email: Fran.Smith@nhs.net

Telephone: 07393 759350