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Managing Director of Wiltshire Health and Care

Employer
Wiltshire Health and Care
Location
Wiltshire
Salary
circa £122,000pa
Closing date
4 Jan 2023

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MANAGING DIRECTOR 

Location: Wiltshire

Responsible to: The Chair of Wiltshire Health and Care

Grade/Band: VSM

Contract: We will consider a range of contract options depending on circumstances, from permanent contract to secondment.  The key requirement will be that the successful candidate is able to demonstrate their commitment to leading the team through the next phase of change.

Main Purpose of the Job:

To lead Wiltshire Health and Care, responsible for ensuring the delivery of operational and contractual standards, giving strategic direction and guidance to the Board to ensure the organisation achieves its strategic intent

Main Responsibilities and Duties:

  1. To direct the work and resources of Wiltshire Health and Care ensuring the recruitment and retention of the required numbers and types of well-motivated, trained and developed staff to ensure that it achieves its annual and five-year plans.
  2. Prepare an annual business plan for Operating Board sign off, monitor progress against the plan to ensure that Wiltshire Health and Care achieves its objectives as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible.
  3. Report, alongside the Chair, to the Members Board (the Members Board is made up of the Chairs and Chief Executives of the three acute trusts that formed Wiltshire Health and Care) ensuring the Members Board.
  4. Provide strategic advice and guidance to the Chair and the members of the Board, to keep them aware of developments within health care and to ensure that the appropriate policies are developed to meet Wiltshire Health and Care's strategic and contractual objectives and to comply with all relevant statutory and other regulations.
  5. Actively facilitate the development of Wiltshire Health and Care's strategic vision with the Board and the other forums and advisory groups within Wiltshire Health and Care
  6. Establish and maintain effective formal and informal working relationships with commissioners, partner organisations and other stakeholders to exchange information and views and to ensure that Wiltshire Health and Care is providing the appropriate range and quality of services.
  7. Visibly lead Wiltshire Health and Care and engage with patients and their representatives when required
  8. Develop strong collaborative working relationships and arrangements with other stakeholders within the Wiltshire health and care system supporting the transformation of health and care services to the people of Wiltshire.
  9. Develop and maintain best practice community services to ensure that Wiltshire Health and Care is able to deliver its strategic intent and longer term viability.
  10. Prepare, gain agreement, and monitor the implementation of the annual budget to ensure that budget targets are met for both revenue and capital expenditure. Identify and execute opportunities for course correction/efficiencies to ensure the financial viability of the LLP.
  11. Represent Wiltshire Health and Care in negotiations with commissioners, contractors and other external stakeholders to secure the most effective contract terms for Wiltshire Health and Care
  12. Develop and maintain strong and effective working relationships in particular with the Chair, board directors, staff and key stakeholders, role modelling the values and behaviours of the organisation.
  13. Ensure that clinical and corporate governance systems are in place and are sufficiently robust to enable Wiltshire Health and Care to achieve its objectives, identify and mitigate risk and to report on performance in accordance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
  14. Develop, promote and direct the implementation of equal opportunities duties in all aspects of Wiltshire Health and Care's work.
  15. Oversee the preparation of the Annual Report and Accounts of the partnership. Ensure their approval by the Board - subsequent to external audit assurances and Audit & Risk Committee scrutiny.
  16. Develop and direct the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure that the organisation complies with all health and safety and other statutory regulations whilst also adopting policies that appropriately deliver a robust control environment to safeguard the entity, it’s assets, colleagues and patients.
  17. The Managing Director will demonstrate and ensure high standards of probity and governance prevail and that Wiltshire Health and Care remains within the terms of its licence and its governance arrangements with other partners.
  18. Responsible for ensuring that Wiltshire Health and Care meets it statutory requirements and necessary registration and compliance with regulatory requirements

Responsibilities for People or Training:

  1. Contribute towards creating a climate therefore which empowerment and innovation flourishes and where individuals contribute to their full potential. Ensure all appraisals and mandatory training is undertaken.  Revising staff performance to ensure all staff contribute to their maximum potential. Manage all staffing issues proactively and within agreed policies and timescales, including performance, absence grievances etc. Significantly contribute to the advancement of practice, championing new roles and ways of working.

Other Factors:

Ability to drive and travel throughout Wiltshire and beyond; deal with distressed patients; providing professional support and guidance to staff and patients.  Regular VDU use and ability to concentrate on complex and demanding tasks, whilst taking the lead on governance in key critical areas.

Flexibility:

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances, in discussion with the post holder. This role profile is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only. The post holder will need to be flexible in developing the role with initial and on-going discussions with the designated manager.

Supplementary Information:

This job description should be read alongside the Supplementary Information provided on NHS Jobs for applicants and alongside the Employee Handbook for current staff members.

Safeguarding Statement:

All Wiltshire Health and Care Staff have a responsibility to safeguard and protect adults and children, which includes an understanding of relevant organisation and Local Safeguarding adults and children’s Boards policies and their application to practice. 

Information Governance:

As part of your role, you may be asked by your line manager to take on Information Asset Owner or Information Asset Administrator responsibilities for one or more ‘Information Assets’ within your service or department.  An Information Asset is any document, record, or system that contains personal identifiable data. Full details of this responsibility is set out in WHC’s Information Risk and Security Policy and the associated IAO and IAA handbook.  Training will be provided.

Salary and Closing Date for applications:

The salary for this role will be circa £122,000pa. Applications must be submitted by January 3rd 2022.

 

Managing Director – Person Specification

The following criteria will be assessed from information provided on your completed application form, during the shortlisting and assessment process, and by your referees.

 

Essential Criteria:

Education, Qualifications and Training

  • Graduate, preferably with a higher degree in a management discipline or a professional qualification

Experience & Knowledge

  • A proven record of success at Board level within a health, social care or comparable organisation. Significant experience of management of people and resources
  • A sound knowledge and understanding of community services and the developing nature of health care
  • A robust understanding of financial management and wider management principles and techniques A robust understanding of effective strategic risk management principles and techniques
  • Able to demonstrate leadership of successful significant service changes
  • A high level of commercial awareness

Skills

  • Exhibits the seven standards of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership
  • An ability to think strategically and to then translate that strategy into action
  • Political and presentational skills with an appreciation of the demands of conflicting interests and of meeting statutory requirements
  • A passion for delivering the best services to patients
  • A strong commitment to making service improvements and achieving high quality outcomes for patients
  • An ability to lead the development of a new organisational culture and management style
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Excellent verbal communication skills and the ability to use these to develop strong working relationships

Other Job-Related Requirements

The postholder must also comply with Regulation 5 of the Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) 2014 – the Fit and Proper Persons test. This requires that:

  • The individual is of good character,
  • The individual has the qualifications, competence, skills and experience which are necessary for the relevant office or position or the work for which they are employed,
  • The individual is able by reason of their health, after reasonable adjustments are made, of properly performing tasks which are intrinsic to the office or position for which they are appointed or to the work for  which they are employed, the individual has not been responsible for, been privy to, contributed to or facilitated any serious misconduct or mismanagement (whether unlawful or not) in the course of carrying on a regulated activity, and none of the grounds of unfitness specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4 apply to the individual. Refer to the CQC guidance found at:
  • Regulation 5: Fit and proper persons: directors - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)

     

     

     

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