The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Assistant Directorate Manager
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Assistant Directorate Manager
The Assistant Directorate Manager will support the Directorate Manager in the operational leadership and delivery of Adult Community Services, with a clear focus on enabling the strategic shift from acute to community-based care. The role will support the development and delivery of services that promote care closer to home, reduce avoidable hospital admissions, and enable timely discharge from acute settings.
- Working closely with clinical leaders, corporate teams, and system partners, the post holder will provide day-to-day operational oversight, ensuring services are safe, effective, and deliver against performance expectations.
- The role will play a key part in driving service improvement, embedding community pathways, and supporting the delivery of Trust and system priorities.
The post holder will act as a senior operational lead within the Directorate, including deputising for the Directorate Manager during periods of absence or service pressure.
The post holder will support the operational management of Adult Community Services, providing day-to-day oversight to ensure delivery against activity, quality, and performance targets. Working closely with clinical leads, acute services, and system partners, the role will support admission avoidance, timely discharge, and the development of community pathways aligned to the shift from acute to community care. The post holder will lead and support service improvement and transformation initiatives, ensure effective workforce management, including safe staffing and appropriate skill mix, and oversee the management of risks, incidents, and complaints with timely escalation and resolution. The role will also contribute to financial management, ensuring services operate within agreed budgets and deliver efficiency, while maintaining compliance with Trust policies, governance requirements, and regulatory standards. The Assistant Directorate Manager will act as a key operational lead during periods of service pressure and deputise for the Directorate Manager as required.
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About the Trust
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute, and community services. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
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We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Charlotte Dutton
- Job title: Directorate Manager
- Email address: charlotte.dutton@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07917089685
PA Sally Elwell
- Email address: sally.elwell@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01902 446171
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