Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Service Manager
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Role Overview
The Senior Service Manager has responsibility for managing all aspects of operational delivery within the relevant clinical specialty (Maternity and Gynaecology at the Bedford Site) to agreed quality standards and within the resource and income base available.
Key Responsibilities
- To ensure that service delivery standards are achieved (for instance, wait time milestones)
- Work collaboratively with the General Manager, Clinical Leads, Matron, other Clinical Services, and other colleagues to ensure that service delivery and improvement plans are developed, implemented and reviewed
- Ensure that financial controls are established and maintained within the scope of the clinical specialty
- Act as a champion for patient safety, operational effectiveness and quality
- Work in partnership with colleagues across the Trust to drive the achievement of the Trust’s corporate goals and business plan, including the achievement of all the relevant clinical specialties performance standards incorporating quality, safety, contractual, financial and people
- Lead by example and act at all times as an ambassador for the Trust, championing the Trust’s values and upholding the highest standards of behaviour and compassion for colleagues
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About the Trust
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.
Our Values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
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Additional Information
- Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received.
- All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post.
- Travel between hospital sites may be required.
- Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarise yourself with all requirements of the job.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Zoe Radwell
- Job title: General Manager
- Email address: zoe.radwell@ldh.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07976581916
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