Service Manager - Cancer Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for;

1) Improvement and innovation and will need to focus at an operational and strategic level, supporting the Care Group Manager to improve services for patients and staff within the care group.2) The successful candidate will be adaptable, have excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, have excellent communication skills, a good attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.3)The successful candidate will work well as part of a team, be professional and personable at all times, able to multi-task as well as being able to work under pressure.

Person Specification

Qualifications, knowledge and experience

Essential

• First degree/equivalent professional qualification/equivalent experience
• Leadership training
• Management training
• Training and experience to Masters' or equivalent level/post graduate level study
• Project Management qualification / further training or demonstrates substantial level of project delivery experience
• Consolidated experience to demonstrate capability and capacity for management of health services at a senior level
• Demonstrable staff and resource management experience across a range of a variety of issues
• Able to facilitate and implement policy, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
• Demonstrates experience of managing challenging problems by developing practical workable solutions to address them.
• Ability to communicate vision to staff and manage change effectively.

Desirable

• Previous proven experience in a healthcare setting

Trust Values

Essential

• Patient First
• Working Together
• Always Improving

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust

Address

University Hospital Southampton

Tremona Road

Southampton

SO16 6YD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/home.aspx