Deputy Care Group Manager

As the new Deputy CGM in CV&T, you will be assigned a portfolio of services to work closely with, but you will also be part of a leadership and operational team overseeing the whole of the Care Group. As a member of the Duty Manager rota, you will also have the opportunity to apply your skills when working out of hours.
In addition to your own day-to-day work for your services, you will also work with the rest of the management team to support each other, share ideas, deliver projects and work together to meet various deadlines e.g. strategic plans, reporting, transformation objectives.
You will be busy; the rhythm of the CV&T is fast-paced and our patients are central to everything we do so we work hard to get it right the first time. The interdependencies between different services are complex so you will need to build your networks both within UHS and externally, be thinking at least three steps ahead and have a Plan B (and ideally a Plan C) most of the time. You will need to take the issues from the every day and use the learning to develop and implement ways of working to fix some of the systemic challenges.
The stakes are high for our patients and their families so when we get it wrong, you need to be able to work with our teams to make it right and represent UHS professionally and compassionately.
However, you won't be alone, you will be working with amazing teams of brilliant individuals who all make miracles happen every day. As you become established, you will work with the teams to support their ideas aligned with our strategic direction so we can make improvements to benefit the experience of our patients and our own staff. You will need to be able to understand the minutia as well as how it fits into the bigger system, both internally and externally, leading to effective and complex change.
You need to be curious and able to turn an idea into something tangible and have the tenacity to drive forward work on behalf of our patients and teams. You also need to be a leader who is passionate about every part of the patient experience and values the contribution that each person makes to the success of the outcome.
So if you want to be part of a service where you will witness things that will make you want to cry with joy and/or frustration (sometimes both), where your commitment to patient care can bring about positive change and where your experience will be pushed then we look forward to hearing from you., Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.
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The cardiothoracic and vascular (CV&T) is a large and busy care group with a core workforce of 900 talented individuals delivering in excess of 87,000 outpatient episodes and over 10,000 inpatient admissions each year. Given the complexity and volume of our work, we are expanding the operational management team to include a new deputy care group manager (Deputy CGM) to support a portfolio of specialities and work with the existing CGM to progress the strategic plans for the service.

As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
Due to the nature of this role and service, this role is on-site and the hours are as advertised.
Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, and we will explore what's possible for the role and service. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
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