Deputy Directorate Manager Surgery

At Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust, we are seeking a Deputy Directorate Manager for General & Emergency Surgery to join our cross-site team delivering dedicated 24/7 Emergency General Surgery services at the John Radcliffe Hospital, High Volume Day Case surgery at the Horton Hospital and Elective cancer and benign inpatient surgery at the Churchill Hospital., In this role you will work closely with the Directorate Manager, Matrons and Clinical Director to provide transformational leadership and change management across our site. You will provide day to day operational support to :

• Emergency General Surgery service based at the John Radcliffe Hospital to deliver a timely and responsive 24/7 Emergency Surgery service which forms part of the Trust Urgent Care Pathway.
• General Surgery Elective services, with responsibility for delivery of the RTT, and Cancer performance indicators.
• Deliver a safe and responsive service for our patients, through continuous service improvement and engagement with all stake holders to ensure best quality care is provided.
  
  To succeed at this role, you will require previous managerial experience in a complex organisation, you must be a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and a pro-active team player with proven leadership and management skills. You will need to be an excellent communicator, have a flexible and adaptable attitude, willing to work collaboratively across sites and services, able to motivate others by providing positive, professional, and accountable leadership and will be a role model for both the Trust and NHS.
  
  The OUH is world-renowned for its cutting-edge developments and there are strong links with Oxford University. The General Surgery clinical teams provide a wide range of surgical services using innovative technologies and procedures including robotic surgery to deliver emergency, benign & oncology procedures for the local population of Oxfordshire and patients referred from around the region., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel