Deputy Manager - Professional Support Services

The Professional Support Services team within the Office of the Chief Medical Officer at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation trust wishes to appoint a Deputy Manager for the Professional Support Services team, which support and deliver the Revalidation, Job planning and appraisal function of the CMO office. The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service., The Deputy Manager - Professional Support Services is responsible for managing robust and effective systems and processes to support the delivery of the suite of professional support and development services delivered by the CMO Office, including medical appraisal, job planning, performance based awards schemes and other workforce related programmes of work.

As a key member of the service delivery team within the office, the post holder will manage a comprehensive and high quality project and service function in line with national policy requirements while continuing to meet the changing needs of the Trust's medical and dental professionals. Importantly, they will provide critical management support to senior leadership in delivering against external reporting requirements and emerging programmes of work at national and local levels through the interpretation of guidance and the development of aligned processes.

This post holder will work within a multidisciplinary team and will require well developed organisational skills and the ability to handle queries in a sensitive manner. The role requires the exercise of initiative, and will include the deployment of sound judgement, problem solving and process focused skills in order to coordinate and report on a variety of time limited projects linked to the development of new processes.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHSFT comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with KCL in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.