Directorate Manager IM A

To be managerially responsible for the Integrated Medicine A services, providing clear leadership and working with the Clinical Director, Matron, Care Group Director and Care Group Director of Operations to ensure the provision of high quality patient care and the most efficient and cost effective use of resources. The services/sites within these portfolios are: Integrated Medicine A:

• Renal
• Audiology
• Townlands (Henley)
• Bracknell
• Sexual Health
To be responsible for ensuring that within all specific work areas all local and national performance standards and objectives are met.,
• To be responsible for ensuring the operational delivery of services; leading and effectively implementing change management initiatives to improve service provision.
• To influence and lead on the strategic development and service improvement of clinical services in conjunction with the Matron and in support of the Clinical Director.
• With the Clinical Director and Matron, to view the grouping of services as a business unit in line with service line reporting (SLR), and to lead on embedding and using SLR in the management of the Directorate.
• Other services may be added to this portfolio in line with the Directorate Managers' personal development programme, and the needs of the service.
• To participate in the Trust's on-call manager rota.
  
  Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire.With seven sites, the Trust employs approximately 6,500 staff and serves a population of around 1,000,000 people.
In January 2020, the Trust was rated 'Good' overall by the CQC and was proud to receive the inspection report, which highlighted many examples of good and outstanding care across the Trust.Reflecting the high standards of care on offer, recent patient surveys show that over 90 per cent of patients rate their overall experience of services as excellent, very good or good. We provide acute medical and surgical services to Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire and specialist services such as cancer, dialysis and eye surgery to a wider population across Berkshire and its borders.