Directorate Support Manager

This role provides an excellent opportunity for an experienced, motivated and passionate operational services manager, to be responsible for supporting the management of Specialty Medicine services across the three acute hospital in CTMUHB.
The specialty Medicine Directorate sits within the Unscheduled Care Group within CTM University Health Board and covers the following specialties; Cardiology, Respiratory, Diabetes & Endocrine, Rheumatology, Sports & Exercise Medicine, Rapid Diagnostics, Neurology and Nephrology.
The successful candidate will have in depth knowledge and experience of the performance management and service development of a wide range of medical specialties, including managing referral to treatment performance and single cancer pathway management.
We are looking for a manager who can come and make a difference to our team and provide comprehensive operational management support.
The directorate support manager will have experience of managing teams, with the ability to maintain the supportive team environment and provide opportunities for continued learning and development., To ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and effective services in line with national and locally agreed standards.
To ensure that all relevant qualitative and quantitative targets are delivered in a timely way and with the agreed resource framework.
Responsibility for managing all operational aspects of activity, referral and performance management.

Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
We listen, learn and improve
We treat everyone with respect
We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales's capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed