Operational Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly enthusiastic and proactive Operational Manager to join our versatile Specialised Medicine Clinical Group - a place where innovation meets opportunities.

The Medicine Division is seeking a talented, dynamic individual with energy, drive and a high level of interpersonal skills to join our teams supporting our Specialised Medicine Clinical Group. Specialised Medicine is a portfolio of paediatric specialties/departments comprising: Respiratory Medicine/CF; Endocrinology/Diabetes, Dermatology, IMD, Haematology/Oncology; Outpatients/Wards; Phlebotomy; Palliative Care.

If you are looking for an exciting new challenge, Birmingham Women's and Childrens NHS Foundation is the place for you. The post holder will be based at Birmingham Children's Hospital, in Europe's youngest city - Birmingham.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to join a team with a reputation for excellence. A place where you can grow a thriving career.

An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic and motivated individual who would like to further develop within an operational management role and a complex and interesting clinical group., Your role will be to operationally manage the department and to support the ongoing transformation work while providing clear leadership and ensuring delivery against our performance goals.

You will provide leadership and expert advice to your teams to help deliver high standards of care and quality, patient-centred service with an ethos around continuous improvement. The post holder will need to have experience in operational service delivery and needs to be flexible to the requirements of managing fast-paced service.

You will work closely with the clinical teams and departmental heads to ensure the delivery of the key national targets, financial performance, efficient delivery of high-quality and patient focused services and development of regional services across the West Midlands. You will get local, regional and national experience working within existing clinical networks and commissioners to also gain strategic expertise.

Forming part of the Management Team, the post holder will undertake a wide range of duties to support the Divisional Director of Operations, General Manager, Clinical Service Director, Associate Director of Nursing and other senior members of the clinical group management team in the delivery of performance against a broad range of objectives and targets. The post holder will also support the Divisional Team with specific projects to modernise and improve services and assist in the development of the Trust and service strategy.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.