Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosciences
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent: Job share
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (3 x7.5 hour days on week 1 and 2 x 7.5 hours on week 2)
- Job ref
- 190-1774-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/07/2026
Employer heading
Deputy Operations Director
NHS AfC: Band 8b
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Are
Are you ready to take your leadership career to the next level in one of the UK’s largest and most respected healthcare organisations? At Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, we are passionate about delivering exceptional patient care, and we’re offering a fantastic opportunity for a driven and visionary leader to make a real impact pairing up with one of our experienced Deputy Operations Directors in a job share.
This role will oversee one of our largest directorates, Neurosciences, as well as support our central business, data and analyst teams.
The role reports directly to the Operations Director and will provide critical leadership including deputising in her absence. You will be at the heart of service delivery, driving transformational performance improvements and working closely with Clinical Directors and a talented clinical team to shape the future of care.
We are looking for a talented, inspirational leader with a passion for healthcare, who thrives in a fast-paced environment. If you’re hardworking, organised, resilient, and ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow, we want to hear from you.
Apply now to be part of our wonderful team!
Main duties of the job
This post holder will be professionally accountable to the Operations Director, with a specific remit that will be agreed and reviewed according to the priorities across the care group.
Full Job Description available using the attachment.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
This post holder will be professionally accountable to the Operations Director, with a specific remit that will be agreed and reviewed according to the priorities across the care group
Full Job Description available using the attachment.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters' degree level or equivalent experience
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing personal development
- Masters’ degree or equivalent level qualification in a relevant subject (or be working towards), or, demonstrable equivalent knowledge gained through a combination of short courses, additional training, and experience
- Other relevant management qualifications
Desirable criteria
- NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme or similar
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as a Service Manager or Head of Service in an NHS acute hospital setting or complex organisation
- Leadership experience, including the delivery of team objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment, managing attendance and disciplinary issues.
- Experience of developing models and initiatives related to patient/service capacity and demand management
- Excellent knowledge and sound experience of managing, monitoring, controlling complex income and expenditure budgets, and delivery of cost improvement programmes
- Ability to negotiate and influence staff at all levels of seniority, including engagement in difficult decisions
- Demonstrable project management experience and delivery of robust programmes of work including development and implementation of strategic service plans
- Experience of managing the delivery of challenging targets, such as,18 week RTT and cancer targets
- Extensive experience of preparing and presenting complex information, written and verbal to a range of audiences
Desirable criteria
- Training in structured project management and Service Improvement techniques
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly numerate, confident manipulating, interpreting, sourcing and analysing hospital data (including waiting list, 18 RTT and demand information).
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work proactively and cooperatively with senior management, clinical staff and other staff all levels
- Experience of building effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- Competent in the use of IT packages (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- A clear understanding of the use of performance metrics to drive improvement
- A clear understanding of confidentiality when dealing with matters relating to staff and patients
- Excellent organisational skills and an ability to prioritise an unpredictable workload with frequent disruption.
- Flexible approach to working practices and ability to cope with ambiguity and working in a changing environment
- Demonstrable self-awareness, an understanding of impact on others and ability to manage self and maintain professional conduct in difficult and challenging situations
- Enthusiasm and ability to seek out and resolve problems in order to improve patient care.
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Glaves
- Job title
- PA to Operations Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2711752
- Additional information
contactable between 9am - 4pm Mon-Fri
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