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Job summary

Main area
Management and Administration
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
319-6195665AZ
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North Tyneside General Hospital
Town
North Shields
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Assistant OSM

Band 7

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

This is a rare opportunity to join an Outstanding team at the forefront of healthcare delivery in Northumberland and North Tyneside.  

We are looking for an assistant operational manager to join our services, focusing on improvements to access to cancer diagnosis and treatment as part of our Health Inequalities work.  This role will work closely with our Public Health and Targeted Lung Health Teams in ensuring patients have accessible information, care and Treatment.

The successful applicants will have exceptional project management skills, professional skills in people management, data analysis and a drive for operational delivery and health improvement.

We will provide a nurturing, learning environment to support development and career progression through protected learning and mentoring time.

Main duties of the job

  • To ensure effective leadership, coordination and control of a defined area within the directorate at an operational level.
  • To provide leadership support in the development of facilities services.
  • To actively support the Cancer Manager in and contribute to the development of Business Unit strategy and objective setting.
  • To support the achievement of objectives within both the trust and Business Unit.
  • To support the Cancer Manager  in the delivery of services so as to meet the performance targets for the trust.

 

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To provide project management support for key projects as well as the collation and analysis of data to support development of services.
  • Review the Cancer  Pathways across specialities and work with clinical and non-clinical staff to facilitate improvements and reduce inequality to access to care and treatment.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional qualification to degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Management qualification.
  • Masters degrees or equivalent level of post grad qualification.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Martin O'Callaghan
Job title
Cancer Services Manager
Email address
martin.o'[email protected]
Telephone number
Ext:114075
Additional information

Amanda Walshe

[email protected]

07774333308

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