Total 7 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Gloucester, GL4 3TR

The Trust Director will structure the day to day operation of James Hopkins Trust by delegating appropriate authority to department managers. This will ensure that the Trust Director can focus on addressing and meeting the Trusts set strategic goals, this will be specifically around the use of systems, processes and services and will enable James Hopkins Trust to achieve its aims of providing respite care for life limited & life threatened children in Gloucestershire. The role will include the management and delivery of: Strategy, planning and project management Business and financial planning Governance and compliance Human resources Communications Systems and procedures Facilities management Safe, effective and family led nursing practise and care Key responsibilities and accountabilities Strategy and Planning To develop the charity's strategic business plan, in response to key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. To deliver the outcomes of our priority aims and objectives through the measurement of our KPIs whilst leading the continual implementation of the Trusts Vision, Mission and Values. Manage the charity effectively, ensuring that its financial security, asset management and risk appraisal is maintained and enhanced. Take overall responsibility for achieving, monitoring and reporting on performance against targets in all areas of the Trusts activities, taking appropriate action as required. Develop a culture of continuous improvement throughout all aspects of the Trusts work Business and Financial Planning To oversee the preparation of the income and expenditure reports to the Board of Trustees To oversee the reporting, book-keeping and accounting processes of the charity including the annual report and accounts ensuring compliance with all regulatory and legal requirements To ensure the accurate recording and allocating of all income and expenditure and ensure that office overheads / budgets remain within target, liaising with suppliers to ensure cost and service efficiencies To be accountable to the Trustees for the overall financial health of James Hopkins Trust ensuring that new funding opportunities are pursued. Procure competitive bids for services and goods with appropriate financial agreements whilst ensuring transparency within the limits of the Trust Managers authorisation HR To review existing HR policies and procedures to ensure accurate information is being used and applied. Oversee the recruitment process for new staff including reviewing job descriptions, placing adverts, managing applications, short listing, interviewing, appointment and induction. To oversee the development of the Trusts performance management system. To manage and mentor the Charity Manager & Nursing Manager to realise their individual potential and development needs who in turn will ensure James Hopkins Trust is a well-run organisation where colleagues feel valued and able to work effectively as laid out in our Vision, Mission and Values. Inspire and support the wider team to meet targets and to understand how their contribution is vital to achieving wider strategic aims. Ensure there are clear lines of accountability and responsibility across the team which foster and maintain effective working relationships for the organisation Communications Maintain effective processes to ensure internal communications within the Trust are maintained. Act as point of contact for internal queries on issues when the Charity Manager or Nursing Manager is unavailable. Oversee the production of the charity's bi-annual newsletter, as well as other communications via post, the website, and social networking sites. Approve the content for James Hopkins Trusts website ensuring it is relevant, engaging and up to date. Systems and Procedures To ensure that James Hopkins Trusts activities meet with organisational requirements for quality management, health and safety, legal stipulations, ethical policies and general duty of care. To oversee the Trusts complaints procedure, responding to complaints as required. To develop and maintain James Hopkins Trusts risk management & contingency procedures. To oversee the maintenance of the THANKQ (fundraising database) systems and procedures. Facilities Management To ensure that the building and grounds are properly maintained and are fit for purpose and managed consistently within legislative requirements. Fundraising Oversee the JHT Fundraising Strategy to build a sustainable programme of individual, corporate, legacy and trust donations, to ensure a long-term sustainable income. Hold strategic responsibility for the delivery of the annual income of over £800k per year to agreed expenditure budgets Support the Charity Manager to seek out and develop new income streams and products ensuring future income streams and resources. Support the Charity Manager in building strong relationships with a range of potential funders and oversee shaping and writing of major grant applications. Nursing Oversee that clinical governance and all regulated activity is managed appropriately. Ensure all expenditure on respite is managed within budget. Support the Nursing Manager in building strong relationships and lines of communication with local commissioning groups to ensure appropriate payment rates for our services. Provide ongoing support to the Nursing Manager to ensure all respite allocation is reviewed and assessed fairly in a timely manner. Oversee the Charitable constitution is upheld within the services we provide. Be the nominated individual for CQC. Be one of the named point of contacts for OFSTED. General management Responsible for ensuring the personal health and safety of all staff is maintained by following safe systems of work, and by meeting the requirements of the health and safety policy. Ensuring that the Trusts equality policies are followed and actively practice inclusion within all areas of James Hopkins Trust. Reading and responding to all shared internal communications and information. Participating in James Hopkins Trusts agreed performance appraisal system. Ensuring that all resources (including IT hardware and software) are used safely, legally and efficiently. Develop excellent working relationships within all areas of James Hopkins Trust, liaising with families, nurses, volunteers and charity staff as necessary to support our strategic aims. Work within The Trusts policies, processes and procedures at all times.

The Service Director for Community Physical Health, Mental Health and Learning Disability services will lead the strategic and operational development and delivery of their services, including those we manage on behalf of the Local Authority, as well as taking a lead strategic role in the development of partnership working with Integrated Locality Partnerships.Success will be measured by the following key criteria: Improved outcomes and experience for service users, their families and carers Improved/efficient use of resources Improved staff satisfaction Continuous service improvements Strong partner relationships with primary care (networks and ILPs) Strong partner relationship with the local authority in the delivery of their services Strong system relationships with organisations involved in the delivery of health, wellbeing and care.

For Job description and person specification please see the attached documentation. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Interview date TBC

For further information about the opportunity, please contact: Name: Margaret CoyleJob Title: Chief of Service, Surgery (PA Judith Pennycooke)Phone Number: 0300 422 5177Email address: margaret.coyle2@nhs.net judith.pennycooke@nhs.netor Name: Alan ShewardJob Title: Chief Operating Officer (PA Suzanne White)Phone Number: 0300 422 3547Email address: alan.sheward@nhs.net suzanne.white7@nhs.net Expected Interview Date: Tuesday 9th July 20024

Main Responsibilities and Duties: Leadership, professional standards and accountability- Ensure that patient care is delivered with care and compassion to a high standard, to ensure a positive patient experience and achievement of clinical quality standards as measured through the collection and use of relevant clinical indicators and High Impact Intervention audits.- Work to fully implement ANCC Pathway to Excellence within delegated areas of authority, ensuring successful delivery of the Trusts application and maintenance of status.- Maintain a highly visible leadership profile, undertaking quality rounds and being proactive about engaging with service areas and patients where required.- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information where there are barriers or difficulties to understanding or accepting the information: present complex information or contentious information to large groups where there may be significant barriers to acceptance, hostility or antagonism and in situations where emotions are high.- Contribute to the development of a strong and effective senior team within the Division.- Ensure that nursing and care staff are suitably qualified and competent and maintain professional registration in order to deliver safe quality patient care.- Ensure safe standards of nursing care of the highest quality are consistently delivered ensuring that all services comply with the requirements of the equality and diversity agenda, including impact assessments.- Ensure NMC and/or HCPC standards are consistently delivered against.- Lead the development of strong and effective clinical teams within all areas of responsibility across the Division.- Create an environment in which nursing and care staff feel properly valued and can practice and deliver their practice with confidence.- Ensure standards of training and mentorship for students are consistent with the requirements of the profession and that the links with the university are robust.- Lead and initiate the regular audit of the standards of patient care and ensure that any issues highlighted are regularly reported to the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse and appropriate quality groups.- Lead work on the extended scope of practice and multi-disciplinary working and evidence-based practice; ensuring education needs are appropriately identified and met.- Facilitate the delivery of all development projects within the roles remit including the implementation of the patient experience strategy.- Ensure that the services patients receive are appropriate, accessible when they need them and are delivered in a manner that respects their privacy, dignity and individuality.- Advise and appraise the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse of professional nursing and care issues within the Division.- Provide on-going support to the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse and Senior team representing them at meetings, internal and external to the Trust, as and when required.- Network locally, regionally and nationally to share best practice and benchmark services.- Ensure that nursing resource decisions within the Division have been taken with full professional advice and input to ensure that patient quality/ safety/ experience are not compromised.- Ensure public and patient involvement in the wider work of the Division.- Developing policies, both locally and cross divisionally, to support clinical care and practice, and ensuring the implementation of policies across the service. Performance management- With the divisional management team develop and ensure a culture of performance management, improvement and appraisal as a foundation for excellent organisational performance.- In partnership with the quality team and the Gloucestershire Quality and Safety Improvement Academy, lead on the implementation and development of programmes to measure the quality of services provided.- Benchmark best practice across the Trust and within the Division and adopt practice to best suit patients needs and ensure audit and improvement programmes are delivered anSd research activity supported.- Actively contribute to the Divisional and corporate performance management framework ensuring delivery of locally/corporately determined performance management targets and standards. Service improvement and Research development- Co-develop the divisional Business Plans, as appropriate ensuring that patient involvement contributes to the shape and expectations of the Divisions business plans, taking into account service needs, workforce planning, estate issues, financial constraints, commissioners priorities in terms of contracts, quality targets. Therefore, formulating longer term strategic plans with may involve uncertainty and which may impact cross-divisionally.- Support the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse with the delivery of a wider corporate nursing agenda including the development and implementation of an innovative strategy for nursing and midwifery to strengthen the nursing voice and to secure the workforce of the future.- Undertake delegated corporate, trust-wide lead for delivery of aspects of the nursing agenda as directed by the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse, Deputy Chief Nurse and Deputy Director of Quality. Operational planning and service delivery- Through the implementation performance management arrangements ensure objectives are cascaded and delivered through each nursing team meeting corporate targets for budget management, patient activity, infection prevention and control and quality standards.- Ensure the quality, standard and range of care provided is consistently optimised within the available resources and in line with contract requirements.- Through the provision of nursing input assist the division with the production of Specialty Business Plans and Service Specifications- Identify and provide organisational support to clinical teams and support teams enabling each to access resources efficiently and effectively.- Provide operational day to day management and leadership to senior nursing staff within the Division (Senior Matrons, Matrons and CNS). People management and development- Ensure and monitor the utilisation of the optimum use of staff to deliver safe quality patient care within agreed expenditure targets and agree with specialist staff the appropriate use of overtime, locum, Bank and Agency cover.- In consultation and under the direction of the Deputy Chief Nurse and the Deputy Director for People and Organisational Development, develop a workforce plan to include competencies required and availability of experienced staff that meets the Trust requirements and is in line with professional developments in nursing.- Improve and continually maintain staff morale by effective communication, leadership, optimism and consultation within the Division and with other services, as appropriate and in situations where the subject is highly complex and as in investigations of practice could be hostile, antagonistic or highly contentious.- Develop with the Chief of Service and Director of Operations a flexible workforce in line with national requirements capable of adapting to peaks and troughs in activity where appropriate across the Trust.- Ensure that specialties and departments benefit from the application of effective HR policies, procedures and practices for all staff, e.g., recruitment and selection, employee relations, absence management.- Ensure Individual Performance Review is cascaded to all nursing staff and providing forums for objective setting, performance review and Continuing Professional Development.- Ensure access to training and development programmes to realise the capabilities and fullest possible contribution of all staff taking into consideration the future demands upon the medical profession and other professions allied to medicine- Ensure effective arrangements for the conduct of employee relations and the maintenance and on-going improvement of communications throughout the Trust. Working collaboratively with trade unions and other external stakeholders Finance and performance management- Oversee the nursing and other clinical budgets for staff groups under professional responsibility and manage directly budgets for staff directly reporting to post holder.- Take a lead in developing Senior Nurses budgetary skills to promote ownership and delivery of local responsibilities.- Represent the needs of nursing and patient care in the business and service planning cycle and the transformation work streams and reconcile these with the needs of the service.- Promote and ensure the effective use of bank and agency nursing staff within the cluster, meeting the need to provide safe nursing standards within agreed financial targets. Promote timely and accurate feedback to the Divisional Director. - Ensure the availability to the divisional team of relevant strands of information relating to general nursing performance, contract activity and quality, and participate in agreeing strategies responding to trends.- With the Chief of Service and Director of Operations lead the effective delivery of cost improvement programmes, ensuring sufficient oversight of the quality impact assessment process. Information management and research- Encourage and facilitate audit and research as required, ensure findings are disseminated appropriately and recommendations implemented and reviewed as part of a comprehensive governance framework.- Lead and participate in the development of both Trust-wide NursingFor further information about the opportunity, please contact: Name: Margaret CoyleJob Title: Chief of Service, Surgery (PA Judith Pennycooke)Phone Number: 0300 422 5177Email address: margaret.coyle2@nhs.net judith.pennycooke@nhs.net Interview: Thursday 11th April 2024

MEASURES OF SUCCESSThe following indicators are measures of success (not exhaustive) Leading a high performing Tri delivering collectively to meet objectives and who have ensured that objectives have been cascaded to senior managers, monitored and delivered against plan. The introduction and implementation of innovative Service solutions which improve patient pathways and as evidenced by an improvement in performance metrics. Evidence of collective delivery and collaboration with colleagues to ensure performance improvement of the Trust as a whole. Delivering Performance standards. Delivering services to budget, delivering financial sustainability and increasing income. Developing operational centres of excellence and improving patient pathways. Evidenced by improved performance standards and staff feedback on the management of the change process. Delivering upon programmes of work and contributing to strategic programmes of work inclusive of tracking return on investment.

1. Lead the development and implementation of quality assured inspection and investigation procedures. Inspect pharmacy premises across the island, providing professional advice on facilities and practices. Make recommendations to the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding the appropriate action to be taken to address unacceptable standards of practice and/or law infringements, including the cancellation of registration of premises and of pharmacists in extreme cases. 2. Investigate complaints or allegations relating to incidents involving dispensed medicines, the sale or supply of medicines, or the advertising and promotion of medicines. This may involve Community Pharmacies, licensed Wholesale Dealers, or any other retailer or supplier. Issue advice and recommendations to enable corrective measures to be taken where necessary, where complaints may have been upheld. 3. Work in collaboration with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) through a memorandum of understanding to regulate pharmaceutical wholesalers and manufacturers. 4. Work with the UK Home Office (UKHO) through a memorandum of understanding to ensure that the United Nations 1961 single convention on narcotic drugs is upheld within Jersey. Conduct inspections of Cannabis Cultivation. 5. Liaise with enforcement agencies and professional bodies, both locally and nationally, to ensure arrangements for the importation, distribution, sale and supply of medicines in the Island comply with all relevant legal, professional and ethical requirements 6. Administer controlled drug importation and exportation licences with delegated authority from the Minister for Health and Social Services, in support of the Chief Pharmacist. Liaise with Law Enforcement and Customs, reviewing import and export queries and legislation. 7. Monitor the production, import/export, possession, supply and administration of controlled drugs and other medicinal products. 8. Support the Chief Pharmacist in ensuring that all pharmacy practice within Jersey is compliant with the most recent Pharmacy Standards as laid out by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) of Great Britain. 9. Ensure the registration of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in Jersey, in compliance with the Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technicians Registration Law, with delegated authority from the Minister for Health and Social Services. 10. Proactively provide pharmaceutical expertise to regulatory activity with regards to medicines optimisation and the management of the risks associated with the unsafe use of medicines across the island. 11. Lead on collecting, analysing and preparing information to contribute to policy formulation, strategic planning and implementation for medicines optimisation, prescribing and pharmacy practice. Complete impact assessments as required. 12. Undertake themed reviews to identify and share learning with the wider sector, including generating insights and sharing notable practice case examples. 13. Lead on securing funding through Departmental business planning processes to deliver pharmaceutical policy and strategic objectives. 14. Identify opportunities to participate in collaborative research