Directorate Manager and Emergency Care

Role Overview

Working Full time : 37.5 hours per week

As the Directorate Manager for Urgent and Emergency Care you will be accountable for the delivery of all operational performance targets, including access targets, finance, quality of services to patients and improving services ensuring patients receive safe, effective, five star patient care from the outset within available income.

• Identify and correct areas of current and future risk; ensuring performance targets and strategic objectives are met, including leading capacity and demand to achieve national and local standards.
• Produce business plans/business cases to support development within the Urgent and Emergency Care pathways across the Emergency Department / Acute care, presenting these to the Trust internal and external meetings.
• Ensure all appropriate governance and performance metrics are in place and provide assurance to the Divisional Director that the pathways are managed effectively.
• Work with Medical and Nursing Leads to run the day to day pathways, ensuring rapid adaptation to changing demands and delivery of key operational performance targets.
• Manage staff and budgetary resources within the directorate, ensuring delivery of the Cost Improvement Scheme (CIP) and planning for cost reduction or income generation strategies.
• Act as a key member of the Divisional Management team, taking full responsibility for actions, keeping other team members fully informed, and working closely with stakeholders to promote patient safety and experience.

Working across three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

See Job Description For Further Details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.