Deputy Operations Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Operations Manager to join the Women and Childrens Directorate at George Eliot Hospital. The successful candidate will be required to lead, manage and support the development of our services, ensuring continuous improvement to provide operational management of all aspects of the service, including financial, workforce and day to day operational performance.
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.
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Careers at George Eliot - 'Where you make a difference', Support the Women and Childrens Directorate leadership team in the development and provision of a comprehensive, high quality, patient centred care service within the resources available. The post has key functions: responsibility for the improvement and delivery of targets. Responsible in delivering performance against financial and activity targets; leading the development and delivery of service strategy; organisational development and the management of risk within the directorate., 1. Ensuring clear communication providing and receiving complex sensitive information.
2. Uses specialist knowledge across a range of work procedures to implement robust policies for own work area and proposes changes as applicable, to deliver business objectives and agreed targets.
3. Collaborating with the operations manager, matrons and clinical director to ensure sound operational management of all areas with robust systems that are continuously improved.
4. Lead the delivery of operational performance of specialities within the directorate to achieve delivery of national and local targets, the development and delivery of improvement plans and reengineering of roles/models of care.
5. In liaison with the General Manager and the directorate Financial Business Partner agree and deliver against financial and activity profiles for relevant specialities, identify risks and implement and review risk reduction strategies.
6. Lead Implementation and review robust systems and processes so that speciality budgets are effectively managed and financial balance is achieved, within Trust budgetary rules, Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions
7. Responsible for the improvement and delivery of targets by ensuring effective and efficient operation of the specialities within the Women and Childrens directorate.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women's, children's, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot., The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.
In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual - taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.