Job overview
This Divisional Chief of Service role will carry overall responsibility for leadership and management within their division. This will include establishing a comprehensive annual plan, management of budgets and contributing to the Trust's Best Care Programme. They will participate in weekly executive meetings, attend the monthly Trust Management Executive meeting and chair the Divisional Management Board. They will demonstrate visible and credible leadership, role modelling Trust values. Patient safety and the patient experience will be placed at the centre of all divisional activity.
Main duties of the job
Operational Leadership
Liaise with Chief of Service colleagues, Divisional Directors of Operations and Divisional Directors of Nursing and Quality to ensure activities across the Trust are fully co-ordinated, integrated and aligned with corporate strategy.
Lead the Divisional Director of Operations, the Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality, Director of Clinical Services and the wider divisional management team.
Lead operational plans to support the Trust's strategic objectives. This will include responsibility for the achievement of the relevant key performance and access targets, contractual obligations including CQUINS and all CQC standards.
Lead the annual planning cycle for the division
Secure effective use of financial and non-financial resources including the workforce within the division ensuring these are deployed to provide maximum patient benefit.
Lead the development and delivery of cost improvement programmes.
Develop opportunities for revenue generation within the division.
Develop systems to provide clinical information to staff to enable them to benchmark and audit their practice to support improvements in patient experience.
Working for our organisation
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.