Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
1. University degree or equivalent professional qualification
2. Demonstrate capability and capacity for clinical service management at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare environment, including staff management, financial management and change management
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
3. Demonstrable credible and successful experience in highly complex hospital discharge management, process and policies
4. Previous experience of system management including delivery of health or social care service working across organisational boundaries
5. Previous senior managerial experience in a large and complex organisation preferably within the NHS/Local Authority
6. Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
7. A detailed understanding of the national agenda for health services – both legislative and direction of travel
8. Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within an organisation
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
9. Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve others
10. Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovate service delivery and partnerships
11. Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief ‘up the line’.
12. Make things happen by working in partnership with others and using the highest level influencing and Application form Interview Assessment References negotiating skills
Physical Skills and Emotional Effort
Essential criteria
13. Ability to deal with exposure to verbal and physical aggression
14. Ability to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues
15. Required to use appropriate level of Personal Safety techniques to deal with challenging clients or incidents