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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application
Here at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, we're proud to be ALL HERE FOR YOU -for our patients, our communities, and each other.
As part of our commitment to fairness, transparency, and personal integrity, we ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills, and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar, or formatting, we expect that the content of your application-especially personal statements and responses to role-specific questions-is written by you. This helps us get to know the real you and ensures that our recruitment process remains equitable and meaningful for everyone.
Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Graduate or equivalent level of experience.
* Managerial experience or qualification equivalent to post graduate diploma
* Master's degree or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
* Experience or qualification relating to specialty
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Highly specialist knowledge of managing within a NHS healthcare setting
* Detailed knowledge and experience of managing performance, capacity, demand and activity
* Knowledge of managing staff within a healthcare setting and experience of managing a service
* Knowledge and experience of project/programme management
Training and Experience
Essential criteria
* Proven experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing healthcare services
* Management of resources with a good track record with change management, budget management, efficiency sav ings and financial recov-ery plans
* Experience of project management and imaginative planning
* Experience of managing a diverse team
* Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
* Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change
* Experience of identifying education and training needs of staff
* Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
* Experience in workforce planning
* Experience in setting establishments and using workforce toolkits including dependency tools
* Experience in R&D
* Experience of modernising services without additional resources
* Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice
* Experience in clinical audit/benchmarking
* Experienced in complaints management
* Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in the redesign of services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
* Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 344.4KB)
* Functional Requirements (PDF, 920.2KB)
* Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)
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