This post is only open to internal applicants.
Deputy Operations Manager
Band 8a
Main area IVF Grade Band 8a Contract Secondment: 12 months (Available from 01/05/2025 to 01/06/2026) Hours Part time - 27 hours per week Job ref 180-E-255116
Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E Town Cambridge Salary £53,755 - £60,504 p.a. pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/05/2025 23:59
Job overview
Are you looking for your next challenge? An exciting opportunity has arisen within Division E(Women’s and Childrens) to lead a standalone IVF unit.
The post holder will support the Operations Manager who, in conjunction with the Clinical Leads and Matrons, are responsible for the operational management of NHS services alongside self- funded activity. The post holders will take the lead responsibility for the management of the Referral to Treatment (RTT) Access and recovery plans across all areas.
This is a great opportunity to develop your leadership skills in a busy, demanding and rewarding environment. Applications are open to those who seek an internal secondment.
If you are an experienced NHS manager with operational experience and have the ability to meetthe challenges of the service, we would like to hear from you.
Previous experience of working in an IVF unit is essential for this post
Main duties of the job
The key focus of this post will be internal to the Trust, delivering the
key objectives and targets of the Directorate and organisation. The
post holder will manage the Cambridge IVF service, ensuring the
delivery of key targets within the budgeted resources available. They
will contribute to strategic and annual business planning for their
service areas, including the engagement of senior medical and other
staff, as required. They will also coordinate the planning,
development and implementation of service improvement, capital and
other projects for the areas they are responsible for. They will
administer clinical governance processes within their areas and assist
in the management of risk.
Provide cross cover across the Directorate as required.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 11th May 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 26th May 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Recognised management qualification
* Evidence of Continuous
* Professional Development
* Relevant postgraduate qualification in health service management
Experience
* Substantial experience of managing a clinical, social or equivalent service
* Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
* Demonstrable success in planning and managing change
* Commissioning and service planning
* Significant budgetary management experience
* Significant experience of managing a large workforce
* Research experience
* Public sector
Knowledge
* Commissioning and service planning processes
* Clinical governance
* The NHS and modernisation agenda
* The importance of successful partnership working
* Principles of lifelong learning
* Professional education and training
* Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
* Patient and public involvement
Skills
* Leadership and ability to motivate and empower others
* Excellent communications skills including: inter-personal skills liaison and negotiation skills writing and presentation skills
* Influencing clinicians and managers for service improvement
* Budget and resource management
* Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
* Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently
* Positive and effective team worker
Additional Requirements
* The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
* Willingness to work anywhere in the Trust and to travel, on occasions, within the region and nationally
* Ability to work Flexible hours
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