Deputy Directorate Manager - Medical Specialties

Job overview

Wythenshawe Hospital are offering an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Directorate Manager post in the Medical Specialties  Directorate.  The role will be largely based at Wythenshawe Hospital but some cross site working at Trafford, Withington and Altrincham will be required.

The Deputy Directorate Manager will support the Directorate Manager and Clinical Director with operational management of all services within the Directorate.  This involves supporting the delivery of all operational performance targets, including access targets, delivery of financial balance, trading gap plans, and the quality of services to patients and improving services towards best practice standards within available income.

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The Medical Specialties Directorate at WTWA includes a broad spectrum of clinical specialties including inpatient and daycase services, outpatient based services , clinical support services such as the Wythenshawe site's central decontamination unit and the Trafford site's phlebotomy service, and highly specialised services such as Clinical Haematology.    Specialties include Diabetes and Endocrinology, Rheumatology, and Dermatology.  This variety would provide the successful candidate an array of experience and opportunities to develop.  This is a really exciting time to be joining the Directorate as we look to develop our services to best meet the needs of patients across our four WTWA sites. 

The successful candidates will be required to manage workforce issues, large budgets and operational performance.  They should have experience of working with multiple stakeholders, project and change management, and service development.  

This is a challenging operational role requiring the ability to problem solve, prioritize and demonstrate excellent leadership skills.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.