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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.
Find out more about the Trust on their web-site at www.ouh.nhs.uk
Watch how OUH goes about delivering compassionate excellence on the ouhnhs YouTube channel
ODN Manager
Closed for applications on: 4-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 4-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Home based
- Address
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Home based
- Postcode
- OX1 9DU
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
Salary
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Paediatrics
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
The Operational Delivery Network Managers provide managerial leadership to Children and Young Peoples (CYP) networks designated as ODNs. The ODN Managers will lead a team and promote partnership working across constituent organisations to deliver agreed annual priorities.
The post holder will oversee the following networks: Paediatric Neurosciences, Children's Cancer, and Teenage and Young Adult Cancer.
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The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions, and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
They will be expected to communicate and provides highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders (verbal, written and numerical) and present highly complex information about projects, initiatives, and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Purpose:
The post holders will lead their three networks/workstreams to ensure that they:
• Delivers effective clinical flows through the provider system through clinical collaboration for networked provision of services.
• Takes a whole system collaborative approach to service provision, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of sustainable services across the patient pathway, adding value for all stakeholders.
Learning, Respect, Delivery, Excellence, Compassion, Improvement
• Leads and develops improvement projects in collaboration with NHS England colleagues
• Improves cross-organisational multi-professional clinical engagement to improve pathways of care.
• Enables the development of consistent provider guidance and improved services to national standards, ensuring a consistent patient and family experience.
• Manages identified ODN risk and escalates reporting while influencing mitigation.
• Focusses on quality and effectiveness through facilitation of comparative benchmarking and audit of services with implementation of required improvements.
• Leads the ODN in delivering a strategy implementing national policy and best practice across the network area as appropriate
• Supports capacity planning, activity monitoring and forecast planning across the sector in collaboration with ODN Data Analytical staff and commissioning teams.
Operational
• As senior lead working internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost-effective way.
• To support the identification and sharing of best practice to support service improvement.
• To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
• Support the portfolio of programmes/projects in demonstrating value for money tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
• Provide advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders.
• In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports
Improving quality and outcomes
• To ensure that the Network activities support delivery of equitable, quality service provision for all patients.
• Maintaining a comprehensive vision for the delivery of national imperatives and local solutions.
• Ensure the Network contributes to appropriate annual ODN audit programme(s).
• Collaborate across ODNs and with Clinical Leads to establish a benchmarking process for clinical outcome measures as outlined in the NHS England Service Specifications.
Financial and Physical Resources
• Responsible for supporting the commissioning of projects and procurement of services to support project delivery.
• Provide financial reports to the Board as required.
• Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets, and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
People Management
• Responsible for the day to day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment, and where necessary employee relations matters.
• Responsible for an individual’s development on the job and team performance.
Learning, Respect, Delivery, Excellence, Compassion, Improvement
Enabling patient and public involvement
• To ensure that the patient’s voice is identified through any service developments or standards related to delivery of ODN objectives
• To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making in the ODN.
• To ensure all public and patient contact with the ODN is of the highest professional standard.
People Management
• Responsible for the day to day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment and where necessary employee relations matters.
• Responsible for an individual’s development on the job and team performance.
Information Management
• Develop and deliver information sharing systems.
• Develop the acquisition, organisation, provision and use of knowledge and information.
• Highlight exceptions and risks ensuring mitigating action is taken.
• Drafting reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and roviding progress reports for the Programme of Care Manager.
• Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to delivery of ‘products’ and service improvement.
• Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
Research and Development
• Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information
• Deliver projects to comply with key performance indicators, and best practice guidance.
• Co-ordinate Research & Development initiatives, delegating as appropriate.
Planning and Organisation:
• Ensure projects, services and initiatives are delivered on time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner, adjusting plans as required.
• Determine the strategic planning of ODN projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
• Determine the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with Service Sector priorities.
• Determine short, medium and long term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Developing an excellent organisation
• To ensure health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the department.
• To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department.
• To adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times.
Learning, Respect, Delivery, Excellence, Compassion, Improvement
Policy and Service Development:
• Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLA’s) which may impact within ODN.
• Proposes changes to own project/service and make recommendations for other projects/service delivery.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment , we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.
Nursing and Midwifery: For candidates applying from outside the UK: Please be advised that we work in partnership with Envertiz who will be managing your recruitment therefore by applying you are consenting to us passing your contact details and application to Envertiz so they can manage your recruitment and on-boarding. If you do not consent to this, please do not apply.
Probation Period: This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with the Oxford University Hospitals, this will not apply. This statement does not apply to Medical staff or Executive Appointments.
Referencing: When providing employment reference details please provide correct work related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your first referee will need to be your line manager, supervisor or clinical lead from your current or most recent post or place of study. Please note that if you have previously worked for the Trust we will require a reference from your last Manager, this information is essential if your offer of employment is to be confirmed.
Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks. (Please note that shortlisting times vary when applying for a Medical position within the Trust). The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system; therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.
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.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Managing teams
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Operational experience
- Managing complex projects
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters
- Management training
- CPD
Personal skills
Essential criteria
- • Adaptable approach
- • Skilled in identifying relevant information from healthcare policy documents and ensures briefed on
- • Demonstrable ability in the production of successful service proposals and Business Cases
- • Ability to hold the confidence of senior managers and clinicians as a highly credible manager
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Bennett
- Job title
- Head of CYP ODNs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500 552173
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