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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Band 7 Unit Manager for Outpatients - Hawthorne House BHH

Birmingham On-site 5-10 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 5,516 employees£49k – £57k / year
Sponsorship verifiedLeadershipTeam BuildingManaging ResourcesTime ManagementChange Management

Requirements

Candidates must be a registered adult nurse with substantial clinical experience and demonstrate leadership abilities. Experience in team management, resource management, and a commitment to patient safety and service improvement are essential.

Job Description

Job Summary

The Band 7 Outpatient Manager is responsible for coordinating and supporting the nursing and operational delivery of services at Hawthorne House. Working in partnership with operational teams, clinicians, nurses and administrative staff, the post holder will ensure that services run efficiently, safely and deliver a high-quality patient experience.

Role

Hawthorne House provides specialist HIV, Sexual Health, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology & Allergy services. The post holder will play a pivotal role in:

  • Promoting a Kind and supportive environment for patients and staff
  • Ensuring services remain Connected, with effective communication and coordination across all disciplines
  • Taking a Bold approach to problem-solving, service improvement and operational and nursing challenges

This role is integral to maintaining patient safety, improving patient flow, and delivering a seamless and positive patient journey in our outpatient area and being a senior manager for the nursing team in Hawthorne House.

Working Pattern

Full-time role: 37.5 hours per week

Monday to Friday

Standard working hours: 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break)

Core service hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with extended opening until 8:00 PM on Wednesdays

No weekend working

Bank holidays off

Option to work compressed hours over 4 days per week (for example, 7:00 AM to 5:15 PM)

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

Essential Criteria-

  • Registered Adult
  • Evidence of Leadership training
  • Demonstrate an ability, experience, passion in the following areas.
  • Team building
  • Resources
  • Time management

Lead and coordinate Nursing and operational delivery at Hawthorne House, ensuring safe, efficient, high-quality, patient-centred services across HIV, Sexual Health, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology & Allergy.

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Adult Nurse on NMC register

Desirable

  • Health care management / Leadership Qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Professional Portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
  • Substantial relevant and recent clinical experience within a complex health care setting or Acute NHS setting working as a deputy Manager Band 6 position including the supervision and education of junior staff/ students .
  • Can demonstrate understanding / experience / in practice based supervision / assessment as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council ( NMC ) standards for student supervision and assessment
  • Demonstrable current, recent experience of team leadership and management within the healthcare setting.
  • Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with the clinical service.
  • Evidence of effective multi-professional working.
  • Experience of being a mentor
  • Demonstration of a significant contribution to innovative practice or change management
  • Experience in interviewing and selection of staff
  • Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice
  • Demonstrate an ability, experience, passion in the following areas. (E )

oLeadership

oTeam building

oManaging Resources

oTime management

oRole modelling

oChange management/ clinical developments

oClinical governance

oAudit and research

oWorkforce planning / management

oNHS policy and political awareness

oKnowledge of clinical governance

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Demonstrates the key strengths and motivators for relating to others.
  • Competence in expanded clinical practice associated with the role.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
  • I.T skills
  • Proven ability to analyse data and identify data trends
  • Able to effectively present information to groups /health care professionals.
  • Ability to work under pressure across competing demands /properties.
  • Positive and enthusiastic attitude
  • Approachable and friendly
  • Supportive
  • Flexible
  • Well organised
  • Good communicator
  • Ability to delegate and supervise

TBC at appointment

  • Willingness to work core shift patterns for the area Monday to Friday with occasional out of hours /weekend working

OR

  • Undertake a range of shift patterns to cover 24/7 period when working as part of a peer group with occasions of out of hours / weekend working

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Kaafia Mohamed

Kaafia.Mohamed@uhb.nhs.uk

01214240791

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-9017158

Job locations

Heartlands Hospital

Bordesley Green E

Birmingham

West Midlands

B9 5SS

Attachments

Job Description

JD PS.pdf – 495KB Opens in a new window

Education

["professional certificate"]

Skills

LeadershipTeam BuildingManaging ResourcesTime ManagementChange ManagementClinical GovernanceAuditResearchWorkforce PlanningCommunicationData AnalysisMentoringProblem SolvingPatient SafetyService ImprovementOperational Management

About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.

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