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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.

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, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Person specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Proven ability to obtain and consistently achieve results and targets
• Highly developed leadership skills and the ability to motivate/challenge teams
• Proven ability to deal with a wide range of data and take appropriate decisions from it
• Proven ability to come up with flexible and creative solutions to problems
• Excellent collaborative working skills and the ability to build strong relationships
• Proven ability to leading change through people
• Holding others to account to ensure they deliver targets and deal effectively with performance
• Strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards of leadership
• Being able to manage own emotions and be resilient
• Management style that empowers others
• Effective strategic influencing skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience of playing a major roles in an organisational change programme
• Formal project management training
• Experience of partnership working

Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• Successful track record as a senior manager within an NHS organisation managing clinical services
• Demonstrate sound financial/staff management
• Evidence of effectively managing change

Desirable criteria

• Experience within an acute hospital setting

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, values and principles of timely local access

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters Degree or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuing CPD

Desirable criteria

• Degree level education of equivalent

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Deputy Director of Performance and Operations (PDF, 285.9KB)
• Functional requirements_DeputyDirector_PerformanceandOps (PDF, 371.9KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)