Bowel Screening Service Manager

The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are looking to recruit a Bowel Cancer Screening Service Manager, responsible for the day to day operational management of our Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, ensuring national quality standards and key performance indicators are met. The post holder will be an integral part of a positive, dynamic management team within a well established Business Unit. Applicants will require strong leadership, communication and organisation skills, with previous experience of operational management, preferably within the NHS. The Business Unit is responsible for the delivery of high quality care across all five sites of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB). The successful candidate will support leading the Bowel Cancer Screening Service, being primarily based at Royal Derby Hospital with expectations for cross site cover at Queen's Hospital, Burton as required.,

• You will play a key role in the operational management of the South Derbyshire Bowel Cancer Screening Programme; working closely with clinicians, NHSE, SQAS and non-clinical teams to ensure that systems and processes are in place to deliver care of the highest quality to patients in our region.
• You will be responsible for managing demand and capacity and implementing sustainable improvements in process and practice to drive increased utilisation and efficiency in line with national guidance for screening programmes.
• You will sit within the wider SMBU2 operational management team supporting the BU priorities and ensuring effective delivery of services by providing leadership, support and guidance on operational related issues.
• You will support delivery of local and national cancer targets.
• You will develop and provide a variety of reports to the Trust Screening team, NHSE, Deputy General Manager and General Manager to provide assurance and escalate risks and issues to senior Trust Management.
  
  As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.