Site Directors

Site Directors will manage overall operational site delivery of planned and unplanned demand, flow, and discharge.
Maintains oversight of escalation of incidents effecting site safety and flow, being a point of escalation and communication cascade across clinical groups and with partner agencies including GM ICB &SCC including NWAS.
Delivers strategic leadership and input for forward planning on site developments and issues, including the safe management of sites in the context of place/locality.
Responsible for development of improvement plans for maximising flow and discharge.
Responsible for co-ordinating site level winter planning in conjunction with Clinical Groups and Corporate colleagues.
Manages site and discharge teams relating to the specific hospital site/sites., + Responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the day-to-day management of the hospital site, ensuring safe and effective service delivery across all Clinical Groups.
+ Maintains oversight of operational pressures, implementing escalation processes to support patient safety and service continuity.
+ Leads and coordinates patient flow across the hospital, supporting Clinical Groups to ensure effective admission, transfer and discharge of emergency and elective patients.
+ Works with clinical and operational teams to address capacity challenges, improve pathways and maintain safe bed utilisation.
+ Acts as a key escalation point for operational issues affecting multiple Clinical Groups, including estates, digital systems, infection prevention and control, staffing and site safety concerns.
+ Coordinates responses to major incidents, business continuity events and EPRR incidents to ensure an organised operational response.
+ Works with external partners including social care, Integrated Care Boards, ambulance services and neighbouring trusts to support complex discharges and system-wide patient flow.
+ Provides leadership for workforce management, financial oversight and service development within the site management function, using performance data to identify improvements and support quality, safety and operational performance., As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives., www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
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We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.
We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore sending interview questions, to candidates, in advance for this vacancy. If you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date.
The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified.
For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants.
The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here.