Job type
PermanentLocation
Harlow, Ipswich and Peterborough (3 roles)Working Pattern
Flexible Working,Full-timeSpecialism
ExecutiveIndustry
Healthcare & MedicalPay
£ Competitive + benefitsClosing date
4 Aug 2024
Bring new ideas and perspectives to providing effective leadership and direction to all staff and managers.
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Local Area Manager (Three posts)
£Competitive remuneration package
Location: Harlow, Peterborough and Ipswich, with flexible working
Overview
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) have a bold vision to ensure that the people of the East of England region are provided with excellent urgent and emergency healthcare by a dedicated team of nearly 5,000 staff and 1,500 volunteers. The overarching aim is to place patients and staff at the heart of everything they do while delivering the vision of ‘outstanding care, exceptional people, every hour of every day’.
After two years of focused cultural change and organisational transformation work by dedicated staff, EEAST came out of the NHS Oversight Framework in January 2024.
The role
At this stage in its evolution, EEAST is seeking to appoint three Local Area Managers who will bring new ideas and perspectives to providing effective leadership and direction to all staff and managers within a specified sector. The post holders will work with the Sector Managers to ensure the implementation and future development of EEAST’s Clinical/Urgent Emergency Care strategy, focusing internally on Trust development.
As part of the senior team to manage the Directorate, you will be responsible for leading the operational management team for a specific hub location (See below) whilst working as part of the wider Sector Management Team. This role provides the lead for the operational management of all frontline resources. This includes the general management of circa 150-250 (Hub dependent) staff who deliver a range of support services including uniforms, administration, HR, Finance, data/analytics, staff development, performance delivery, implementation of operational improvements, budget responsibilities, coordination of local cross directorate working and partnership working with other stakeholders both internal and external to the trust to ensure the effective delivery of Emergency and Urgent Care and Patient Transport Services.
Key areas of responsibility will include:
- To manage staff and provide direction and leadership to Management Teams and operational staff, ensuring Key Performance Indicators are achieved.
- To continually monitor and assess service requirements and negotiate with other Deputy and Sector Managers, facilitating adjustments, where required, to ensure optimum planning of services across the Trust.
- To ensure that the Trust is in a state of readiness to respond to a large scale or major incident and ensure that operational staff are kept informed of recent changes and developments in this area.
- To contribute to, support and deliver effective management of all contracts within your sector, monitoring performance against agreed standards and national targets.
- To be responsible for ensuring that any identified risks to service delivery, patient safety, performance, and finance, are reported to the Sector Manager.
- Ensure effective fleet management and vehicle maintenance in line with Trust policy.
- To be responsible for ensuring adequate cover to meet service demand, national response time standards, and to develop and implement service improvement plans to ensure this is maintained.
You
Your background is not important to EEAST. What will be is your ability to lead people, deliver operational performance and drive change.
Each appointee will bring new ideas and perspectives to providing effective leadership and direction to all staff and managers within a specified sector. The post holders will work with the Sector Managers to ensure the implementation and future development of EEAST’s Clinical/Urgent Emergency Care strategy, focusing internally on Trust development.
There are few organisations like EEAST within the NHS which gives you the opportunity to make a real difference to over six million people and the opportunity to set the agenda for the future of urgent and emergency care across an entire region.
How to apply
Are you interested in becoming one of EEAST’s new Local Area Managers, bringing new ideas and ways of working to continue the transformation of East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust? If so, application is by CV and covering letter. Your letter, which should explain your motivation in applying for the post of Local Area Manager and highlight those aspects of your skills and experience you believe make you an excellent candidate for East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
Further information
Further information
For an informal conversation about the role of Local Area Manager, please contact Laurence Wolahan or Marcia Williams of Hays Executive on 07985 443 826 or 07515 482 954 respectively.
All direct applications will be forwarded to Hays Executive.
Campaign dates:
- 4th August Closing date (Early application encouraged)
- 8th / 9th August EEAST interviews
The above dates are subject to change.
