Head of Specialist Services Manchester

Head of Specialist Services Greater Manchester

gtd healthcare is a values-driven, not-for-profit provider of innovative healthcare services across North-West England. With an annual turnover of £49 million, we are one of the regions largest NHS-commissioned providers of Primary and Urgent Care services.

Clinically led and committed to delivering high-quality care, we have been serving patients for over 25 years. We are seeking to appoint a Head of Specialist Services to lead and develop our Specialist Services portfolio.

Our Specialist Services support diverse communities across the region, delivering tailored care to meet the needs of patients and commissioners. Current services include migrant health provision across Greater Manchester, latent tuberculosis infection screening, community response and vaccination services, and acute visiting and 2-hour response services.

This represents a key area of organisational growth, offering significant opportunities for innovation and service development. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to ensure services are designed and delivered in line with commissioner requirements and population health needs.

We are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and forward-thinking senior manager with the expertise to meet the challenges and opportunities of this rewarding leadership role.

Given the services within the portfolio, the role requires cultural competence and an understanding of trauma-informed practice.

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact us.

The role will provide operational and service development leadership across all localities in the delivery of gtds portfolio of specialist services. The current budget for specialist services is £2.3m, with responsibility for managing the associated service budgets, delivery of cost efficiency schemes under the organisational Business Improvement Project, and support discussions around contracting arrangements.

The Head of Specialist Services, with support from gtd clinical leadership, will ensure that services within the specialist services portfolio deliver care that meet the highest quality and performance standards.

The role carries delegated responsibility for operational performance of all gtd healthcare services within scope, together with leading the development and delivery of new such services across the organisation, and driving transformation of these services in support of our ambitious QuEST - Quality, Excellence and Strategic Transformation programme.

The postholder will be the lead senior officer working with the Transformation Office and other colleagues to grow our specialist services portfolio, across the organisation and work with partners and commissioners at a local, regional and national level.

You will embody the values and corporate personality of gtd healthcare to help ensure that these are understood by all, and lived by staff across all our specialist services.

At gtd healthcare, we do things differently. Our not-for-profit ethos and commitment to innovation offers patients the best experience possible and a unique opportunity to transform services.

We are committed to developing and supporting our people to achieve their career aspirations while making a positive impact on patients and the wider community. Our values drive everything we do, with our people at the heart of delivering the best possible healthcare.

As an employee of gtd healthcare, you will be able to take advantage of our benefits package, including:

• working for a values-led organisation;
• Real living wage employer;
• supporter of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter;
• access to Stream, which provides flexible, on-demand access to stream your pay during the month;
• salary sacrifice car benefit scheme;
• 30 days annual leave, rising to 32 after five years of continuous service;
• flexible working hours and policies;
• family friendly and carer policies;
• opportunities to apply for innovation and quality awards;
• access to gtd healthcare wellbeing initiatives;
• opportunity to become part of an employee owned organisation;
• gtd healthcare social and fun activities;
• cycle to work scheme;
• NHS staff discounts, a free Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts;
• access to an employee assistance programme.

gtd healthcare is a £49m turnover organisation providing healthcare across the North West of England. We deliver a diverse and extensive range of primary, urgent and specialist care, within GP practices, hospital settings and in community, all developed around our strong values base. We believe this scale offers enormous opportunities to deliver high quality care across a large geographic footprint and population, pioneer new digital innovations and creates a best in class sustainable out of hospital care models for the future.

We are proudly not-for-profit and have a have deep commitment to not only providing the best care possible but also creating maximum…