Your role will be to operationally manage the department, providing clear leadership and ensuring delivery against our performance goals. You will provide leadership and expert advice to your teams to help deliver high standards of care and a quality, patient-centred service with an ethos around continuous improvement. The post holder will need to have experience of operational service delivery and needs to be flexible and adaptable to the requirements of a non-elective service. Outstanding communication and organisational skills are essential. This is a challenging operational role, but represents an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to manage our high activity service areas. The role represents an ideal opportunity for the post holder to further their skills and progress their career in to a senior management role. You will need a clear and thorough understanding of NHS challenges and opportunities, and their particular relevance in these service areas. Additionally, you will have the capacity to manage a large combined service budget effectively, be confident in delivering operational initiatives to achieve patient access targets (RTT), and competent in complex data handling and IT skills. You will benefit from dedicated support from the directorate senior management team in delivering your objectives.