A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. We are excited to be advertising the role of an Assistant Service Manager to work within the Paediatric Theatres & Admissions services within Evelina London. The post will be 37.5 hours a week based at St Thomas' hospital.The purpose of this post is to provide a comprehensive administrative service within the Evelina Children’s Surgery, Theatre and Anaesthetic directorate. This post requires excellent organisational and communication skills with a proactive and flexible approach. The successful applicant will play a pivotal role in the operational leadership of our Paediatric Theatre and Admissions services. With line management responsibility for a team of A&C staff they will work closely with the clinical teams and Services to ensure the delivery of key national targets in relation to the efficient delivery of high quality services. They will also be given the opportunity to take the lead on specific initiatives to modernise and transform services. We are looking for an individual with excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to work autonomously. Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trustand we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’. Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in hospital and in the community, continues to grow. We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Evelina London is here for children, young people and women from London to South East England, and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world. As the only NHS Trust in London with women’s and specialist children’s services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. We operate through four clinical directorates: Neonatology and Medical Specialties, Surgical Services, Theatres and Paediatric Intensive Care, Children’s Community Services and Women’s Services. This role is to support the Service Manager in the delivery of a range of services. This will involve delivering against targets in a range of service areas. This will involve ensuring the provision of a high quality admission service to patients and a group of consultants and clinical teams within the Evelina services. This post could also assume the management of an outpatients department as well as managing theatre lists and associated scheduling processes. These day-to-day services will be managed in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints. The post holder will be responsible for the management of a team or teams(s) of staff including service delivery personnel, admissions and other groups of staff. The post holder may also offer a high level of support administration and organisation to a group of consultants or registrars where needed and within resource limitations. This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024