Managing Director

Our people are our greatest strength and through our people we strive to make continuous improvements. The Managing Director of DSFS will help develop, deliver, and drive our strategy and daily operational business, putting people and patients at the heart of everything we do. Working across the Group, system and wider region, you will drive forward the leadership, management, and continuous improvement by role modelling the DSFS Values through collaboration and compassionate leadership. We have a passion to deliver service excellence through our people – becoming a provider and employer of choice by offering first-class facilities and professional services. You will be ambitious and will instinctively know how to positively contribute to the Group’s overall strategic aims and priorities and will have the ability to articulate a clear vision for advancing the provision of high-quality, sustainable services.

Main duties of the job:

• Accountable for the leadership, direction and performance of the business, ensuring delivery of the strategy and annual operating plan including financial performance.
• Deliver strategic objectives by ensuring the business meets its aims, including delivery against key performance indicators identified in the Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the Trust, promoting a continuous improvement mindset towards efficiencies and service improvement.
• Ensure high quality, customer focused service delivery.
• Ensure that resources are appropriately managed in accordance with demand to provide consistent service.
• Ensure development and delivery of ambitious commercial business plans, to grow revenue and deliver enhanced shareholder benefit.
• Ensure services are compliant with relevant statutory and mandatory standards.
• Direct the development of safe and consistent systems of internal control, monitoring and risk management.
• Ensure company policies and processes are communicated, understood and followed.
• Develop a culture which strives for excellence, rewarding innovation and high performance.
• Role model visible compassionate leadership of the DSFS Board and company in line with the DSFS Values.
• Build, develop, motivate and manage an effective team with common purpose and operating standards.
• Be an ambassador for the company, build and maintain effective, positive and transparent partnerships with customers, business partners, vendors to maximise opportunities, growth and reputation.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust), which provides a wide range of services, currently including: Financial management and financial services including payroll, commercial services including procurement, information and communications technology services, estates, health and safety and environmental sustainability, facilities management, retail and catering. DSFS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute. As our Managing Director, you will play a pivotal role in championing equality, diversity, and inclusion across all levels. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, join us in fostering a culture of respect, collaboration, and innovation, where every voice is heard, and every individual can thrive. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Person specification:

• A proven track record of strong leadership at a senior level and developing performance-oriented teams.
• Extensive recent and relevant experience in a strategic role responsible for implementing business development solutions that have delivered growth.
• Experience of procuring and negotiating contracts of a comparable scale and complexity to those handled by DSFS.
• Experience of developing a company-wide growth strategy.
• Excellent communication skills able to engage and influence stakeholders and manage conflict to resolution.
• Evidence of contributing impactfully and entrepreneurially to ongoing change and development.
• A strong understanding of the commercial and healthcare sectors, whether gained through the NHS, independent sector or both.
• Experience of working in a large complex environment and contributing to their development and growth.
• Experience of leading and developing a positive and inclusive organisational culture.
• An understanding of the requirements of company directorship and legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to the organisation.

Qualifications & Training:

• Significant Board level leadership experience.
• Relevant professional and/or leadership qualification or comparable experience.
• Strong evidence of continuing personal and professional development.
• Compliance with NHSE Fit and Proper Person Test.

Skills & Behaviours:

• Personal and professional credibility, with the ability to positively represent the company to a wide range of audiences.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Ability to balance the need to think strategically and manage operationally.
• Ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders the Trust Board, customers and trade unions.
• An inspirational leader, communicating with vision and clarity to lead change and deliver success through others.
• Effective communication skills, able to distil complexity and use language to shape conversations and influence others.
• Strong team player with a collaborative working style with peers, sharing knowledge and being proactive in understanding and resolving issues.
• Motivating and empowering leadership style with ability to inject pace and drive.
• Determined and resilient, responds positively to setbacks, self-reliant and finds solutions.
• Demonstrates DSFS Values.

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.