There are many opportunities to undertake management roles for the NHS or Social Care in mid and south Essex.
Healthcare management focuses on overseeing and coordinating many different aspects of healthcare delivery within an organisation and encompasses a wide variety of managerial and leadership functions. You can work in many different departments and settings in this role.
Management staff play an essential role in many key functions including:
- Strategic Planning
- Operations Management
- Quality Improvement
- Financial Management
- Technology and Data Management
- People Management
- Communications
Healthcare Management is incredibly important and contributes to improved patient care, efficiency within services, cost reductions, improved compliance with regulations, improved innovation and motivated teams.
To be employed in any healthcare management role you will need to demonstrate a good standard of literacy and numeracy and for some roles, employers will ask for degrees and previous management experience along with GCSE’s or equivalent in maths and English. Digital skills and qualifications are also highly sought after as many NHS and Social Care settings rely on IT based systems to manage their databases and patient information. You would also need to demonstrate positive time management, communication, financial management, operational skills and organisational skills for any management role.
Working for the NHS or for Social Care in Mid and South Essex provides many opportunities to develop your skills further and there are a wide range of apprenticeship, in-house training and continuing professional development opportunities available that you can also use to build your career in management.
There are also many opportunities to further develop your career in management by taking on additional responsibility. You could work as a manager in a clinical healthcare department, a non-clinical department such as HR or Finance, you could manage a hospital or care home setting or a GP surgery, the management options are vast! There are also development opportunities to move to roles in wider healthcare teams, progress into director roles or work as a management consultant.