Assessing Your Own Leadership Capability Performance Essays and Term Papers
Understanding the Management Role to Improve Management Performance
I.L.M. Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management
Candidate Name: Paul Mendes Candidate Number: 0000000
Centre Name: RBHFT Centre Number: R31648
20 August 2012
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Section 1
Understand the specific responsibilities of middle managers in enabling the organisation to achieve its goals.
My organisation is the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, a foundation (semi-independent) National Health Service Trust comprising of two tertiary care heart and lung hospitals, the Royal Brompton Hospital in Central London and Harefield Hospital in Harefield on the London/Buckinghamshire border. The organisation has been a single NHS Trust since 1998, prior to which it was two separate NHS Trusts.
The organisation has 3104 staff of which approximately 300 are doctors, 1200 are nurses (the largest single staff group), 650 are Allied Health Professionals and the remainder are administrative. The organisation is divided into five divisions, Heart Brompton which covers all cardiac treatment at the Royal Brompton site, and also includes the paediatrics departments on both sites for both cardiac and respiratory treatment; Heart Harefield which covers all cardiac treatment at the Harefield site and also includes all transplant surgery; Lung which covers adult respiratory treatment on both sites; Medical which is a division of convenience into which all doctors are placed for employment purposes, irrespective of which division they actually work in and finally Corporate which covers Research, Clinical Support and all of the non-clinical functions of the Trust (IT, HR, Finance et cetera). Each operational division is run by a general manager, the Medical Division is run by the Medical Director and the Corporate Division has individual directors which run their own sections, including the Director of Operations to whom all the
I.L.M. Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management
Candidate Name: Paul Mendes Candidate Number: 0000000
Centre Name: RBHFT Centre Number: R31648
20 August 2012
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Section 1
Understand the specific responsibilities of middle managers in enabling the organisation to achieve its goals.
My organisation is the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, a foundation (semi-independent) National Health Service Trust comprising of two tertiary care heart and lung hospitals, the Royal Brompton Hospital in Central London and Harefield Hospital in Harefield on the London/Buckinghamshire border. The organisation has been a single NHS Trust since 1998, prior to which it was two separate NHS Trusts.
The organisation has 3104 staff of which approximately 300 are doctors, 1200 are nurses (the largest single staff group), 650 are Allied Health Professionals and the remainder are administrative. The organisation is divided into five divisions, Heart Brompton which covers all cardiac treatment at the Royal Brompton site, and also includes the paediatrics departments on both sites for both cardiac and respiratory treatment; Heart Harefield which covers all cardiac treatment at the Harefield site and also includes all transplant surgery; Lung which covers adult respiratory treatment on both sites; Medical which is a division of convenience into which all doctors are placed for employment purposes, irrespective of which division they actually work in and finally Corporate which covers Research, Clinical Support and all of the non-clinical functions of the Trust (IT, HR, Finance et cetera). Each operational division is run by a general manager, the Medical Division is run by the Medical Director and the Corporate Division has individual directors which run their own sections, including the Director of Operations to whom all the