We have a great opportunity for an exceptional leader to join us as the Site Director of Operations. This is an exciting time to progress your career at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, based at our Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) in Bromley. We are seeking an experienced, ambitious, driven, skilled and compassionate leader who can lead, motivate and engage our staff as they strive to provide exceptional standards of patient care. The successful candidate will use their experience, skills and knowledge of performance challenges and standards for an acute hospital and will enable us to deliver safe, effective and responsive services. The Site Director of Operations is responsible for providing strong and robust leadership to senior management ensuring that effective management and performance systems are in place and operational. We're looking for somebody with a proven track record in delivering, high quality, cost-effective services in a large complex organisation. You will have worked at a senior level within acute services. You'll be an integral member of the Site Executive team, working alongside others who champion the King's values every day and who are committed to providing outstanding care to our patients whilst looking after our staff. This post will be primarily based at the Princess Royal University Hospital, however, the role will require cross-site working within all five sites for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust., This post will manage Care Group Clinical Directors and other senior colleagues, ensuring that they feel well supported, engaged and clear about objectives and activity plans. You'll be responsible for the annual site demand and capacity planning working with other Directors to review planning across the group and wider system. Working as part of the Site Executive team and reporting directly to the Site Chief Executive, this post will be expected to provide expert advice to colleagues on all appropriate operational issues, ensuring the achievement of NHS constitutional standards, whilst ensuring the safe provision of high quality patient focused services, in particular ED performance, RTT18 weeks delivery and Cancer related service pathways. You'll manage the day to day operation and performance of the site ensuring cohesive and collaborative working and optimum use of resource to provide the best care for our patients. Working with colleagues to develop clearly defined clinical and business management frameworks which can be used to improve performance across the site. The postholder will work with both internal and external stakeholders, including other Acute Trusts, CCG's, ICS and wider systems within Bromley. Your portfolio will include the following;
* People and Leadership
* Strategic Development to not only the PRUH and South Sites but also the Group as a whole
* Operational and Clinical Performance
* Business Planning and Management
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people. King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.