Job overview
Divisional Director – Clinical Support Services
Divisional Director – Surgery, Women and Oncology
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest NHS teaching hospital trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in education and research. Our Trust consists of four hospitals – the Churchill Hospital, the John Radcliffe Hospital (which also includes the Children’s Hospital, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre, West Wing and Women’s Centre) and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our turnover in / was over £ and we employ over, staff.
During / we saw, emergency department attendances,, elective inpatient activity and ,, elective outpatient activity.
The Opportunity
We are seeking to appoint two new Divisional Directors to join our Trust. These roles are fundamental to the leadership of our organisation and offer the post-holders both strategic and operational stretch. As key members of the Trust Management Executive, it will be important that each post holder can provide visible leadership to all staff within these Divisions and ensure the delivery of agreed objectives and plans across Divisional activities with the aim of securing patient focused, modern, effective and efficient services, both across the Trust and within the wider local health economy.
Main duties of the job
There will also be opportunities for the Divisional Directors to lead each Division’s research and educational activities and pursue optimum working relationships with the Universities, Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)/BRU and the Health Innovation Network.
As a Divisional Director, you will be a committed, motivated and engaged member of the senior leadership team, with strong clinical experience working to support the Executive Team and determined to deliver world class and compassionate services to all our patients, users and stakeholders.
There has never been a more important or indeed more compelling time to join our Trust in roles which offer scale, complexity, challenge, personal development and impact. We care passionately about the delivery of world-class patient care, enabling a culture that supports innovation, cutting-edge research and education and you, as a senior leader will be pivotal in enabling us to achieve just that.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
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