We are delighted to be offering the opportunity for two exceptional leaders to join our senior operations team as Divisional Directors of Operations for our Women’s and Children’s Division and our Cancer and Clinical Support Services Division. Both Divisions require highly competent and motivated health service leaders to deliver our exciting clinical operations agendas including the development of clinical services for our Cambridge Cancer and Research Hospital, and our Cambridge Children’s Hospital.
If you are a highly experienced, and credible leader with real healthcare expertise in operational performance and delivery through others we want to hear from you. You should have a proven track record of successfully leading and transforming services in large complex organisations and demonstrable examples of your ability to drive performance through your leadership approach and excellent communication skills. An ability to challenge the paradigms of current practice and innovate is key as is the capability to make deliberate and considered decisions, supported by the understanding and interpretation of performance analytics.
Significant knowledge of NHS operational performance as well as the current and future direction of the NHS at a national level will support your application.
Each of our five clinical divisions are led by a senior team comprising the Divisional Director, the Divisional Director of Operations and the Head of Nursing. Divisions are complex business subsets, and the leadership team, working closely with the Chief Operating Officer and central operations team, facilitate the operational performance to enable the delivery of high quality patient care, corporate and clinical governance, patient safety, clinical quality and delivery of operational and financial targets.As a member of the Divisional leadership team you will lead the Division’s business and strategic planning including shaping and implementing the Trust’s corporate objectives both within the Division and more widely.
Division B (Cancer and Clinical Support Services) provides care across a wide range of local, regional and specialist cancer and oncology services as well as corporate clinical support services such as Outpatients, Imaging and Diagnostics, Pharmacy and Therapies
Division E(Women’s and Children’s) provides full hospital care across our women and children’s services including local, regional and specialist services.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Managerial and Leadership
2. Service Delivery and Performance
3. Finance management
4. Human Resources
5. Quality Strategy, Patient and Public Involvement
Please note that this role does require site-based working.
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note: Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
This vacancy will close at midnight on Sunday 16thFebruary 2025.
Interview date is to be confirmed.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Feb 2025