University Hospital Dorset is one of Britain's leading healthcare providers in the NHS. It was created in October 2020 by bringing together two Trusts: Poole Hospital and Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch.
The new Trust has a turnover of approximately £750m and employs over 9,000 members of staff.
We are seeking to appoint a new Group Director of Operations to our Medical Care Group for a fixed period of 12 months. The Medical Care Group is one of three Care Groups in the Trust. It covers all aspects of medicine and is split across four directorates including Emergency & Urgent Care, Older People's Services and Acute Care, Networked Medicine and Specialist Medicine across all Trust hospital sites.
Base Location: Bournemouth & Poole
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
The Group Director of Operations is a key leadership role with the Trust, responsible for the safe and effective delivery of services. The successful applicant will work as part of a triumvirate to deliver the strategic ambitions of the Trust.
The total Care Group budget to manage is £220 million and a staff group of circa 2500 members.
The post holder will be accountable for the performance of their Care Group alongside the Group Director of Nursing and Group Medical Director in delivering national and local health care priorities, ensuring clinical quality, delivery of all constitutional standards, patient safety, finance and improving patient and staff experience.
Job responsibilities
Strategically, the Care Group Director will have a key enabling role in aligning site operational priorities with the ambition and vision of supporting the delivery of the Dorset Clinical Services review.
This is an exciting time to join the team with the transformational and investment programme to transform the local area, creating a new, state-of-the-art elective and planned care hospital.
The successful individual will be an astute, driven, flexible and determined individual who has a proven history of successful relationship building in order to deliver our strategy. You will have a strong track record of delivery and be considered inspirational and engaging by both staff and external partners.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* First degree or appropriate level of senior managerial experience
* Evidence of Post-Qualification study/professional development to masters levels or equivalent senior management experience
Desirable
* Senior Leadership Training
* Management qualification
Experience
Essential
* Experience of delivering end to end change in a service or function with scale and complexity
* Experience of delivering performance improvement in a service or function
* A strong and demonstrable track record of promoting and delivering quality and productivity benefits
* Experience of delivering on a programme or other activity which required the individual to report to a Board
* Experience of managing a budget, carrying the weight of the responsibility and the ability to ensure the whole adds up
Desirable
* Experience of engaging external stakeholders
Technical Skills and Competencies
Essential
* Ability to analyse complex problems and develop practical and workable solutions to address them
* Demonstrate a common sense approach, when advising and influencing internal and external colleagues.
* Articulate with highly developed communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels, including interpersonal skills, liaison and negotiation skills.
* Able to develop and implement policy, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
* High level of work organisation with the ability to meet strict deadlines, within resources available.
Knowledge
Essential
* A thorough understanding of the principles and techniques of process redesign and improvement including project management techniques
* Understanding of developing and implementing integrated performance management systems
* Extensive knowledge of the NHS in the acute sector with up to date knowledge of operational and clinical services.
Desirable
* Demonstrable understanding of the structure and framework of the NHS and how a Foundation Trust operates within this framework.
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Castle Lane East
Bournemouth
BH7 7DW
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