Interim Associate Director of Operations - Surgery

East of England, Band 8c (Agency Price Cap)

Our client, an NHS organisation, based in the East of England, is seeking to recruit an Interim Associate Director of Operations - Surgery for an initial 3-6 months.

Key responsibilities

• Working with the Divisional Director, Lead the Divisional Board, in strategic development and planning; coordinating and driving forward the development of the Division’s 5-year business plan.
• Ensuring input from Divisional colleagues is delivered through strong leadership.
• Ensuring that the Divisional Board completes and presents a plan for Executive sign-off.
• Oversee the divisional Board presentation to the divisional executive to ensure all issues are raised and recorded and any actions resulting are undertaken by the appropriate person.
• Manage the division operationally to include directing and monitoring the operational managers and their teams including supporting the Clinical Directors and service leads to deliver an effective patient centered service that meets the Trusts priorities.
• With the Divisional Head of Finance, ensure robust financial governance and manage financial resources in all areas and delivery of transformation programme’s.
• With the Clinical Directors, proactively engage in external initiatives to facilitate greater working across the local healthcare community and represent the Trust at a very senior level to institute integrating working in the best interests of patient care.
• Ensure agreed activity and service targets are achieved within agreed resources. Provide regular reports to the executive team on performance and planning as part of the taskforce team, as required.
• Maintain executive awareness and focus on delivering to performance metrics.

Requirements

• Substantial experience of managing a large, complex health, social or similar service.
• Success in working collaboratively with senior clinicians across multi-disciplinary professions and services.
• Demonstrable success in instigating/leading and managing change.
• Capacity management experience.
• Budget management of significant size and complexity across large numbers of specialties.

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