Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships

Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships VSM

Main area Very Senior Management (VSM) Grade VSM Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 290-VSM-8

Site Trust Wide Town London Salary £100,000 - £140,000 pa inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 25/10/:59

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

This is a pivotal senior leadership role at the heart of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with responsibility for two of our hospitals and for developing our partnerships across the communities we serve.

As Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships, you will provide senior operational leadership for St Mary's Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital, ensuring the safe, effective and high-quality delivery of services every day. You will lead some of the capital's busiest and most complex services, working alongside clinical and operational leaders to deliver excellent care, improve performance and create the conditions in which our people can do their best work.

But this role is about much more than running hospitals.

You will lead our operational relationships and partnerships across Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, working with local authorities, primary and community care, the voluntary sector and other partners to develop more integrated models of care and strengthen the connection between our hospitals and the communities they serve.

This is an opportunity to take on one of the most significant operational leadership roles within Imperial: leading major hospitals, influencing care across place and system, shaping substantial change and improvement, and working directly with the Chief Operating Officer and wider executive team to deliver our ambitions for patients, staff and communities.

Main duties of the job

• The Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships provides managerial leadership to the hospital sites, motivating and supporting staff to deliver the objectives of the Trust and hospital site to ensure the best possible patient experience and care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.
• The Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships will act as the Trust's senior representative within the local health and care system for the communities served by the hospital. The postholder will build trusted relationships across organisational boundaries to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population, strengthen integration between services and ensure that the hospital plays a leading role as an anchor institution within its local community.
• The role requires significant influence without direct authority, bringing together leaders from across organisations to develop shared solutions to complex operational and strategic challenges.
• The Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships works with the Divisional and Directorate management teams, and the Executive Team, to support the day to day empowerment local teams to resolve issues at site level by cross divisional working and pulling together all site based support services. This includes site based bed management and admissions.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification Education/ Qualifications

• Significant experience of managing services in a complex healthcare setting, including substantial experience at senior management level. Successful track record of staff management, financial management, performance and change management

Experience

• Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
• Demonstrable success of managing major incidents using detailed knowledge and experience of the concepts of emergency planning within a very complex multi-site organisation

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations
• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals

Behaviours

• Evidence of visible, inclusive and compassionate leadership at an equivalent senior level

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK

We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with general data protection regulation (GDPR).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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