Detailed job description and main responsibilities Delivery of safe, high quality patient care • Create an environment within the directorate that makes care, safety and patient satisfaction everyone's first concern. • Ensure that high quality clinical services are delivered in line with the Trust's Quality Strategy and available financial resources. Clinical Governance • Actively involve and lead directorate staff in the delivery of clinical governance, working in accordance with Trust systems, processes and priorities. • Ensure that directorate responsibilities with respect to external assessments e.g. Risk Management and the Care Quality Commission are fulfilled. Operational planning and delivery • Oversee the operational delivery of all services within the Directorate, namely: The Kensington Wing, The Fertility Centre, and private inpatient and outpatient services. Facilitate and support the delivery of Private Care throughout the Trust including in areas outside the direct control of the directorate. Strategy and Service Improvement • Work with the Clinical Director and Head of Business Development to develop consultant relationships and support business growth. Performance management • Ensure both private and NHS services are delivered in line with required activity and income plans, maintaining control of expenditure, improving value for money and ensuring continued service development in relation to efficiency and quality. Financial and physical resources • Work with the Finance Business Partner to analyse the monthly financial position, develop a robust forecast, explain key movements in income and costs, and develop mitigating actions where necessary. • Ensure the optimum use of resources, establishing and maintaining an effective management process to ensure financial control. Strategic planning and change delivery • Support the development and delivery of the commercial strategy for Private Care • Work with the Head of Business Development to support the delivery of the business plan for the Directorate. Human resource management • Ensure that best practice human resource management is applied throughout the directorate. • Provide leadership and support to all staff, including medical staff, and act as a role model. Person specification Education Essential criteria Educated to degree level/equivalent Evidence of further study Experience Essential criteria Significant track record of senior level management experience gained in a complex acute hospital setting Private care experience Desirable criteria Project management experience Skills and knowledge Essential criteria Skills and knowledge Important The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful. In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post. During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided. Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period. Employer certification / accreditation badges