Hospital Operations Assistant Director - London, United Kingdom - NHS England

NHS England

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

The New Hospital Programme's (NHP) vision statement is:
"To transform the delivery of national healthcare infrastructure across the NHS to provide world-leading experiences for as many patients and staff as possible."

The NHP is established as a multi-functional national programme team, to drive the programme and individual project activity.

The Hospital Operations (HO) workstream is part of the Transformation Directorate which supports the NHP vision and strategic objectives from an operations lens.

The work is currently formed around 3 areas:

Hospital 2.0 Target Operating Model
Assurance
Operational Readiness
Estates and Facilities Management

The Operational Readiness (OR) team will deliver proactive and systematic planning and preparations in the years and months prior to a hospital receiving patients to ensure the required processes and systems are in place to transition the patients and workforce safely and effectively and to realise the Trust's Full Business Case benefits at the earliest opportunity.

The OR team is currently working towards 5 key deliverables:

OR project milestones
OR engagement with trusts
OR support tools and documents
OR reporting
OR maturity assessment framework

As Hospital Operations Assistant Director, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in the Hospital Operations Workstream of the New Hospital Programme, providing support to the Deputy Director of Hospital Operations to deliver the Hospital Operations strategy.

They will collaborate with other workstreams and directorates to coordinate the respective responses for optimal Operational Readiness.

This will encompass the strategic response, assurance activities, supportive approaches during operational commissioning, readiness, activation, decommissioning and post occupancy evaluations to share learning opportunities.

You will need to work with the wider team to create evidence-based operating model for new hospitals and set about answering any areas that are not understood with research learning from and capturing the voice of Patient, Public and professional groups.

NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all.

We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.

Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care - NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector - to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.

From April 2023, NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital became one single organisation, putting workforce, data, digital and technology at the heart of our plans to transform the NHS.

Main Duties continued:

You will work as part of the Hospital Operations Senior Leadership team (Hospital Operations Director, Deputy Directors for Hospital Operations and Assistant Director/s) to develop an ongoing program of work to address operational elements of the Transformation Directorate workplan.

Together you will develop a learning culture in the team to enable iterative plan development to enhance the patient and staff experience in the New Hospital Programme.

The post holder will deliver an efficient, effective, and high quality professional and well-co-ordinated operational service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the organisation.

The post holder should possess a track record of leading and resolving complex issues and implementing change in large organisations/systems including experience at senior operational level in and acute healthcare environment.

You will lead specific pieces of programme work on the direction of the Deputy Director of Hospital Operations to deliver overall work plan objectives.

Will be expected to critically analyse business cases and provide constructive with evaluation and lead on the development of the workstream strategy and strategically plan future programmes of work.

As the New Hospital Programme is evolving, the precise nature of the role may need to change as the programme becomes established and agreed.

The post holder will need to work flexibly across several delivery areas and locations.

You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Salary Progression

Applicants will commence at the bottom of Band 8d with a full-time starting salary of £83,571 with a pay step increase after 5 years' service.

This is offered in accordance with NHS Terms and Conditions and is based on office locat