Associate Director of Elective Recovery | Barts Health NHS Trust
We are looking for a motivated and experienced leader who can bring energy and focus to the Associate Director of Elective Recovery role. The successful candidate will be responsible for the development and delivery of NUH’s elective recovery programme alongside leading the Surgery & Cancer Division, as part of the Divisional Triumvirate, ensuring the provision of high-quality patient services.
It is an exciting time to join the NUH and the surgical division:
- NUH has been designated the Barts ambulatory surgical hub for general surgery and gynaecology, alongside the Barts HVLC hub for orthopaedics;
- NUH has recently opened a new and expanded critical care;
- NUH is looking to secure funding to refurbish two mothballed theatres on the Main Site – expanding the ambulatory elective centre on the main site to four theatres, and fully utilising the newly opened day-case unit; and
- NUH is at the heart of a Barts Health surgical strategy implementation – looking to build a centre of excellence in ambulatory surgery at NUH.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The Associate Director of Elective Recovery (ADoER) is responsible for the development and delivery of NUH’s elective recovery programme alongside ensuring the provision of high-quality patient services within the Division that are clinically sound, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trust’s priorities and performance targets.
The ADoER will provide strategic leadership at divisional level, ensure that there are appropriate systems and processes within the Division to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care and drive forward the service improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the operational effectiveness of the Division
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Oct 2024