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Job overview

Provision of patient centred diagnostics services is high priority aim for our system. In this role you will lead the system strategy to deliver our current and emerging plans. This includes maximising our community diagnostics centre expansion and ensuring we develop and deliver transformation and improvement across all out diagnostics modalities. With several major projects in progress and a new hospital to plan for, this role offers the right person an exciting challenge.

Main duties of the job

PURPOSE OF JOB: 

·       To review diagnostics provision across the Frimley Health & Care Integrated Care System and develop strategic plans to meet the needs of the population, providing sufficient capacity to support the NHS plan to diagnose 75% of cancers at stage 1&2 by 2028

·       To oversee a programme of activity to develop and deliver new and improved models of service/clinical pathways to facilitate increased capacity with current resources, prioritising delivering faster diagnosis of cancer across all modalities

·       To develop diagnostics policy at ICS level

·       To implement the agreed ICS diagnostics plans and policies including the plan to increase capacity and reduce diagnostics times through community diagnostic hubs

·       To support the benefits associated with diagnostics networks to deliver transformation and improve acquisition and reporting times

·       To develop services so that NHS targets are achieved, and patient experience is optimised

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.