Job summary
- Main area
- Hospital Operations Director
- Grade
- ESM1
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6406670-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- London
- Town
- London / Leeds
- Salary
- £100,000 - £131,300 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Hospital Operations Director
ESM1
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Why you should apply:
We value the different experiences our people bring to their work. We're working to create an environment where everyone can make a full contribution no matter their background, identity, or circumstances. Which means, we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities.
Our work matters. You matter.
As an internal colleague, you may already have benefitted from a lot of what we have to offer. As a reminder:
We operate a hybrid working approach which offers you an informal, flexible way of blending home and office working.
Flexible working opportunities - we value and respect the diversity of our employees, and applications from prospective candidates who require flexible working arrangements are welcomed; these include part-time hours, job sharing, flexible hours and part-remote set ups.
27 days annual leave increasing to 33 days with service.
a generous pension (with our contribution equal to 20.6% of your earnings)
NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gym, mobile phones, and insurance.
employee benefit schemes including our Season Ticket Loan, Car Lease and Bike to Work schemes.
We use NHS Terms and Conditions of Service (Agenda for Change) pay rates. Most new employees to the NHS will start at the bottom of the band. You can find more information about Agenda for Change pay rates here Pay scales for 2023/24 | NHS Employers.
Main duties of the job
Next steps
Prepare your application, we want to know about you and why you feel you are suitable for this role. Think about what skills, knowledge and experience you can bring to this position and include in your personal statement.
Applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by email. You will be kept informed of the format of your assessment along with details of what to expect and timings.
If you require a reasonable adjustment or support with your application, please don’t hesitate to reach out and contact vacancy contact.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Outstanding clinical and operational leader who can build successful teams and has influential relationships
- Experience of large-scale transformation and people change management
- Experience of successfully leading, operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment at a regional and national level
Skills
Essential criteria
- Recognised credible clinical leader who is able to form and manage high performance, output driven teams.
- Relationship builder in a complex environments – comfortable building strong relationships at all levels internally and externally (DHSC, NHS Trusts, design organisations, construction organisations and the wider public sector) and being able to influence in complex stakeholder environments.
- Ability to develop, use, analyse and interpret data
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samiat Oke
- Job title
- Diary Manager for Transformation Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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