Associate Director of Patient Access and Performance

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton seeking a highly motivated, experienced and collaborative team player to be our next Associate Director of Patient Access and Performance.

This role is crucial to ensuring that excellent patient care is underpinned by solid processes that ensure the Trust is offering the best possible access to services in line with national guidance. You will also be responsible for ensuring that our operational teams are realising their full potential in improving performance against the national access standards working closely with our Divisional leaders.

Main duties of the job

An experienced data analyst you will be able to utilise the Trust's data systems to build performance reports that offer insight into service delivery and inform good decision making over actions to make improvements.

You will be able to work collaboratively with our Business Intelligence and Information teams and our contracts and planning teams to ensure that our performance data is effective and accurate and inform excellent reporting through to our Trust Board and NHS England

You will coordinate performance meetings that effectively hold our business unit teams to account for delivery and support Divisional Directors and the Deputy Chief Operating Officer to focus on the actions they need to take to ensure the right actions are being taken to prioritise timely patient care.

closing date: 4 August 2024

Interview date: 13 August 2024

If it sounds like your skills and enthusiasm match this advert then we'd love to hear from you. For an informal conversation prior to application please contact Raman Chhokar, Deputy Chief Operating Officer -raman.chhokar@nhs.net

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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