Divisional Operations Director - Clinical Delivery and Family Services

Job responsibilities

This is a role for someone who thrives in complexity, inspires confidence, and is motivated by making real improvements for patients and staff.

We are seeking a leader who brings:

• Extensive senior management experience within the NHS.
• A proven track record of strategic and operational leadership, including service improvement at scale.
• Strong financial acumen, with experience managing significant budgets.
• Exceptional communication and relationship building skills.
• Highly developed analytical, problem solving and decision making abilities.
• A passion for patient centred care and a commitment to living our values: Working Together, With Compassion, As One Team, Always Improving.

Why Join Us?

At Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, you will be part of an ambitious organisation committed to delivering high quality care and improving outcomes for our local communities. We offer:

• A strong, supportive senior leadership network.
• Opportunities to contribute to Trust wide strategy and major transformation programmes.
• A culture that values innovation, staff wellbeing, and professional development.
• The chance to shape new models of care and lead divisional improvements that make a real difference.

For further details, please see enclosed Job Description.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level,
• Premier post graduate qualification e.g. Master of Business Administration (MBA) or the equivalent applied post-graduation management learning relating to a number of disciplines in Business Management, Finance, Accountancy, Marketing, Information Systems or People Management.
• Membership of a clinical and/or management professional body.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Previous successful management experience, at a senior level.
• Leading and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation.
• Developing and translating business strategy into operational delivery.
• Managing operating budgets and delivering financial surplus.
• Leading and performance-managing teams and individuals.
• Extensive senior management experience within the NHS.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Strong customer service skills.
• Judgments involving complex facts or situations, which requires analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• Exercise expert reasoning and professional judgment to resolve complex problems including areas such as procurement and management support, service delivery and supporting arrangements
• Highly developed leadership skills.
• Ability to quickly establish effective working relationships and develop strong team working.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of clinical / corporate governance and risk management systems.
• Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills, able to gain and maintain credibility with senior clinicians.
• Highly effective presenter, with the ability to present reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing.
• Highly developed analytical skills.
• Proficiency in the use of ICT applications to support efficient work activity, including the analysis, interpretation and presentation of complex data.
• Ability to manage priorities in order to meet specific deadlines.
• Ability to hold direct and non-direct reports to account.
• Detailed knowledge of Clinical Quality and Safety methodologies.
• Detailed knowledge of Clinical and Corporate Governance frameworks, legislation and best practice.
• Personal Qualities:
• Demonstrates high levels of self-belief, drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through.
• Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovative solutions.
• Excellent judgement.
• Ability to achieve consistently good results in an inclusive and collaborative manner.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
• Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables.
• Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance).
• High degree of political awareness.
• Displays innovative and lateral thinking.
• Prepared to work totally flexibly.
• High degree of self-awareness.
• Ability to maintain confidence, at all times.
• High levels of personal integrity and loyalty.
• Intellectual flexibility enabling reasoned assessment of a situation and able to draw pragmatic conclusions.
• Ability to broad scan to keep abreast of developments in the Health Care sector.
• Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).