Associate Director of Operations

Job summary

Job Title: Associate Director of Operations

Hours: Monday- Friday 9am-5pm (37.5 hours a week)

Trust Location: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS is the place for you.

About the Trust

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS trust plays a huge part in west Essex and east and north Hertfordshire's way of life.

The trust runs a busy hospital,The Princess Alexandra Hospital and provides services at St. Margaret's Hospital and Herts and Essex Hospital. Together serve a population of around 350,000 people.

Main duties of the job

Provide leadership, support, and direction, working collaboratively internally and across system partners, setting clear objectives to ensure services and working arrangements are designed to deliver integrated patient focussed care and enable delivery of the Trust strategy.

Lead, develop and motivate the senior staff to deliver innovative high quality, patient centred performance; ensuring that effective appraisal, development, and succession planning arrangements are in place.

Ensure clinical services and clinical management is responsive to the needs of patients, visitors, and staff and that there is a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Deliver all the mandated performance targets in service delivery within the agreed resources, in line with the agreed annual business plan, and Trust strategies and policies

Make and foster connections between divisions to enhance integrated working and care pathway approaches

Show a commitment to working in ways that demonstrate our values in all we do.

Translate the Trust corporate strategy into a clinical service strategy for the Division ensuring national/regional best practice is leveraged and there is alignment across other Divisional and Trust-wide plans.

Engage and collaborate with peers, stakeholders, and staff to develop a robust service improvement programme to deliver the expected patient safety and financial outcomes/benefits

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week

Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime

Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts

Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your My Bank shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more

Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

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