Divisional Director

There will also be opportunities for the Divisional Directors to lead each Division's research and educational activities and pursue optimum working relationships with the Universities, Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)/BRU and the Health Innovation Network. As a Divisional Director, you will be a committed, motivated and engaged member of the senior leadership team, with strong clinical experience working to support the Executive Team and determined to deliver world class and compassionate services to all our patients, users and stakeholders. There has never been a more important or indeed more compelling time to join our Trust in roles which offer scale, complexity, challenge, personal development and impact. We care passionately about the delivery of world-class patient care, enabling a culture that supports innovation, cutting-edge research and education and you, as a senior leader will be pivotal in enabling us to achieve just that.

• Professionally qualified and clinically credible with a post-registration qualification
• Have knowledge of the NHS, its infrastructure and the recent reforms
Desirable criteria
• Postgraduate management/ further study qualification, Experience of working within the NHS within a hospital environment, preferably a teaching hospital
• Experience in managing clinical services
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance gained from experience of working with such systems
• Have a personal vision for the future of clinical services, developed in the context of credible past experience, personal beliefs and the Trust's strategy, combined with the ability to inspire others and translate strategic objectives into operational plans
• Clear in-depth understanding of one of the Trust's key corporate strategic priorities (urgent care, elective care, cancer, partnerships)
• Experience of building and developing high performing teams
• Proven ability to communicate, work effectively with and influence a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally
Desirable criteria
• Experience of change management
• Experience of working within a devolved management structure, Have the capacity to analyse problems in a logical and structure way, generating optional and innovative solutions and adapting approaches to problem-solving to achieve sustainable outcomes
• Be able to anticipate problems, to understand the driving forces behind problems, or potential problems and being able to identify and use levers to achieve change
• Be skilled in influencing and negotiating internally and externally and using these skills to gain the best deal for the Trust and the clinical services
• Have the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities
• Be articulate and skilled in presenting ideas to others
• Have the ability to seek out, recognise and pursue opportunities
• Highly developed leadership, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and teams See management as an open, involving and participative process. Have good insight and be able to handle constructive criticism. Proven ability to work in partnership with managers and other clinicians. Demonstrate tenacity in dealing with issues. Demonstrate the ability to hold clinical colleagues to account
• Have the proven ability to operate and think laterally at operational and strategic levels, with good analytical skills. Be articulate with practised and developed communication and presentation skills. Be innovative and responsive to change. Be industrious and versatile. Be tactful, diplomatic and at ease with all kinds of people. Demonstrate an understanding of quality assurance activity. Able to participate in the Director on-call rota, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest NHS teaching hospital trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in education and research. Our Trust consists of four hospitals - the Churchill Hospital, the John Radcliffe Hospital (which also includes the Children's Hospital, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre, West Wing and Women's Centre) and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our turnover in 2023/24 was over £1.5bn and we employ over 15,000 staff. During 2023/2024 we saw 155,776 emergency department attendances, 95,207 elective inpatient activity and 1,291,257 elective outpatient activity., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel., Please note that this role is being managed by Odgers Berndston, any applications that the Trust receives will be provided to the agency named contact.