Full Time - Associate Director of Elective Delivery- Band 8D

NHS Surrey Heartlands works in partnership with local health and care organisations - along with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint, supporting the overall objectives of our wider integrated care system; to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area.

To deliver our objectives we need a team of talented, collaborative professionals who share the same vision and are passionate about what they do.

Are you the person we're looking for? Do you have the experience to lead the team responsible for the delivery of Surrey Heartlands' Elective Care, Cancer and Personalised Outpatient transformation programmes and the implementation of our Diagnostic strategy, working across our Trust Provider Collaborative?

You'll have significant experience working in acute providers, solid understanding of delivery of operational standards, and the link to improving equity of access and addressing unwarranted variation, across multiple providers. The successful candidate will be a creative thinker, able to consider innovative ways of transforming clinical pathways and skilled in working with senior clinical and managerial colleagues, You'll lead and work with System partners to address equity of access across elective waits, reducing unwarranted variation and improving productivity, while maintaining high standards. You'll be responsible for working with Chief Operating Officers and provider teams to ensure delivery of key elective standards. With your team, you'll ensure reporting and monitoring of compliance with national standards, identify when corrective action is needed. Key relationships include Trust Provider Collaborative partners, NHSE elective leads, ICB executives and clinical networks, Leading the elective delivery team, the Associate Director is accountable for ensuring programmes of transformation are delivered:

• Innovative patient pathways to improve patient outcomes, such as musculoskeletal, dermatology and ophthalmology redesign.


• Work with COOs to deliver mutual aid across SH, so people waiting for elective treatment (OP and IP) do not experience unwarranted variation in access


• With providers and the cancer alliance, develop and deliver clinical pathways and sustain service performance


• Work with population health to reduce health inequalities through targeted interventions within populations.


• Ensure implementation and monitoring of standardised clinical pathways to reduce unwarranted variation, such as cancer best practice timed pathways.


• Lead the SH Diagnostic Strategy and sustainable Community Diagnostic Centre model, providing system leadership for the SE2 Imaging Network.
  
  Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) since July 2022, working through 4 Integrated, dynamic, and sustainable place-based partnerships (our Places), each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey.


The 4 Place partnerships are known as