Group Director of Operations | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

The Group Director of Operations is a key leadership role with the Trust, responsible for the safe and effective delivery of services. The successful applicant will work as part of a triumvirate to deliver the strategic ambitions of the Trust.

The total Care Group budget to manage is £280 million and a staff group of circa 2800.

The post holder will be accountable for the performance of their Care Group alongside the Group Director of Nursing and Group Medical Director in delivering national and local health care priorities, ensuring clinical quality, delivery of all constitutional standards, patient safety, finance and improving patient and staff experience.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Strategically, the Care Group Director will have a key enabling role in aligning site operational priorities with the ambition and vision of supporting the delivery of the Dorset Clinical Services review.

This is an exciting time to join the team with the transformational and investment programme to transform the local area, creating a new, state-of-the-art elective and planned care hospital.

The successful individual will be an astute, driven, flexible and determined individual who has a proven history of successful relationship building to delivery our strategy. You will have a strong record of delivery and be considered inspirational and engaging by both staff and external partners.

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We are seeking to appoint a new Group Director of Operations to our Women's, Children, Cancer and Specialist Support Services (WCCSS). The Care Group is one of three Care Groups in the Trust, covering all aspects of emergency and planned care across a number of services including diagnostics, women's & children's services and cancer.

University Hospitals Dorset is one of Britain's leading healthcare providers in the NHS. It was created in October 2020 by bringing together two Trusts: Poole Hospital and Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospital.

The new Trust has a turnover of approximately £720m and employs over 9,000 members of staff.