Job summary
Director of Elective Care (Recovery)
Post fixed term 9 months.
With a focus on NOTSSCaN Division, the programme objectives are to support for a 6 - 9-month period helping deliver the NOTSSCAN element of the elective recovery plan and ensure that the governance supports timely decision making, communicates escalations rapidly and updates on progress against key milestones and KPIs.
The support will add pace, coordination and broker clinical discussions so that the Divisional Directors are allowed headspace to make sure key priorities are achieved.
Main duties of the job
The objectives are therefore grouped under four main areas:
1. Provide operational support as part of the divisional leadership team
2. Review recovery plans, making recommendations to the Executive team and assure the delivery against agreed trajectories seeking, where possible, to mitigate any risks associated with current recovery plans
3. Support the elimination of 65-week waits, in line with recovery plan trajectories
4. Support delivery of agreed activity plans back to required levels - performing deep dives to understand why currently lower than planned and develop recovery actions to increase value weighted activity, and ERF.
The Director of Elective Care will work closely with the relevant leads to deliver the service component of the long-wait recovery plan by:
- Representing the division with IS providers and owning the delivery of activity levels with commissioned ISPs.
- Working with the divisional leaders to unblock any challenges that may prevent delivery of key milestones
- Provide service leadership and identify additional actions and implement to support the recovery agenda.
- Make sure the divisional components of the recovery plan are on track, any variation is understood in real time, to enable an agile response if required to mitigate against under delivery.
- Escalate any concerns that will impact on the delivery of the recovery plan and be part of the solution to resolve.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This programme of work will provide additional capacity to the leadership team and work as a 4th member of the Tri to provide support to take the right action at the right time and drive the elective recovery plans against trajectories.
Initially it is assumed this will include a rapid review of performance and whether plans are fit for purpose, focusing on what recovery plans are in place, what progress is being made, and monitoring and assurance of existing / revised plans.
The role throughout this time will focus on a coaching methodology to provide additional leadership & support to the team.
The necessary support for the work including BI, project management, improvement expertise and PA support will be from the existing Divisional team, and the post will be included as a Quad in all things for recovery finance, elective, activity related.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This programme of work will provide additional capacity to the leadership team and work as a 4th member of the Tri to provide support to take the right action at the right time and drive the elective recovery plans against trajectories.
Initially it is assumed this will include a rapid review of performance and whether plans are fit for purpose, focusing on what recovery plans are in place, what progress is being made, and monitoring and assurance of existing / revised plans.
The role throughout this time will focus on a coaching methodology to provide additional leadership & support to the team.
The necessary support for the work including BI, project management, improvement expertise and PA support will be from the existing Divisional team, and the post will be included as a Quad in all things for recovery finance, elective, activity related.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a Master's degree or equivalent post-graduate qualification or equivalent level of experience
- Postgraduate management qualification/evidence of leadership and management development
Experience
Essential
- Substantial operational management experience in the NHS at a senior level, including experience in an acute setting
- Experience of leading and managing teams through change and embedding service improvements
- Experience of developing and providing regular reports on progress against activity and other targets so that performance variances can be highlighted
- Experience of business planning techniques and improving/managing business systems and processes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a Master's degree or equivalent post-graduate qualification or equivalent level of experience
- Postgraduate management qualification/evidence of leadership and management development
Experience
Essential
- Substantial operational management experience in the NHS at a senior level, including experience in an acute setting
- Experience of leading and managing teams through change and embedding service improvements
- Experience of developing and providing regular reports on progress against activity and other targets so that performance variances can be highlighted
- Experience of business planning techniques and improving/managing business systems and processes
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
