Outpatients Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Outpatient Manager Taunton Hospital | Nursing | Permanent Contract | Full Time Up to £54,000 per annum depending on experience 37.5 hours per week Nuffield Health is the UK's largest Healthcare Charity. We're passionate about building a healthier nation. And we're shaping an outstanding Outpatient experience by giving our nursing colleagues more time to care and get to know our patients. It starts with great leadership. It starts with you. As our Outpatients Manager, you'll be a clinically registered professional with postregistration experience in Outpatients or a similar acute setting. You'll bring strong leadership capability, ideally gained in a Team Leader or equivalent role, and the confidence to guide, support and develop a highperforming clinical team. You will provide strong clinical leadership to the department, assuming overall accountability for clinical effectiveness and operational management. You'll ensure care is patientcentred, evidencebased, innovative and delivered by a trained, motivated and compassionate team. As part of the senior clinical leadership team, you'll also contribute to local strategy and champion clinical standards across the hospital. As our Outpatients Manager, you will: * Lead and oversee the Outpatients Department, including Diagnostics, Preoperative Assessment, and Minor Procedures, ensuring highquality and efficient service delivery. * Review clinic capacity and utilisation to enhance consultant accessibility and support effective scheduling. * Collaborate with consultants to optimise clinic templates and maximise use of available space and resources. * Manage outpatient equipment to ensure all assets remain safe, compliant and fit for purpose. * Identify and drive service improvement opportunities, contributing to capital planning and investment proposals where appropriate. * Improve patient flow and reduce waiting times, ensuring a seamless and positive experience for all patients. * Use performance data and insight to inform service development, enhance efficiency and support strategic decisionmaking. * Lead, support and develop the Outpatients team, fostering a positive, highperforming and collaborative working environment. * Ensure delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care in line with clinical standards, governance requirements and organisational values. * Provide strong clinical leadership, maintaining accountability for clinical quality, operational performance and regulatory compliance. Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you. Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital. Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is one of the leading providers of private healthcare in the South West. We've built a reputation for clinical excellence and outstanding patient care over the last 50 years. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role. It starts with you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• As our Outpatients Manager, you'll be a clinically registered professional .

Experience

Essential

• As our Outpatients Manager, you'll be a clinically registered professional with postregistration experience in Outpatients or a similar acute setting. You'll bring strong leadership capability, ideally gained in a Team Leader or equivalent role, and the confidence to guide, support and develop a highperforming clinical team.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nuffield Health

Address

Showell Park

Taunton

TA2 6AN

Employer's website

https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)