Job summary
The purpose of this Hospital Operations Director role is provide leadership for hospital operations in the operational readiness element of the New Hospital Programme. This involves taking handover from the construction team, commissioning, through to opening and post occupation learning.
The post holding will be responsible for setting standards for this phase, assurance against these standards and providing the delivery support to open the new hospital. Once opened they will also be responsible for post occupation learning, and sharing of this learning within the NHP team.
They will be responsible for building the team to deliver the purpose, managing this team and setting up matrix working to ensure input from across the Transformation Directorate.
To arrange an information conversation with Josie Rudman (NHP Transformation Director), please contact Hazel Brooks (hazelbrooks@nhs.net)
Main duties of the job
- Be an active participant in the New Hospital Programme, playing a key role as a hospital operations leader in the Programme and as part of the Programme's senior management team, deputising for the Transformation Director as required.
- Design and build a robust governance structure for the workstream that feeds into the overall programme governance. This should include cohort and scheme level preparedness and progress reporting.
- Build capability in the New Hospital Programme team to robustly support operational readiness (commissioning, preparedness, cutover, opening and post occupation evaluation), evaluate and learn from the inputs.
- Design and build a robust operational readiness review and assurance process for new hospitals which includes (but may not be limited to); Robust Governance , Building readiness, FM readiness, Equipment plan, training and familiarisation, ramp down and ramp up plan, communications plan (and media management), Go / No Go decision, cutover, CQC registration, training and familiarisation, workforce planning, move and migration planning, digital implantation and go live, Infection control and prevention readiness, room by room estate sign off plan and responsibilities.
- Support the development of an effective Programme delivery and operating model that moves hospital operational priorities from the policy development and design stage through to implementation and ultimately improved operational effectiveness and improved outcomes for patients.
About us
On 2 October 2020, the Prime Minister confirmed the Government's commitment to build 40 Hospitals between now and 2030 and released £3.7bn of initial capital funding to support work on these between now and 2025. In addition, he announced an open competition for a further 8 schemes to be built by 2030. The total cost of the programme is estimated at over £20bn.
The New Hospital Programme is in the Government's Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and is subject to processes and assurance led by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Acting upon IPA recommendations, the DHSC and NHSE are establishing a programme approach and mobilizing a joint programme level delivery capability, to:
- Effectively manage the schedule of hospital builds within market and resource constraints, to time, quality and cost;
- Engage with supply chain partners over the long term and incentivise those partners against delivery of outcomes across the whole programme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role's responsibilities and duties please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This role can be based at London / Leeds / Remote with National Travel required
*** Provisional Interview Date September 1st (Subject to Change) ***
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role's responsibilities and duties please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This role can be based at London / Leeds / Remote with National Travel required
*** Provisional Interview Date September 1st (Subject to Change) ***
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oOutstanding clinical and operational leader who can build successful teams and has influential relationships.
- oSuccessful deputy or Executive Director role on a hospital unitary board.
- oExperience of large-scale transformation and people change management.
- oStrategic experience of major programmes and projects.
- oExperience of successfully leading, operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment at a regional and national level.
- oExtensive knowledge of hospital operational design and redesign.
- oExtensive knowledge of quality standards including the KLOE and fundamental standards set out by the CQC and how to translate this into practice.
- oSuccess in moving hospital sites / departments and skills in emergency planning.
- oExtensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
- oEducated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- oExperience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
- oRegistered clinical health care professional.
- oRelationship builder in a complex environments - comfortable building strong relationships at all levels internally and externally (DHSC, NHS Trusts, design organisations, construction organisations and the wider public sector) and being able to influence in complex stakeholder environments.
Desirable
- No desirable criteria specified
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oOutstanding clinical and operational leader who can build successful teams and has influential relationships.
- oSuccessful deputy or Executive Director role on a hospital unitary board.
- oExperience of large-scale transformation and people change management.
- oStrategic experience of major programmes and projects.
- oExperience of successfully leading, operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment at a regional and national level.
- oExtensive knowledge of hospital operational design and redesign.
- oExtensive knowledge of quality standards including the KLOE and fundamental standards set out by the CQC and how to translate this into practice.
- oSuccess in moving hospital sites / departments and skills in emergency planning.
- oExtensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
- oEducated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- oExperience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
- oRegistered clinical health care professional.
- oRelationship builder in a complex environments - comfortable building strong relationships at all levels internally and externally (DHSC, NHS Trusts, design organisations, construction organisations and the wider public sector) and being able to influence in complex stakeholder environments.
Desirable
- No desirable criteria specified
Additional information
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
