About this role
Job summary
This is a pivotal senior leadership role at the heart of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with responsibility for two of our hospitals and for developing our partnerships across the communities we serve.
As Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships, you will provide senior operational leadership for St Mary's Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital, ensuring the safe, effective and high-quality delivery of services every day. You will lead some of the capital's busiest and most complex services, working alongside clinical and operational leaders to deliver excellent care, improve performance and create the conditions in which our people can do their best work.
But this role is about much more than running hospitals.
You will lead our operational relationships and partnerships across Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, working with local authorities, primary and community care, the voluntary sector and other partners to develop more integrated models of care and strengthen the connection between our hospitals and the communities they serve.
This is an opportunity to take on one of the most significant operational leadership roles within Imperial: leading major hospitals, influencing care across place and system, shaping substantial change and improvement, and working directly with the Chief Operating Officer and wider executive team to deliver our ambitions for patients, staff and communities.
Main duties of the job
The Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships provides managerial leadership to the hospital sites, motivating and supporting staff to deliver the objectives of the Trust and hospital site to ensure the best possible patient experience and care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. The Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships will act as the Trust's senior representative within the local health and care system for the communities served by the hospital. The postholder will build trusted relationships across organisational boundaries to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population, strengthen integration between services and ensure that the hospital plays a leading role as an anchor institution within its local community. The role requires significant influence without direct authority, bringing together leaders from across organisations to develop shared solutions to complex operational and strategic challenges. The Hospital Director and Director of System Partnerships works with the Divisional and Directorate management teams, and the Executive Team, to support the day to day empowerment local teams to resolve issues at site level by cross divisional working and pulling together all site based support services. This includes site based bed management and admissions.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
Job description Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications Essential
Significant experience of managing services in a complex healthcare setting, including substantial experience at senior management level. Successful track record of staff management, financial management, performance and change management
Experience Essential
Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
Desirable
Demonstrable success of managing major incidents using detailed knowledge and experience of the concepts of emergency planning within a very complex multi-site organisation
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities Essential
Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
Behaviours Essential
Evidence of visible, inclusive and compassionate leadership at an equivalent senior level
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship 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).
Employer details Employer name Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Address Trust Wide
London
W2 1NY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)