Total 5 Director/C-Level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies

The Divisional Medical Director (Divisional MD) will work with the Divisional Director of Operations (DDO) and Divisional Director of Nursing/Midwifery, AHPs and Quality (DDNM) in a triumvirate management structure. The Divisional MD is expected to take accountability for the Division, working jointly with the triumvirate including the delivery of agreed local and national quality and performance standards within budgetary and resource availability. The successful candidates will also assist the Director Divisional Director of Operations in supporting the Trusts role as a key player in providing high quality health services in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid-Wales and to help guide the Trust in maximising its commercial opportunities and strengthening its collaborative partnership working. The Divisional MD will also have responsibility for the strategic development of clinical services within the division and with colleagues, the delivery of that strategy. The Divisional MD will ensure that services adopt a continuous improvement approach. Together with the other members of the triumvirate, the Divisional MD will provide clinical leadership to the Division, ensuring that all clinical staff are aligned with the Division's and Trust's objectives and are working in effective multi-disciplinary/multi-professional teams. The Divisional MD will work with the DDNM to ensure that robust systems for clinical governance are implemented and maintained for all services.

The full job description & application pack 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 documents, please view the attachment/s on this page. To find out more about this exceptional opportunity, please see www.odgers.com/91569 for a candidate brief containing application instructions, or contact us on 020 7518 2612 for a confidential discussion.

Surrey Downs Health & Care

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, ambitious and highly motivated individual to join the management team of Surrey Downs Integrated Care Partnership as the Deputy Chief Operating Officer.

The Deputy Chief Operating Officer would ensure effective service development, operational management, and delivery of high-quality patient services across all clinical areas within Specialist Services and also support the PCNs.

Applicants for this innovative and dynamic role should have values in line with our Trust values and will need to have demonstrable experience of monitoring and managing performance & quality targets and budgets at a high level. They will have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and will need to understand and report on complex performance information.

Deputy Chief Operating Officer role includes operationally leading Specialist Services teams and supporting Chief Operating Officer by working with PCN Operational Managers in timely service Delivery. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, and working in partnership with Clinical Leads, Strategic Directors, Nursing and Multi-professional Directors to deliver patient services. The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will work in the operational delivery, operational performance, financial performance, governance, and change and business delivery across the SDHC. Working alongside the Chief Operating Officer in the delivery of financial, quality, performance, productivity and workforce targets, agreed as part of the business planning, appraisal and personal development process.

The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will have the responsibility of leading the Specialist Services teams, which will include management of clinical and operational managers responsible for service and performance, to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of high-quality patient-centered care. In addition, they will work closely with the 6 PCN Hubs Operational Managers to achieve overall delivery of services across SDHC.

The post holder will be accountable for establishing and maintaining effective structures and systems of control for the management of staff, including recruitment, appraisal, continuing professional development, and support of the Trust’s Human Resource policies and procedures.



Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centric care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes
• The three GP federations representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• CSH Surrey
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

We collectively aspire to be an exemplar of how to deliver the highest quality and best value care in a complex health and care environment.

Leadership & Performance Management
1. As part of the Senior management team to provide leadership to the SDHC staff, ensuring clear communication of Trust vision, priorities and expectations to ensure the engagement of teams to deliver services of the highest quality.
2. Role model positive leadership behaviours by living the Trust’s values and visibly leading on promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the job role
3. Responsible for managing the complex nature of the business area, ensuring that the appropriate strategic plans are delivered within the operating framework.
4. In conjunction with the Directors develop and deliver the strategy and performance management of clinical services including PCN and Planned care.
5. Take a leading role working with a range of complex clinical specialties and other support departments to improve throughput in community care settings.
6. Holding Operational Managers and Lead Clinicians to account for delivery of their objectives through regular performance review meetings.
7. Provide a professional, senior management contribution across the SDHC, working in partnership with the Directors and Clinical Leads and others to deliver cost efficient, high quality and responsive services.
8. Ensuring sufficient data availability within SDHC to monitor and track performance and to satisfy reporting requirements.
9. Have a senior role in the development of the SDHC working with internal and external partners.
10. Lead on and deliver a number of key SDHC strategic and operational programmes.
11. Providing appropriate input and challenge to clinical and business plans where necessary.
12. Hold overall responsibility for the financial budget of the multiple specialist services to optimise resource management and broader Surrey Downs Health and Care operate within agreed annual budget.
13. Identify risk and implement mitigation actions, and report significant risks and proposed actions through the SDHC Governance with onward escalation to the Partnership Board as appropriate.
14. Minimise boundaries between services, both within and outside the Specialist Services and PCNs to maximize the impact of integrated care pathways.
15. Provide leadership to the community staff within the Specialist Services ensuring recruitment, appraisal, CPD and performance is completed as per trust targets.
16. Working closely with professional leads. Manage capacity forecast, strategic and operational delivery
17. Ensure that the Specialist Services and PCN complies with all the relevant policies and procedures that relate to Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust.
18. Provide the Board with timely reports through an agreed Dashboard to provide assurance as to the performance of the Specialist Services and PCNs including identification of mitigating actions
19. Create effective working relationships with each of the partners to achieve effective use of resources or enhanced quality and productivity, as appropriate.



Quality, Corporate and Clinical Governance
1. Ensure that the services are focused on the needs of patients and clients.
2. Implement changes relating to Friends and Family and other feedback relating to the service.
3. Ensure that quality and environmental standards are achieved as per CQC specifications.
4. Ensure high standards of cleanliness and infection control.
5. Maintain and develop strong systems for clinical and corporate governance.
6. Ensure that Community Specialist services and PCN are focused on the needs of patients and clients.
7. Ensure all staff have objectives and personal development plans. Be responsible for identifying areas of individual performance improvement and work closely in partnership with the employing organisation to address and resolve.
8. Promote the implementation of key HR initiatives/targets and HR policies/practices.
9. Actively promote and encourage training, development and educational opportunities for staff and ensure the development of an annual training plan
10. Ensure appropriate communication and staff involvement structures are in place for all Surrey Downs Health and Care staff.
11. Ensure the implementation of Surrey Downs Health and Care’s Clinical Governance, Health and Safety and Risk Management policies and plans, and monitor compliance and implementation within SD Health and Care
12. Ensure that SD Health and Care uses national assessment, controls assurance, CNST, RPST and Standards for Better Health to improve practice and patient safety.
13. Oversee the management and response to any complaints and present a summary report to the board.



Development and transformation of services within SDHC and system wide
1. Work as part of the senior management team in developing detailed business plans.
2. Lead and encourage redesign of services, and embed new ways of working which support patient care aims.
3. Be alert to changes in clinical practice/behaviour and patient expectations and take account of the potential impacts in planning/delivering services.
4. Contribute to the planning, marketing and commissioning of services.
5. Ensure patient involvement in the evaluation and redesign of all planned care services.
6. Establish links with external agencies that will ensure the continued development of new ways of working and collaboration on key tasks within the health economy.
7. Ensure patient involvement in the evaluation and redesign of services.
8. Support the development of an annual capacity plan, activity profile and operational plan which achieves the quality and access targets agreed for Planned Care.
9. Develop Surrey Downs Health and Care organisational culture and demonstrate agreed values and behaviours.
10. Build processes with people as partners in the co-design and co-production of services leading to empowerment of people and involvement in decision making.
11. Work collaboratively with health and social care partners to achieve optimal care for people as close to their home as possible.
12. Participate in the introduction of new pathways and ways of working, taking the lead for ensuring successful local mobilisation and benefits realisation.
13. Embed service improvement methodology and a culture of continuous improvement.
14. Develop an annual capacity plan, activity profile and operational plan which achieves the quality and access targets agreed for Surrey Downs Health and Care.
15. Support with delivery of SDHCP wide transformation programmes working
16. Lead on the development of end to end pathways and system service improvement programmes
17. Work with clinical and administrative colleagues from across the system, to help achieve sustained improvements, including in the following areas Clinical quality, Patient experience and Financial efficiency
18. Support development of programmes of work, delivery timelines and actions plans to oversee the development of change
19. Provide project management support and operational leadership Lead and co-design the SDHC matrix management arrangements to support the Chief Operating Officer in relation to the overall achievement of benefits and outcomes and lead identified cross-alliance programmes as agreed
20. Hold lead responsibility for ensuring the provision of high-quality and localised support from corporate services including HR, finance, IT, contracts and analytics and communications.
21. Undertake any other duties that may be required following discussion & agreement with the Chair of the Board
22. In all activities undertaken, adhere to the Code of Conduct for NHS Managers (Oct 2002) and relevant healthcare professional bodies.
23. To participate in on call arrangements

Please find the attached Job Description and Person specification for more details about the vacancy


This advert closes on Thursday 23 May 2024

Statistical Science Director - Early Oncology

Location: Macclesfield (UK)

Competitive salary and benefits

We are open to discussing working part-time (min 0.8FTE)

Play a critical role in making our pipeline accessible to patients.

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, Biostatistics? Would you like to apply your skills to impact all phases of drug development and regulatory interactions, in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious disease. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

Join the team dedicated to Oncology, with an ambition to eliminate cancer as a cause of death. It's our big vision that unites and inspires us. With multiple indications and high-quality molecules at all stages of our innovative pipeline, we keep pushing forward. Fusing cutting-edge science with the latest technology to achieve breakthroughs. Backed by investment, we are aiming to deliver 6 new molecular entities by 2025.

We work on some of the most complex and interesting challenges. A fast-paced and agile team, we are empowered and trusted to innovate and experiment. With access to our extensive capabilities and comprehensive pipeline, you'll be involved in countless submissions and a wide range of engaging projects along the complete drug development process.

Main duties and responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible in leading the strategic, statistical thinking and contributions to the Development Plans, Regulatory Strategy, Health Technology Assessment and Commercial Presentation for indications/projects within an AZ product team.

You will provide leadership to statistical staff on the indications/projects so that all work is carried out with regards to AZ standards and external regulations; through partnership with experts, developing design options and providing high quality decision support to enable the business to make informed decisions; quantifying the benefit, risk, value and uncertainty of the emerging product profile.

You will be holding CRO/Partners accountable for the high quality standards of their deliverables. You will represent AZ and Statistics to Health Authorities and Reimbursement/Payer Organisations for specific projects/indications.

You will apply expert skills to investigate, apply novel statistical approaches, for relevant statistical issues and/or regulatory guidance and/or value demonstration. You will mentor/coach and support the education and training of Statistics staff in the technical arena.

Requirements

Essential

• MSc or PhD degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, or related quantitative fields, or equivalent course work/ technical experience
• Understanding of regulations/developments in the area of Clinical Development and Biostatistics
• Appropriate experience as a statistician for the relevant position level with clinical trials, pharmaceutical development, regulated research, and/or related areas of statistical applications
• A collaborative mindset
• A general dedication to and ability to apply expertise to problem solving
• Experience with relevant statistical software
• Ability to apply statistical techniques in the analysis of data from clinical studies or other significant are

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There's no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We're on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what's next?

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.
• Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it's yours.

Where can I find out more?

• Our Social Media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/
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Date advert opened: 11th March 2024

Date advert closed for applications: 4th April 2024

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Please refer to job description and person specification for full details Where the post is a temporary position there may be a possibility of the post becoming permanent. All posts can be considered as development opportunities if applicants do not meet the essential criteria at the time of appointment but would be able to meet this in a reasonable time frame. Vacancies may close early if a high volume of applications are received.