Director of Operations for Surgery and Anaesthetics

We are seeking an outstanding Director of Operations for Surgery and Anaesthetics to join us at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust . You will be a key member of our Divisional Teams leading the Division, working collaboratively with clinical and corporate leaders to ensure we meet the national and local performance metrics, GIRFT, Model Hospital and CQC regulatory standards.

You will be accountable to the Chief Operating Officer of the hospital for the leadership, development and performance of the division. This will include working collaboratively across the Trust with Clinical Divisions, and in addition system health and social care alliance partners.

You will be pivotal in the coordination of operational delivery and performance across the hospital division, working closely with operational and clinical colleagues to drive service transformation and continuous improvement, while maintaining strong governance, financial control and regulatory compliance.

So, if you're looking for the opportunity to use your operational experience & expertise to promote positive change, we want to hear from you today!, Ensure that services are safe and offer quality staff and patient experience. The Director of Operations will ensure that appropriate support is provided to the Chief Operating Officer and Divisional Director, to facilitate compliance with required performance measures including against CQC recommendations and robust financial management. The Director of Operations will foster an effective style of team working within and across Divisions and corporate approach to decision making which ensures that wider corporate agenda is appropriately reflected within divisional priorities. The Director of Operations will ensure services maximise the opportunities of digital developments and will take a lead role in the assurance of the data quality agenda. Identify key stakeholders and develop excellent relationships and communications with and between them. Working collaboratively with them, across the local health and social care community to shape our local integrated service strategy and deliver
radical yet practical and sustainable change. Develop sustainable plans to ensure that clinical service delivery plans and improvement work becomes mainstream to support compliance with service standards and regulatory frameworks.

CHFT is an integrated acute and community Trust serving diverse communities across Calderdale and Kirklees, with strong partnerships across West Yorkshire. We are proud of our One Culture of Care -- caring for each other with the same compassion, kindness and respect that we show our patients -- and of the values that underpin how we work: we put people first, we go see, we work together to get results, and we do the must dos.

CHFT is recognised as a forward looking, digitally enabled Trust, with a strong track record of using data, innovation and system collaboration to improve quality, safety and outcomes. We are ambitious about the role that acute trusts play in prevention, population health and reducing inequalities, and this post sits at the heart of that agenda.