Group Director of Operations: Primary Care, Community and Therapies

at  Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

We are seeking to appoint a new Group Director of Operations to provide operational leadership to our Primary Care, Community and Therapies Group. If you are an ambitious and compassionate leader with a passion for achieving the highest possible standards of care for citizens, we want to hear from you. Our patients, people and population are at the heart of everything we do and we need a highly motivated, diligent individual who can inspire teams to operate at the highest level.
We will provide extensive opportunities for development and support the right person to develop and fulfil their long term ambitions within NHS leadership. You will work with a wide range of partners within the Trust across the local Place partnerships and the wider system. This will enable both operational and strategic development with unique opportunities across all sectors.
In turn we need someone with extensive knowledge of community services, an excellent communicator who can influence at the highest level.
As the most senior operational position within the professional management team, you will be responsible for the day to day delivery and leadership of services to patients in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints.
You will lead the Group which consists of 5 directorates including:
ICares
iBeds
Ambulatory Therapies & EOL General Practice Directorate Community Medicine
Urgent Community Response
You will provide line management to the Directorate Leads and be an integral part of the Trust leadership structure
The Primary Care, Community and Therapies Group is diverse with a range of specialties, professionals and services. We provide all Trust delivered adult out of hospital care and work closely with the local Place Based Partnerships. As part of the Group Triumvirate leadership team, you will lead the Group with the Group Director and Group Director of Nursing.
We are ambitious and strive to improve the experience of patients and citizens through exciting transformation, which involves developing a range of exciting additional services including:
Care Navigation - combining all Single Points of Access and providing clinical triage and support across the location
Urgent Community Response
Integrated Front Door - to enable a ‘community first’ option for people attending ED
Virtual Wards
Integrated Discharge Hub
The Director of Operations is accountable

Please refer the Job description for details