Head of Theatres & Anaesthetics in UNITED KINGDOM

Head of Theatres & Anaesthetics

Cromwell Hospital

London, SW5 0TU (5 mins walk from Earls Court underground or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground.)

Permanent

Salary: Very Competitive

Full Time 37.5 hrs per week

Shift pattern – Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm plus occasional evening/ weekend shifts if required

Join us and receive a one-off Golden Hello of £3000, or £5000 towards Domestic Relocation Costs (if applicable).

We make health happen

At the Cromwell Hospital, we are committed to delivering a first-class service to our clients through the perioperative journey, ensuring our service is safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. Through the provision of this framework, we attract patients and consultants from all over the world, making Cromwell Hospital their healthcare provider of choice in central London for multiple clinical specialities.

Our main adult theatre is a busy and dynamic environment, setting the benchmark for clinical excellence. We have 5 operating suites catering for Cardiac, Orthopaedics, ENT and Ophthalmic, Da Vinci Surgery, Thoracic and Liver, Plastics, General/Vascular, Urology and Gynaecology. We work with surgeons who are the best in their specialities carrying out simple to the more complex surgeries.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

Your role as Head of Theatres & Anaesthetics at Bupa Cromwell hospital will be to provide high-level operational, strategic business planning and leadership to support the development and growth of the Theatres & Anaesthetics Department. Leading the review of relevant strategies and service plans to underpin the strategic objectives of the services, and the Hospital.

• You will build relationships with key stakeholders to support the delivery of Bupa Cromwell Hospital’s strategy and acting as the key link between services users and the hospital from both a quality and commercial performance perspective.
• To provide leadership, and continuing improvement to the people, within the defined clinical areas, ensuring the highest standards of patient care and service are delivered in an efficient and effective way.
• Own and maintain key performance measures for the services, which monitor key outcomes, and demonstrate delivery of ambitious targets to continually improve performance
• Provide strong, and visible leadership in partnership with the Clinical/Service Leads.
• Review/develop the service strategies underpinned by a business plan which will be led to deliver growth and profit generation. Working closely with service users, evaluating service and maximising investment to delivery strong and sustainable growth
• Engage and influence service users (consultants), providing overarching relationship management between the Hospital and key service users
• To deliver on an inclusive people and staff culture and create an environment that people love working in.
• Own the performance of the Division, where improvement requires cross functional activity, lead and co-ordinate this to resolution.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Senior leadership experience or Masters in Health Management or MBA desirable
• Degree level education in appropriate discipline, or equivalent
• A successful track record in Theatre Leadership
• A successful track record of strategic planning and decision making in a competitive environment
• Able to demonstrate capability and capacity for clinical service management at a senior level in a healthcare environment, including strategic business planning, service delivery, staff and financial management
• strong commercial awareness and good general management experience, understanding the impact of operational efficiencies (and inefficiencies) on the overall revenue performance
• Experience in managing change programmes within complex environments.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• One off Golden Hello payment (T’s and C’s apply)

• Payment of Professional Registration fees

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work

• Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass

• Various other benefits and online discounts

• Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work

• Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you would like more information on the role or require an alternative format, please contact serina.kapoor@bupa.com