Operations Lead - Healthcare

Outstanding opportunity for dynamic, results-driven individual to join one of the UK’s leading private healthcare organisations.

Our client, a prestigious private hospital located in Bath, is currently seeking an Operations Lead to offer management, leadership and support within the hospital and assume responsibility for a designated remit of non-clinical services, as well as overall operational support for the hospital.

The post holder will be expected to take on varied and far-reaching responsibilities, to include:

• Ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the hospital.
• Delivery of key quality, performance and financial plans, achieving key service improvements within departments and line managing designated staff.
• Working in conjunction with other senior management to ensure appropriate services are in place and to deliver national and local strategic and operational objectives and standards.
• Ensuring, in conjunction with the lead nurse, that services are efficiently and effectively run within the hospital. This will be achieved through excellent human resource, financial and performance management.
• Leading and driving changes to achieve improvements in processes throughout the hospital to deliver even better patient outcomes and financial balance
• Taking the lead on specific service development issues to increase/reconfigure the range of services offered to meet the needs of the business and the local community. 
• Operational responsibility (through deputies) for the Administration Department, including direct management responsibility for designated staff and direct budgetary control.
• Meeting both the Administration department’s objectives and the strategic corporate objectives of the organisation.
• Management of patient access for both private and NHS patients, placing an emphasis on patient flow to manage capacity and demand whilst meeting patient expectations and the RTT 18-weeks requirement for NHS patients
• Deputising, where appropriate, for the General Manager in their absence.
• Participating in the senior management on-call rota.

Applicants will be highly communicative managers with exceptional leadership skills and a proven track record of working in operational management roles within healthcare settings.

Exceptional motivational and performance management skills, along with demonstrable commercial and financial awareness, are all essential, whilst a good working knowledge of patient flow, theatre utilisation and the 18 week RTT operational standards would also be highly advantageous.

An excellent package awaits the successful candidate, including competitive annual salary (c. £45k p.a. negotiable D.O.E.), pension, private health insurance, profit-share and share-option schemes and free parking.

For further details, please contact James Parkin at JP Recruit on tel. 0844 357 1157.

Alternatively, to apply on-line, please click on the link provided, including a CV and covering letter where possible outlining strengths and experience applicable to an operational management role within the private healthcare sector.