Service Director

Role and service

Leadership and transformation

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the service and lead its transformation towards CQC hospital registration.
• Ensure high standards of clinical quality, patient safety, governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop quality assurance and outcome measurement frameworks and improve clinical pathways, operations, and patient experience.
• Oversee complex neurorehabilitation pathways, including specialist spinal care and tracheostomy services.
• Develop the private inpatient and outpatient proposition, referral pathways, and commercial and professional relationships.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team and promote accountability, innovation, and excellence.
• Work with clinical, operational, commercial, and estates colleagues to develop and deliver the service vision.
• Champion digital and assistive technology to improve patient outcomes.

Future estate

• Help shape the estate strategy and co-design a proposed purpose-built extension.
• Potential facilities include a rehabilitation gym, outpatient and therapy spaces, step-down flats, and learning and clinical teaching areas.
• The environment is intended to support rehabilitation, patient independence, and patient experience.

Working arrangements

• Full-time, 37.5 hours per week.
• On-site, Monday to Friday, with on-call duties.

Requirements

• Experienced healthcare leader who has successfully led within the private acute hospital sector.
• Suitable background may include private hospital CEO, COO, Registered Manager, or Nominated Individual experience.
• Ability to provide strategic and operational leadership through service transformation and development.
• Ability to prepare governance, quality, operational systems, workforce, patient pathways, and the physical environment for CQC hospital registration.
• Ability to build relationships with clinical, operational, commercial, estates, commissioning, insurer, and other stakeholders.