Director of Clinical Services

Nuffield Health; Taunton; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Zusammenfassung

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is seeking a Director of Clinical Services to provide strategic and operational leadership across the hospital. You will lead high-performing clinical teams, shape governance and patient-safety standards, and drive improvements in capacity, productivity and patient experience.

With a track record in clinical leadership and a commitment to evidence-based practice, you will work with consultants and the hospital leadership team to sustain excellent care, regulatory

Qualifikationen

• Proven track record in clinical and operational leadership.
• Experience building high-performing clinical teams and improving patient care quality.
• Strong governance, risk and regulatory compliance knowledge.

Aufgaben

• Understand hospital priorities and build relationships with colleagues, consultants and external partners.
• Provide visible clinical leadership to ensure safe, effective and patient-centered care.
• Lead and develop high-performing clinical teams with accountability and continuous improvement.
• Drive clinical governance, quality and patient safety to meet regulatory standards.
• Improve capacity, productivity and utilization to support sustainable revenue growth.
• Champion improvements across wards, theatres, and departments to enhance patient pathways and experience.
• Collaborate with leadership to develop services and optimize clinical capacity.

Jobbeschreibung

Director of Clinical Services Taunton Hospital

Taunton Hospital | Nursing | Permanent | Full Time | Competitive salary depending on experience | 37.5 hours per week

As a Director of Clinical Services, you’ll have a strong track record of clinical and operational leadership, developing high-performing teams and delivering consistently high standards of safe, effective and patient-centred care. You’ll combine a thorough understanding of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and the healthcare regulatory agenda with the ability to engage and inspire teams, drive continuous improvement and improve quality, patient experience, productivity and overall hospital performance.

As a Director of Clinical Services, you will:

• Quickly understand the clinical, operational and performance priorities of our hospital and build strong relationships with colleagues, consultants and external partners.
• Provide visible, inspirational clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centered care.
• Lead and develop high-performing clinical teams, creating a culture of accountability, engagement, learning and continuous improvement.
• Provide strategic leadership for clinical governance, quality and patient safety, ensuring consistently high standards of care and regulatory compliance.
• Drive efficient and effective service delivery, improving capacity, productivity and utilisation to support sustainable revenue and EBITDA performance.
• Champion continuous improvement across wards, theatres, outpatients, pharmacy, radiology and physiotherapy, strengthening patient pathways, service delivery, productivity and patient experience.
• Work closely with consultants and the wider hospital leadership team to develop services, optimise clinical capacity and support sustainable hospital growth.
• Ensure the hospital has the right clinical workforce, skills and capability to meet current and future service needs.
• Use quality, operational and performance data to identify opportunities, address areas of risk and drive measurable improvement.
• Be visible, approachable and accessible to patients, relatives, consultants and colleagues.

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind.

• free gym membership
• health assessments
• retail discounts
• pension options

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is one of the leading providers of private healthcare in the South West. We've built a reputation for clinical excellence and outstanding patient care over the last 40 years. We are constantly investing in our modern hospital. With three new state of the art Ultra Clean Air operating theatres and an endoscopy suite we are proud of the wide range of surgical services and treatments available. The hospital has 41 private en-suite bedrooms split over 2 wards and 11 consulting rooms within our Outpatients Department.

Our areas of specialty include orthopedics and spinal surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, bariatric treatments and diagnostic imaging. Our most recent CQC inspection was undertaken in 2024 and we were enormously proud to be rated overall as Good, with Outstanding for Well Led.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

It starts with you.

Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.