MVCC Hospital Director

Enherts Tr; Greater London; Remote; GBP 113,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Hospital Director for the MVCC Cancer Services Division. This senior leadership role focuses on day-to-day operational management, performance delivery, governance, and budget responsibilities to drive high-quality patient care.

You will work with clinical and nursing leaders, lead continuous improvement, and ensure resources are used efficiently while championing inclusion and patient voice across the Trust and system

Job description

Main area Administrative Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 9 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (Secondment) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (3 days MVCC, 2 days Lister) Job ref 361-COR-8372967

Site Mount Vernon Hospital Town Middlesex Salary £112,782 - £129,783 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 05/11/2026

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job overview

The MVCC Hospital Director is a key senior leadership role within the Cancer Services Division, responsible for the effective day-to-day operational management and performance of the division. Working closely with divisional clinical and nursing leaders, you will drive operational delivery, patient flow, transformation, continuous improvement and the achievement of key performance and financial objectives.

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate operational leader with a strong track record of delivery, who can inspire teams, champion innovation and inclusion, and work effectively across organisational and system boundaries.

Main duties of the job

The MVCC Hospital Director will provide senior operational leadership for the division, with responsibility for delivering high-quality, safe and effective patient services. Working as part of the COO’s Senior Operational Team and alongside the Divisional Leadership Team, you will oversee operational performance, governance, patient safety, financial management and service delivery.

You will lead continuous improvement and transformation, drive delivery against national and local standards, and ensure the division makes effective use of its resources. You will champion compassionate and inclusive leadership, promote the patient voice and work collaboratively across the Trust and with wider system partners to improve services and outcomes for patients.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Providing visible, compassionate and inclusive leadership across the division, supporting teams to deliver high-quality patient care and excellent operational performance.
• Leading the day-to-day operational management of the division and ensuring delivery against national and local standards, performance indicators and Trust objectives.
• Working as a senior member of the COO’s operational team, representing the division and contributing to wider Trust priorities and decision-making.
• Leading and supporting continuous improvement, innovation, transformation and service redesign, embedding the principles of the East and North Hertfordshire Production System (ENHPS).
• Ensuring robust clinical and corporate governance arrangements are in place, with effective management of quality, patient safety, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Providing effective financial leadership, including management of divisional budgets, delivery of cost improvement plans, financial recovery plans where required, and identification of efficiency and income opportunities.
• Working with clinical and operational leaders to develop sustainable services, identify future resource requirements and ensure the best use of available resources.
• Chairing the Divisional Board and ensuring effective oversight of divisional performance, risks, priorities and improvement plans.
• Championing equality, diversity and inclusion and creating a culture where colleagues feel valued, supported and able to perform at their best.
• Ensuring the patient voice is embedded in service delivery, improvement and redesign.
• Building strong relationships across the Trust and with external health and care partners, commissioners and other stakeholders to support effective system-wide working.
• Representing the division at Trust, system, regional and national level as required.
• Deputising where required, contributing to Trust-wide projects and participating in the Director on-call rota.

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