UK Clinical Operational Excellence Lead – Perioperative
Posted 7 days ago by Beautiful Recruitment
Negotiable
Fixed-Term
Remote
Nationwide
Summary: The UK Clinical Operational Excellence Lead – Perioperative is responsible for enhancing perioperative practices across secondary care sites in the UK. This role involves building relationships with key stakeholders, conducting comprehensive reviews of perioperative processes, and implementing standard operating procedures to achieve operational excellence. The position requires extensive travel to various healthcare facilities and aims to improve patient outcomes through best practices in healthcare delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build relationships with key stakeholders, including Hospital Directors and Heads of Nursing.
- Travel to secondary care settings to review perioperative practices and processes.
- Devise and implement a framework for assessing perioperative practices across all sites.
- Analyze outcomes from reviews and develop a plan for standardization of operational excellence.
- Report findings and recommendations to the Board for company-wide implementation.
- Roll out and implement plans to achieve healthcare excellence and standard operating processes.
- Engage with stakeholders to ensure the adoption of best practices across the hospital group.
Key Skills:
- Minimum of 5-10 years’ UK healthcare experience.
- Experience as a Head of Nursing, Hospital Director, Surgeon, Consultant, or equivalent.
- Demonstrable track record of delivering perioperative best practices.
- Ability to identify areas for improvement and devise strategies for standardization.
- Strong project management and delivery skills.
- Empathetic and approachable senior healthcare professional.
- Expert change management skills in secondary care.
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Willingness to travel and stay overnight for site assessments.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
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Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
UK Clinical Operational Excellence Lead – Perioperative
12-month Fixed Term Contract
Remote/WFH with extensive travel to secondary care sites across the UK
Our client is one of the UK’s largest independent sector healthcare providers and they provide a range of innovative and expert healthcare services to NHS, private and insurance patients. With their own network of private hospitals nationwide and expert clinicians and surgeons within, they deliver more than 50 services from orthopaedics, ophthalmology, gynaecology, oral, spinal, weight loss to undertaking their own diagnostics and medical imaging. They are award winning and recognised for providing the highest level of quality, specialist secondary healthcare and excellent patient outcomes for over 50,000 patients each year.
The role of UK Clinical Operational Excellence Lead – Perioperative
Reporting into the Medical Director for Secondary Care, you will: -
- Build relationships, foster openness, and honesty at the surgical centres with key stakeholders to include the Hospital Directors, Heads of Nursing across the UK
- Travel to each secondary care setting and undertake full reviews of perioperative practices and processes at each site, devise and implementing a specific framework to undertake the assessment that you will personally undertake across all sites to draw upon best practices already in place.
- Having undertaken a full review of each hospital’s perioperative process and procedure analyse the outcomes and devise a plan for standardisation of operational excellence.
- Report to the Board and present your findings and recommendations for best practice and standard processes to be rolled out company wide.
- Roll out and implement the plan to achieve healthcare excellence and standard operating processes, sharing these perioperative best practices and engaging with all key stakeholders to implement these across the hospital group ongoing to achieve standardisation.
The person we are looking for will be: -
- An experienced Head of Nursing, Hospital Director, Surgeon, Consultant or equivalent with a minimum of 5-10 years’ UK healthcare experience who has a demonstrable track record of delivering perioperative best practice and standardisation of operating processes in a secondary care setting.
- Ideally will have identified best practice, areas of improvement and devised a strategy for perioperative best practice and subsequently rolled these out across multiple sites to achieve standardisation and operating excellence.
- You will be an approachable, empathetic senior healthcare professional, motivated to achieve excellence in healthcare through excellent project managment and delivery
- You will be motivated by delivering exceptional patient outcomes through best practice and process optimisation.
- Willingness to travel to each site and undertake the assessments/best practice roll outs post review with overnight stays will be required.
- An expert change manager in secondary care and able to influence stakeholders at all levels in a clinical setting to achieve, willing to challenge the status quo.
- Immediate starts are available for the right person on a fixed term, 12-month contract