Director of Clinical Services

Director of Clinical Services | Clinical | Full Time | Permanent | Methley Park – LS26

Spire Methley Park Hospital is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Director of Clinical Services to provide overall leadership and management to all clinical service areas within the Hospital. This varied role requires you to work across all clinical areas of the hospital working collaboratively with internal and group-level stakeholders. 

Spire Methley Park Hospital situated in Methley in South Leeds, has recently completed a 7.6 million refurbishment, which included a new theatre equipped with cutting-edge technology enabling us to carry out complex surgery across a variety of clinical specialties. At Spire Methley Park Hospital caring for our patients is at the heart of what we do. We provide expert medical care in our modern, well-equipped hospital for all of our patients.

Duties and responsibilities

The responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:

• Set and maintain clinical practise and standards within Governance and regulatory framework whilst developing and sharing evidence based clinical practise. 
• Provide overall clinical leadership and operational management to all areas of the clinical service areas as agreed with the post holder.
• Promote a cost effective, patient focused quality service for the continuing success of Spire Healthcare. 
• Provide clear focus on business results; maintaining the balance between quality healthcare delivery and sound financial performance.
• Lead and implement the hospital’s clinical strategy and provide support and input to the hospital’s overall business strategy, consistent with corporate direction.
• Deputise for the Hospital Managing Director in their absence.
• Act as the Director of Infection Prevention and Control for the Hospital. 

Who we're looking for

• Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner with current NMC/HCPC registration, no restrictions or conditions to practice.
• Endoscopy Experience Required
• Previous experience within a Theatre Environment 
• High standard of clinical practice
• Competent across a range of clinical skills supported by professional competence and knowledge
• Able to use evidence based practice to provide high standards of care.
• Knowledge of appropriate standards and external bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission
• Experience of working in teams and with minimum supervision.
• Previous leadership experience would be an advantage; however we offer award winning training and CPD.
• Ability to manage complex cases.
• Previous experience of managing clinical audits - desirable 

Benefits

• You will be a Registered Nurse with valid pin number 
• You will have a strong clinical quality background and have knowledge of the CQC process. 
• You will have risk management, governance and patient safety and quality experience. 
• You will have infection control experience.
• Excellent communication skills. 
• Competence across a range of clinical, management and leadership skills
• Professional and clinical knowledge acquired through state registration and further education and development
• Evidence of substantial post registration
• Continual professional development in management and clinically related and relevant subjects

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together
• Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.   We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart. 

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Lauren Armitage on lauren.armitage@spirehealthcare.com

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications