Hospital Director (Private Healthcare)

Castlefield Recruitment are working in partnership with a Leading Private Healthcare provider who are opening a new site in 2025.

We are currently recruiting for the role of Hospital Director starting in early 2025.

Salary: £110,000 + 10% Bonus per year

Start date: Early 2025

Location: South Of England

Employment: Permanent Contract

Summary

We are seeking an ambitious, dynamic Hospital Director to lead a unique, new private patient day-case centre that is being developed within the south of England

This is a rare opportunity to be involved from the early (pre-launch) stages of a completely new unit, which will provide a range of day-case procedures, outpatient imaging and diagnostics.

About

The centre will open in 2025 providing a comprehensive suite of investigations and treatments including orthopaedic, cardiology and gastro-intestinal day-case surgery. This will be supplemented by outpatient diagnostics to include CT scanning, MRI scanning, ultrasound services and pathology. The service will be delivered by a dedicated and highly specialised team.

The organisation has been successful in developing a number of other day centres, which include a Multi-speciality Surgery Centre, an Imaging Suite and an X-ray. In addition they also have a Cardiology centre with a CT and laboratory and an Endoscopy centre. Further centres are also under development or planned around the UK and internationally.

Opportunity

Our client is looking for an outstanding Hospital Director to manage the next major centre.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare manager to work with a group of leading local doctors to design, build, and operate a brand-new centre.

Post-launch, reporting to the Board, you will take responsibility for leading and managing all aspects of the centre:

Operations: Ensuring that all administrative and clinical staff are effectively organised and managed to provide an efficient infrastructure that enables delivery of top-quality care. Management of SLAs with external providers.

Quality assurance & performance improvement: Ensuring the Centre’s activities and records adhere to regulatory requirements; evaluating performance and developing action plans for improvement. Facilitating communication and problem solving to establish effective working relationships between clinicians and centre staff. Develop a culture of continuous improvement that focusses on quality and patient satisfaction.

Financial performance: Take responsibility for planning, monitoring and assessing performance against the budget

People management: Selecting, orientating, supervising and evaluating the performance of all staff. Maintaining standards of performance and assisting in the development and completion of personal development plans for all staff members.

Training & development: Actively seeking opportunities to continually develop own knowledge and that of the unit staff.

Regulatory, governance & safety: Ensure appropriate processes and outcome management are in place to meet the requirements of all accreditation bodies, including but not limited to CQC. Assist in developing, interpreting, supporting and implementing policies and procedures. You will be the CQC Registered Manager of the unit.

In addition, you will participate in:

Driving innovation: Providing support to the staff and the physician group to trial and adopt new innovations to improve outcomes, patient experience or efficiency.

Business development: You will also support commercial activities to drive the success of the business, e.g. arranging marketing events, conducting referrer analysis and outreach.

You will be joining us as we embark on an exciting journey and there will be huge personal and professional development opportunities and elsewhere in the growing network.

Profile

• Experience of managing all aspects of an independent clinical practice (e.g. admin, operations, commercial)
• Recognised management training/qualification is desirable
• Experience of private healthcare market desirable
• Experience of CQC Registered Manager role desirable
• The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate excellence in:
• Leadership & people management skills within a multi-disciplinary team
• Adaptability and agility
• Communications skills - presenting, influencing, persuading and negotiating
• Collaboration - building partnerships and strategic working relationships
• Integrity and resilience
• Problem solving skills
• Planning, organisation and delegation skills

Salary & benefits

• Competitive salary (experience dependent) & employee benefits
• Attractive performance-linked incentives

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £110,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Bonus scheme
• Performance bonus

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person