Head of Healthcare

NHS; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a dedicated professional for a leadership role to oversee healthcare services. This position involves managing and developing health services with a focus on delivering quality care, ensuring compliance with governance frameworks, and fostering positive relationships with stakeholders. Candidates should have extensive experience in healthcare leadership and a strong commitment to improving service quality and staff engagement.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in healthcare leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance and quality assurance.
• Ability to foster positive working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the healthcare team.
• Manage departmental risks and contribute to risk management frameworks.
• Maintain and manage the healthcare risk register.
• Participate in relevant clinical governance forums.
• Ensure compliance with infection prevention and control standards.
• Monitor compliance with information governance requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Clinical compliance

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join and develop a service which aims to provide high-quality and person-centred care. This will include managing the delivery and development of health services through leadership to achieve high quality, cost effective, equitable and accessible healthcare. You will also create and foster good working relationships with stakeholders across the site to ensure the healthcare department is an integral part of the wider system. You will also be the CQC Registered Manager so will need to ensure that all of our governance frameworks and requirements are delivered to a high standard.

Step into one of the most dynamic and rewarding environments healthcare has to offer! Working in secure settings challenges you to think on your feet, adapt quickly, and grow both personally and professionally. If you’re ready for a role that sharpens your existing skills, teaches you something new every single day, and keeps you at the heart of an environment that’s always evolving this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!

About us

DrPA has been operating in secure environments since 2014 providing General Practitioner services and we are now growing to provide a complete healthcare service at Manston & Western Jet Foil. This will be delivered directly or through a range of specialist partners who are experts in their field. We deliver our services based on our ethos of CARE:

Compassionate care that is trauma informed and supportive

Assurance that care is evidence-based & demonstrates high quality outcomes for our patients

Respectful of peoples cultural and religious beliefs

Empowerment We centre each resident by co-creating holistic care plans that treat their needs and equip them to self-manage their wellbeing.

Job responsibilities

Provide leadership to the healthcare team

Identify, manage, mitigate, and review departmental risks (clinical, operational, financial, reputational, compliance, knowledge and people) and contribute to, support and develop the management of risk management frameworks and processes.

Develop positive working relationships across the site, the Operator, and with key external stakeholders

Maintain and manage the healthcare risk register in consultation with the Head of Clinical Operations

Actively participate in relevant forums such as partnership board, clinical governance board, LDQB, partners meetings, healthcare QCRM, healthcare compliance and policy, medicines management meetings and other forums at SMT representative level

Exercise oversight of the recruitment of clinical staff

Ensure the clinical team can undertake clinical supervision, with key staff trained to act in the role of clinical supervisors

Ensure that all newly recruited clinical staff receive comprehensive induction across clinical and security aspects of practice

Monitor delivery of training for professional staff to meet needs identified in health development plan and gaps identified within skills needs analyses

Ensure sound performance and attendance management in place

Ensure that systems are in place, and complied with, relating to all clinical incidents, promoting a lessons learned culture. To include, but not exclusive of medicines and other clinical risks/errors, SI reporting procedures, radar reporting procedures, and patient complaints

Ensure sound standards of infection prevention and control and environmental hygiene are in place

Ensure that processes are in place to promote the patient safety and quality

Monitor functional compliance with information governance requirements

Manage and deliver positive progress within NHSE performance metrics and against the CQC action plans and clinical audit action plans

Recognise good performance and foster a culture of staff engagement

Work with clinical colleagues to embed a cycle of clinical audit across a range of domains

Accountabilities

Improving levels of staff engagement, staff recruitment and retention

Robust performance and attendance management

Active patient engagement processes in place, with service user feedback valued and considered within service development

PDRs completed to timescales and of good quality

Positive working relationships within the site and across organisational boundaries with key stakeholders

An embedded culture of continuing service improvement

Sound systems and processes in place to capture data and trends relating to complaints,