David Thomas Email & Phone Number

England

I joined forces with a specialist team formed to develop and operate a string of luxury Retirement Villages with Care. Currently secured development sites include Chertsey and Chippenham with a significant pipeline to progress.

Buckinghamshire

Experienced Director with expertise gained across the spectrum of health and social care including operations, commissioning and regulation. Inspirational and diplomatic leader during business as usual, merger, acquisition and turnaround. Proven record of facilitation, mentoring and coaching individuals and teams in independent, NHS and charitable sectors. We bring clinical and non-clinical approaches to operations, quality, safety and governance within both single and multi-site organisations. Extensive experience of mergers and acquisitions, service redesign and change, compliance and assurance frameworks and pragmatic clinical and corporate governance structures. Key Achievements: • Management support: advising start up development company in the retirement with care sector. • Regulatory and operational turnaround: Advised and supported NHS and Independent Sector clients, Hospitals (acute, MH and LD), Supported Living and GP practices. ‘Inadequate/Special measures’ to ‘Good’ with 6 months.• Management support: Advice and coaching of individuals and teams through periods of change including mergers, to maximise effectiveness and utilisation of internal and external systems and structures.• Diagnostics/Due Diligence: Rapid identification of issues and concerns. Drafting of action and project plans to rectify.

Buckinghamshire

Providing Specialist Advisor Support to CQC Inspections in both the NHS and Independent Sector.

Surrey

Managing Director of 11 high end registered care homes and eight developing domiciliary care branches. Accountable for operation, quality and profit of a business forecast to achieve £8.2m profit with a gross margin of 40% (FYE18). Integral role in company sale process, leading on presentations.Key Achievements:• Record occupancy, record in-month EBITDA and 25% reduction in agency costs.• Restructuring to enable transition of business into new ownership.• Removing inherited embargos, warning notices and inadequate ratings.• Development of two new domiciliary care branches.• Implementation of new training, appraisal and development arrangements for the group.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Nominated Individual for 7 Hospitals. Set up and managed a team of specialists to support safety, experience, effectiveness and compliance agendas. Key achievements included: • Successfully led the Charity through the first Independent Mental Health CQC inspection under the new regime.• Oversaw a revision of the Charity health record to enable more efficient and effective record keeping linked to the rollout out of mobile devices.• Implemented installation of Datix Risk system as an integrated part of the electronic health record.• Achieved 1st place in the Stonewall Health Equality Index within 3 years. Achieved 3rd place the previous year from a standing start.• British Safety Council 5 Star Award for Health and Safety.www.dathomas.uk

Kettering Uk

Deputy for the Director of Compliance, managing the Quality Support and Assurance agenda. Objectives centre around the successful post merger integration of clinical governance, quality and compliance frameworks whilst maintaining "business as usual" support for clinical services in Quality Improvement, Audit and Effectiveness, Research and Development and Service User and Carer Involvement.

Kettering

Held the Provider Services Board portfolio of governance, including complaints, claims, risk, compliance teams and business continuity. Covered for the Head of Professional Development and Practice role including the Clinical Audit, Infection Prevention and Control and Safeguarding services.

Developed and delivered the strategic clinical quality and governance agenda in preparation for a Foundation Trust application. Actively supported and advised on the operational restructuring into a Medical Director/Chief Operating Officer model. Managed the Infection Prevention and Control, Clinical Risk, Clinical Audit and Effectiveness, the Research and Development and compliance staff.

Responsible for the development of governance and compliance arrangements and day to day management.

Responsibility for delivering the clinical and non-clinical risk and governance agendas, during a Private Finance Initiative funded single site demolition and rebuild whilst delivering safe, quality focussed evidenced based services.

Advanced Management Programme

A modular management development programme providing theory, tools and techniques on management in a multi-national, cross-industry.

Performance Through People: Into Action

5 day in depth residential course on people management and delivering performance through others.

Impact And Influence: Driving Outstanding Results.

Intensive 5 day residential course focusing on influencing as a key leadership skill.

Ashridge Leadership Process

5 day residential course on developing confidence and capability as a leader.

Action Learning Set Facilitation

Public Enquiry Training

Successful Negotiating

Procurement Master Class

Preparation For Board Membership

Foundation, Prince2

Bsc (1St Class), Management Of Occupational Health And Safety

Rgn, Registered General Nurse

Activities and Societies: Student nurse representative with the Queensland Nurses Union