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Available for work as a Management Associate or Interim Manager through Attain.Roles have included: Cancer Services General ManagerThis was an interim management position to bring essential leadership to a challenged business unit during the transition between permanent general managers. This included responsibility for Oncology, Heamatology, Palliative Medicine, Lymphoedema, Radiotherapy and Medical Physics. - Progressed the Oncology workforce plan and responded to various medical workforce issues in this extremely fragile service with the highest risk rating in the Trust. - Undertook a deep dive into radiotherapy capacity and developed a recovery plan for activity and performance. - Introduced improved governance arrangements for risk and complaints. - Managed a business continuity incident including evacuation of various departments.

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Overall responsibility for senior operational leadership and management of unplanned care services across the organisation, working in partnership with the Clinical Divisions, support services and external partners to deliver the Trusts objectives.Led on the day to day achievement of statutory standards for unplanned care.Initiated and implemented service improvement plans to improve performance.Developed and implemented the Winter plan.Line managed and developed the Trust-wide site management, discharge planning and transport teams.Developed policies and procedures for key areas of responsibility.Day to day problem solving with clinical and managerial colleagues to maintain patient flow, quality and safety for patients.Represented the Trust at various external forums at a strategic level.Provided assurance reporting and plans to Trust committees, external partners and regulators.Contributed to annual plans, managed human resources, budgets and cost improvement schemes.Managed Director and Senior Manager on-call rotas, participating in the former.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Led and managed 3 Business Units comprising 500 staff and had Trust-wide responsibilities across two acute and multiple community hospital sites working to realise benefits following the merger of two local acute trusts.- Operations Business Unit- Patient Access and Administration Business Unit- Emergency Planning Business UnitTactical commander responsible for leading the Trusts Covid-19 response.Led on the day to day achievement of statutory standards for unplanned care.Initiated and implemented service improvement plans to improve performance.Developed and implemented the Winter plan.Line managed and developed the Trust-wide site management, discharge planning and transport teams.Developed policies and procedures for key areas of responsibility.Day to day problem solving with clinical and managerial colleagues to maintain patient flow, quality and safety for patients.Represented the Trust at various external forums at a strategic level.Provided assurance reporting and plans to Trust committees, external partners and regulators.Contributed to annual plans, managed human resources, budgets and cost improvement schemes.Managed and developed Trust-wide administration services including referral management teams, outpatients administration, referral to treatment time (RTT) validation and health records.Delegated responsibility for emergency planning across the organisation, including major incident response and business continuity plans. Wrote emergency planning policies and procedures, trained staff and participated in NHS and multi-agency exercises. Led the tactical response to any incidents that occurred, which has included fire, flooding, utilities failure, IT failure, cyber attack, chemical incidents and the impact of severe weather.Oversaw the emergency planning annual assurance process to maintain compliance with the NHS national framework.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

I had the same responsibilities as those described in the role of Director of Operations, but his was prior to the merger with Burton Hospitals and therefore my span of control was based purely on the Derby acute site.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Managed and developed one of the biggest orthopaedic departments in the country .Worked with clinical leaders to develop a 5 year clinical strategy,Introduced various service improvements including...- Moving procedures in to day case, clinic and community settings. - Establishing a network of satellite clinics in the community to provide care closer to patients.- Securing investments in medical equipment to introduce new techniques and treatments.- Reducing LOS by developing enhanced recovery and early discharge services.- Achieved theatre productivity at the top of national benchmarks.- Developing virtual outpatient appointment services and patient initiated follow-up appointments.Introduced robust governance processes to secure autonomous leadership free from budgetary and recruitment controls applied to other clinical business units. Delivered year-on-year activity and income growth, treating more patients and making a signicant contribution to the Trust financial position. Produced annual plans, managed a £35M budget and delivered year on year cost improvement.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Managed a Trust-wide programme of service improvement work to improve quality and / or reduce cost across urgent and planned care services. Provided regular reports in to the Programme Management Office. Researched innovative new practices and case studies from elsewhere, also undertaking benchmarking where possible. Organised and facilitated rapid improvement events with clinical, managerial and administrative stakeholders. Analysed complex data sets to identify and measure improvements. Worked in collaboration with various partners within the Trust and across organisational boundaries. Worked with a number of management consultancies to identify and facilitate improvements.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Operationally managed General Surgical services including upper gastrointestinal, coloractal, vascular and hepatobilliary sub-specialties. Rescheduled operating theatres to increase productivity by introducing more full-day operating lists. Introduced barriatric surgery as a regional, tertiary service.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Led the service improvement team, introducing various quality and productivity improvements to clinical services. Produced business cases to secure investment in new services, e.g. Endovascular aortic repair (EVAR), and to procure new capital equipment, e.g., lithotriper. Wrote tenders to compete and secure new services, e.g., diabetic retinopathy screening. Specifically acted as 'account manager' supporting the A&E, Surgery and Paediatric departments.

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Developed and managed a programme of service improvements across the Trust and with partneragencies to improve performance against the recently introduced 4hr standard for patients attending theEmergency Department to be admitted, discharged or transferred within 4hrs of their arrival.

Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

Developed a business case to build a satellite NHS Direct (now NHS 111) call centre integrated with various other out-of-hours services. Secured capital funding and procured IT infrastrucre for GP out-of-hours services across Leicestershire. Initially employed by Lincolnshire Health Authority, then seconded part-time to undertake the same role across Leicestershire too. Was also employed by Lincoln PCT and Charnwood and North West Leicestershire PCT doing the same role as organisational structures changed during this period.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Managed supply chain logistics to ensure just in time delivery of component parts for civil and military aircraft original equipment manufacture and maintenance.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Project managed the research and development of new manufacturing technologies in high pressure turbine surface engineering. Provided quality assurance to the supply chain for turbine surface engineering.Worked in partnership with university research departments and partner organisations.PRINCE2 project management trained.Significant training in LEAN manufacturing. Learned to use Design of Experiments (DoE) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) to help develop and control new and existing manufacturing processes.

Alfreton, England, United Kingdom

Rose through the ranks from technician and supervisor to manage a team of laboratory staff providing product quality control and process control in the aerospace industry, specialising in hot section turbine components. Developed and managed quality management systems in accordance with relevant British and International standards.Subject matter expert in platinum electroplating, advanced knowledge of thermal engineering, chemical and physical vapour deposition technologies.

Alfreton, England, United Kingdom

Researched and developed new products for the metal finishing and hygiene services industries as part of a team of applied chemists.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, Pass

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry, First Class