Director of Clinical Services

Director of Clinical Services | Band 8a/8b equivalent | Wrexham | Competitive Package and Salary - dependent on experience | Group wide advancement opportunities

Spire Yale Hospital is recruiting for a Director of Clinical Services to provide overall clinical leadership and operational management to all areas of the clinical and non-clinical service areas. This also includes Spire Chesney Court Diagnostic Centre. This a varied role where you will be working across all clinical areas of the hospital and working collaboratively with numerous internal and group-level stakeholders.

Spire Yale Hospital is located in Wrexham. Wrexham is only 12 miles from Chester and 30-50 minutes from Liverpool and Manchester. There are direct train links to London with a journey time of just over 2 hours. The Snowdonia National Park and the North Wales Coast are on our doorstep! We take pride in delivering high-quality care to patients across North Wales and the Borders

Duties and responsibilities:

• Set and maintain clinical practice standards within a Governance and Regulatory framework.
• Develop and share evidence based clinical practice.
• Provide, receive and manage complex, sensitive or contentious information.
• Develop own knowledge and practice and facilitate continual professional development amongst others.
• Develop a working environment and culture that actively improves health, safety and security.
• Develop strategies and policies for service improvement within an evolving corporate agenda.
• Improve quality to agreed standards and operating model.
• Promote and influence a culture that actively celebrates diversity.
• Provide transformational leadership through personal and expert power across a variety of clinical teams.
• Effective management of clinical teams through the application of effective management practices.
• Work in partnership with the Hospital Director and consultants to achieve Annual Operating Plan delivering the hospital clinical strategy.
• Manage Human Resource activities for all members of the clinical teams.
• Act as the Director of Infection Prevention and Control for the hospital:
• Act as Caldicott Guardian in respect of confidentiality and data protection safeguard and govern uses of patient information within the hospital.

Who we're looking for:

• Ideally, you will be a Registered Nurse with valid pin number however, other healthcare professionals will be considered.
• 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

Benefits

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance

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.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Alishia Okereafor at or, call 07850735207

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

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