# Deputy Director of Operations, Medicine

**Company**: West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Watford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £96,626 to £111,084 a year inc HCA
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Deputy Director of Operations - Medicine to join our senior operational leadership team. You will provide visible, compassionate leadership and take responsibility for operational delivery, performance, financial management, and service improvement across the Medicine Division.

The Medicine Division spans specialist medicine, care of older people and frailty, and interventional specialties including cardiology, respiratory medicine, and gastroenterology. You will lead the operational running of the division, establishing clear accountability and effective performance oversight.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead the operational running of the division, establishing clear accountability and effective performance oversight.

- Drive delivery of national and local access standards across planned care, diagnostics, and cancer pathways.

- Work across divisional boundaries to improve capacity, patient flow, and discharge pathways.

- Lead business, capacity, and workforce planning, aligning services and resources with demand.

- Deliver robust financial management, improved productivity, and sustainable efficiency programmes.

- Lead service transformation and continuous improvement, using data, clinical insight, and patient feedback to shape better pathways.

- Develop and support operational leaders, building a collaborative culture with clear expectations and a commitment to learning.

- Maintain effective operational governance, risk management, and escalation, working closely with clinical and nursing colleagues.

- Build strong relationships with community providers, primary care, and wider system partners to deliver joined-up care.

This role offers a salary of £96,626 to £111,084 a year, inc HCA, and is a permanent, full-time position based at Watford General Hospital.

## Skills

### Required
- operational management
- strategic thinking
- performance improvement
- financial management
- service improvement
- leadership
- communication
- collaboration

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