# Operations Service Director (Blood Sciences)

**Company**: Synnovis Analytics
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As the Operations Service Director for Blood Sciences, you will have the autonomy to deliver day-to-day operations within Blood Sciences against key metrics, such as productivity, efficiency, quality, and workforce.

You will be the process owner, overseeing any necessary reviews, whilst also ensuring the service can run when tested in dynamic environments, or times, which might require you to draw down and implement business continuity plans and ensure service is in ready state.

Your main duties will include:

- Managing the operational budget, including deciding allocation of funds, whilst ensuring adherence to operational governance and adherence to financial reporting requirements and processes.

- Taking ownership and accountability for pathology services P&L, focusing upon optimising operational costs and major non-pay cost lines, controlling expenditure ensuring Synnovis services are operating in a financially viable way.

- Providing clear leadership of the operational leadership teams, providing guidance and support to leaders that helps them create a positive and engaging workplace for teams.

- Ensuring people have access to training and development to build strong career trajectories across all disciplines in your business area, and performance is managed appropriately building resilience to unexpected challenges.

- Ensuring the divisional organisation is right-sized to meet business needs and right capacity to ensure effective and efficient delivery of current and future services, providing expertise to operational leaders to overcome service challenges.

- Managing stakeholders, internally and externally, to maintain a professional corporate image to build a strong understanding of strategic objectives.

- Driving forward the provision of continuous improvement of pathology services, by staying connected to the wider pathology and NHS network, that will see you make recommendations for improving the people, processes, tools, and technologies, to enhance and evolve the service provided.

You will also be expected to:

- Work with Strategic Clinical Leads (SCL), Clinical Leads, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Clinical Scientist and Biomedical Scientist to create an emphasis on patient care and set responsibilities for robust clinical governance and promote an environment of customer-focused service delivery, continuous improvement, and innovation in accordance with Synnovis values.

- Liaise with external agencies and attend relevant meetings locally and nationally, as required.

- Manage the operational budget for your area, closely considering and monitoring how your budget is directed.

- Manage the operational performance of services so that high-quality, safe and robust pathology services are delivered to internal and external customers whilst being fully compliant with all relevant legislation and accreditation.

Salary: Negotiable, £121,528 to £138,529 per annum depending on experience

## Skills

### Required
- pathology
- leadership
- budget management
- strategic planning

### Nice to have
- experience of transitioning services
- working with colleagues across corporate departments

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