Pre Operative Assessment and Outpatients Manager in Plymouth

Nuffield Health is the UK's largest Healthcare Charity. We're passionate about building a healthier nation and delivering outstanding patient care. At Plymouth Hospital, we're looking for an experienced and inspiring clinical leader to join our senior leadership team as Manager of Pre-assessment and Outpatients.

Main duties of the job:

• Lead and manage the Outpatients, Preoperative Assessment and Minor Procedures services, ensuring safe, effective and efficient delivery of care.
• Provide visible clinical leadership, maintaining accountability for clinical effectiveness, patient outcomes and operational performance.
• Review clinic capacity and utilisation to improve consultant accessibility and maximise service efficiency.
• Collaborate with consultants and key stakeholders to develop and optimise clinic templates and scheduling.
• Drive service improvements that enhance patient flow, reduce waiting times and improve the overall patient experience.
• Oversee the management and maintenance of outpatient equipment, ensuring compliance, safety and operational readiness.
• Use performance data and service insights to inform decision-making, identify opportunities for improvement and support strategic planning.
• Contribute to business planning, capital investment proposals and future service development opportunities.
• Lead, support and develop a skilled multidisciplinary team, creating a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance frameworks, regulatory requirements and Nuffield Health standards.
• Play an active role within the hospital's senior clinical leadership team, contributing to local strategy and organisational objectives.

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: To succeed in this role, you'll be a clinically registered healthcare professional with substantial post-registration experience within Outpatients, Preoperative Assessment or a similar acute healthcare setting.
• Experience: Proven leadership experience, ideally at Team Leader, Department Manager or equivalent level. Strong clinical credibility and a passion for delivering high-quality patient-centred care. Experience leading and developing teams within a fast-paced clinical environment. Excellent communication, organisational and stakeholder management skills. A track record of improving services, enhancing efficiency and driving positive change. Knowledge of clinical governance, regulatory requirements and quality improvement methodologies. The ability to analyse performance data and translate insight into practical service improvements.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.