Capacity Manager in Nottingham

Spire Nottingham Hospital has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Capacity/Utilisation Manager to join the team on a full-time basis.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. Our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business bringing together the best people who are dedicated to developing excellent clinical environments and delivering the highest quality patient care.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To provide effective utilisation of theatres and outpatient departments to maximise capacity, commercial benefit, and throughput of patients in line with safe standards of care.
• To work alongside clinical areas such as theatres, wards, outpatient nursing, endoscopy, pre-assessment, physio and imaging to ensure that all resources are available to support assigned cases.
• To deliver key quality, utilisation and performance plans in line with the hospital’s strategy, and to support the Operations Director in ensuring Spire Nottingham Hospital is the first-choice private hospital in Nottingham for patients and consultants, retaining excellent patient and consultant engagement and satisfaction.
• To make a positive difference to People’s lives, through outstanding personalised care.

Who we're looking for:

• Candidates should demonstrate strong communication and operational skills to be able to effectively negotiate and facilitate maximisation of capacity management in a healthcare setting.
• Strong communication skills demonstrating an ability to positively influence a wide group of stakeholders and build relationships to deliver a shared goal.
• Previous experience of working within the healthcare industry or a similar customer orientated organisation.
• Demonstrable ability in problem solving and prioritisation skills.
• Swiftly understand the cause of challenges and be able to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to resolve.
• Willingness to take ownership and responsibility to deliver solutions through creative and quick thinking.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• Hunger and passion for increasing patient throughput.
• Willingness to have difficult conversations with senior clinicians and colleagues to improve utilisation.

Benefits:

• We offer employed colleagues 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

Our Values:

• We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion.
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward. Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

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