Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Programme Director – UEC Improvement and Transformation
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Programme Director for UEC Improvement and Transformation
The Programme Director for UEC Improvement and Transformation will provide the senior delivery leadership required to accelerate one of HHFT’s highest-priority programmes. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, with dotted-line accountability to the Director of Transformation, the postholder will strengthen delivery grip, align cross-cutting workstreams and provide executive assurance that improvement is translating into safer care, better flow, improved staff experience, productivity and sustainable financial recovery.
The successful candidate will be expected to bring senior operational judgement, compassionate leadership and disciplined delivery focus to a complex and high-impact programme where sustained progress will make a direct difference to patients, staff and the wider Trust.
Key Responsibilities
- Working directly to the Chief Operating Officer, align operational performance, clinical pathway redesign, patient flow, workforce productivity, digital and data-enabled improvement, and financial recovery into a single, coherent delivery programme.
- Operate with the authority, pace and judgement of a senior operational director, working across clinical, nursing, operational, corporate and system partners to deliver tangible improvements for patients, staff and the Trust.
- Provide senior leadership to align workstreams focused on improving front-door access, ambulance handover, admission avoidance, non-admitted pathways, acute assessment, frailty, SDEC, discharge and ward flow, while delivering safe productivity and financial recovery benefits.
- Strengthen accountability, resolve barriers and ensure that agreed improvement priorities translate into sustained operational and patient benefits.
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Programme Focus
The programme is focused on:
- Improving front-door access
- Ambulance handover
- Admission avoidance
- Non-admitted pathways
- Acute assessment
- Frailty
- SDEC
- Discharge
- Ward flow
Complex Environment
The programme operates in a complex environment where:
- Day-to-day operational pressures
- Transformation delivery
- Capital and estate constraints
- Digital dependencies
- Workforce capacity
- System-wide discharge challenges
intersect. The postholder will provide senior leadership to align these workstreams, strengthen accountability, resolve barriers and ensure that agreed improvement priorities translate into sustained operational and patient benefits.
Secondment
The secondment provides focused capacity to accelerate delivery during a critical phase of the UEC programme, ensuring visible leadership, clear decision routes, disciplined benefits tracking and credible assurance to Executive and Board-level forums.
About Us
Our Vision
To provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital.
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Our Cultural Ambition
To have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Specialist Services
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
Trust Overview
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Relocation Support
Your Next Career Move Made Easier – Accommodation May Be Offered
We understand relocating can be a big step. Hampshire Hospitals may be able to provide accommodation options for successful candidates, depending on availability. If this is something you would like to explore, please contact Southern Housing on 02080 360017.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Wendy Slocombe
- Job title: Executive Assistant to Chief Operating Officer
- Email address: wendy.slocombe@hhft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01256 852814
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