Pathology Hub Manager

Pathology Hub Manager

Exeter Hospital Pathology Permanent Full Time

Up to 55000 per annum dependent on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital is seeking an experienced and dynamic Pathology Hub Manager to lead a multisite hubandspoke pathology service across three hospitals in the South West region.

This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for the operational clinical and strategic management of a UKASaccredited diagnostic service. You will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of highquality efficient and resilient pathology services that support excellent patient care.

Working closely with consultant pathologists senior clinical leaders and operational stakeholders you will lead service performance develop people and processes and drive continuous improvement across the network.

As Pathology Hub Manager you will:

• Provide strong visible leadership to a multidisciplinary pathology team across multiple sites fostering a culture of excellence accountability and collaboration.
• Manage all aspects of people leadership including recruitment development deployment performance management absence management and formal HR processes.
• Hold responsibility for service planning and workforce management to ensure safe effective and sustainable service delivery.
• Work collaboratively with consultant pathologists to ensure robust clinical governance and the consistent provision of highquality clinical and technical advice.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with all regulatory and accreditation requirements including UKAS ISO 15189 and MHRA BSQR 2005.
• Manage and review service level agreements with external suppliers and partners.
• Develop and manage departmental budgets in agreement with your line manager maintaining accountability for financial performance and accurate management reporting.
• Lead service improvement standardisation and quality initiatives across the hubandspoke network to enhance efficiency resilience and patient experience.

About You

To be successful in this role you will bring a combination of strong technical expertise proven leadership capability and a passion for service excellence.

Essential requirements:

• HCPC registration as a Biomedical Scientist (or equivalent relevant professional registration).
• Significant postregistration experience within pathology including demonstrable leadership experience at senior or hub/team leader level.
• Proven experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams.
• Indepth knowledge of pathology quality systems clinical governance and regulatory frameworks including UKAS ISO 15189.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to engage effectively with clinical operational and corporate stakeholders.
• Strong organisational financial and problemsolving skills with experience of managing budgets and service performance.

Desirable requirements:

• Postgraduate or Masters qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Experience of managing services across multiple sites or within a networked pathology model.
• Experience leading service transformation or quality improvement initiatives.

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Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital

The Exeter Nuffield hospital is based next to the RDUH hospital in Wonford Exeter. The hospital has 2 theatres as well as a hybrid cardiac catheter laboratory/theatre and an Endoscopy suite. There are two ward areas: an inpatient area with 21 beds and a day-case ward with 10 beds. We also have a busy outpatient department pharmacy physiotherapy and radiology department including an MRI scanner. We specialise in elective orthopaedic and spinal surgery cardiology including invasive procedures general surgery plastics and cosmetic surgery ENT and gynaecology. The Hospital has a MAKO robot that undertakes some of the joint replacement surgery which we have become well known for in this field of surgery.

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