Job Overview
The Deputy Director (Band 8D) for Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) is a senior leadership role within North London NHS Foundation Trust, accountable to the Chief Operating Officer and deputising for the Care Group Director. The role provides strategic and operational leadership across SDEC and urgent care pathways, ensuring safe, timely and effective care that reduces avoidable admissions and improves patient flow.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a complex portfolio across organisational and system boundaries, working closely with acute trusts, ambulance services, primary care, community services and Integrated Care System partners.
- Ensure patients are assessed and treated in the most appropriate setting, with a strong emphasis on same‑day pathways and alternatives to Emergency Department attendance.
- Carry accountability for performance, finance, workforce, and governance.
- Drive transformation, redesign care pathways and embed innovative models to improve access, responsiveness and outcomes.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, inclusion and co‑production, ensuring services reflect the needs of diverse populations.
- Participate in the senior on‑call rota, providing executive‑level leadership across urgent and emergency care services.
- Lead and deputise for the Care Group Director in the delivery of SDEC services, ensuring safe, effective and high‑quality care.
- Ensure delivery of operational, quality and performance targets, using data to monitor performance, identify risks and implement improvement actions; maintain financial control within budget and identify efficiency opportunities.
- Provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective workforce planning, recruitment, supervision and development.
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with acute trusts, ambulance services, primary care, community services and Integrated Care System partners to deliver integrated care pathways.
- Ensure compliance with all governance and regulatory requirements, including CQC standards; oversee risk management, incident reporting and complaints handling, ensuring learning informs service improvement.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders, managing complex and sensitive issues, influencing across organisational boundaries and ensuring clear escalation processes.
- Contribute to Trust‑wide objectives, including planning, quality improvement and service transformation.
Benefits
- Flexible working and support with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
- Excellent internal staff network.
- Opportunities for professional development and leadership training.
Location and Working Conditions
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations in your normal place of work. This may include locations that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
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