Head of Operations

As the Head of Operations your responsibilities will vary. You will:

• Lead and manage multiple Heads of Healthcare within your directorate, across a set cluster.
• Drive high standards of patient care, performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure consistency and best practice across all healthcare services.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership with a high degree of autonomy.
• Ensure services are safe, effective, and compliant.
• Oversee clinical governance, risk management, quality assurance, and patient safety.
• Work with nursing and quality teams to implement governance frameworks and improvement plans.
• Prepare services for CQC and other regulatory inspections.
• Promote a culture of learning from incidents, audits, and best practice.
• Represent Practice Plus Group at contract reviews, commissioner meetings, and directorate forums.
• Help align services with local and national healthcare priorities.
• Hold overall responsibility for regional budgets and financial performance.
• Identify opportunities for service improvements and efficiencies.
• Develop action plans when standards or targets are not being achieved.
• Support innovation and service development.

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 60 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualifications, skills and experience required:

• Significant amounts of senior operational leadership within healthcare experience.
• Leading large, multidisciplinary teams.
• Managing managers (such as Heads of Healthcare).
• Budget planning, budget control, and financial accountability experience.
• Managing contracts, performance targets, and service delivery.
• HR management and workforce performance.
• Influencing and negotiating with senior partners and external organisations.
• Delivering challenging healthcare targets
• Leading change and service improvement programmes.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Healthcare governance
  • Quality improvement
  • Regulatory compliance
  • CQC requirements
  • NHS structures and commissioning arrangements, particularly Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).