Experienced Private Healthcare manager with a strong background in clinical governance, personnel management, and patient relations.
Adept at ensuring the CQC Framework and Fundamental Standards are met or exceeded
Skilled in developing and enforcing policies and procedures to maintain high standards of care.
Committed to enhancing patient experiences and improving healthcare outcomes through effective management and strategic planning.
Hospital Manager Academy Mentor & Deliverer
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Operations Development Lead
SpaMedica
06.2024 - Current
Currently working in combination as Dual Site Registered Hospital Manager
Training and development of Hospital Managers in the East region and preparing new Hospital Managers for CQC interviews
Leading tailored induction programs and sharing best practice approaches with new team members
On call for 60 hospitals in the group and providing out of hours support for around 3-4 weeks a year
Offering support and guidance for any particular hospitals that need help due to under-performance
Involved in project work planning, implementation and management of new systems and processes
Responsible for training and developing new and existing Hospital Managers in the region (15 hospitals)
Undertaking walk arounds and audits an developing action plans to ensure compliance with CQC criteria, regulations and policies
Attending regular meetings both locally and nationally to provide input from an operational perspective
Creating, building and implementing tailored packages to support training, inductions and onboarding
Working with the COO to support Hospital Managers and Area Managers during new site opening
Dual Registered Hospital Manager
SpaMedica
05.2021 - 11.2024
Maintaining CQC KPIs and the correlation with CQC frameworks, policies, regulations and legislation
Monitoring key operational standards, both clinical and corporate, to ensure that the quality of care delivered at the site meets regulatory, statutory and other recognised standards
Delivery of safe clinical governance combining effective risk management and risk assessment
Completing mandatory prospective and retrospective audits to ensure that all standards are met and where variances are detected, ensure that action plans are put in place to deliver swift corrective remedies
Leading on incidents, safeguarding alerts and referrals and complaints through the use of appropriate databases (InPhase) to ensure the team investigate and learn from unexpected events, errors, omissions and suboptimal care episodes by way of SWARMS & LFPSE meetings
Working with the contract team to ensure accurate reporting to commissioners to include feedback on actions and lessons learnt
Ensuring sites are fully compliant with the required safety standards
Overseeing overall patient satisfaction measures including patient related outcome measures, NHS Choices reviews and general reviews
Striving to improve performance of care delivery at site and sharing best practice with the wider business
Leading, developing and mentoring the hospital teams ensuring regular appraisals are completed for all staff and that staff morale is optimum
Patient Consultant Advisor
Harley Medical Group
Maidstone
10.2020 - 05.2021
Cosmetic Surgery & Medical Aesthetics Patient Advisor
Registered Manager ensuring that all activities within the clinic comply to National Standards
National CQC Mentor for the brand
Designated trainer for new Registered Managers and Patient Advisors
Management of all clinic operational areas – staffing, clinical, sales, personnel, administration and financial
Providing leadership, motivation and support to all staff
Developing and implementing plans to deal with identified problem areas via Clinical Governance framework
Maintaining systems to ensure the effective, safe and efficient operation of the Clinic including ensuring contracts are in place and current and weekly manager meetings to report and feedback on Group policies and work practices
Managing the activities of the surgeons within the Clinic and to ensure they are working in accordance with the objectives of the company and building solid relationships with them
Achieving new sales through personal selling skills and one to one consultations
Single handedly increased my clinic’s non-surgical business by 69% and took annual budget to 142%
Unblemished month on month, year on year record
Meeting or exceeding budgetary requirements for the clinic, ensuring profit maximisation is achieved through effective cost control measures
Ensuring all clinic monthly and annual sales targets are met or exceeded by close liaison with the clinic sales team
Pro-actively developing new business outside of the clinic confines
Personally responsible for meeting and exceeding non-surgical and surgical sales targets
Developing relationships with prospective new patients through promotion of products and services and to develop existing sales business through effective patient handling
Education
NVQ Level 3 - Leadership and Management
QUBE
Skills
CQC Framework
Clinical Governance
Personnel management
Patient relations
Quality assurance controls
Policies and procedures
Certification
NVQ Level 3 Leadership & Management
Timeline
Operations Development Lead - SpaMedica
06.2024 - Current
Dual Registered Hospital Manager - SpaMedica
05.2021 - 11.2024
Patient Consultant Advisor - Harley Medical Group
10.2020 - 05.2021
Registered Clinic Manager, Patient Advisor & CQC Mentor - Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group