Director of Hospital Services inSouth Lanarkshire inSouth Lanarkshire PUBLISHED 27 SEP 2024

Are you a visionary leader passionate about person-centred care? Join NHS Lanarkshire’s mission to achieve transformational improvement in health services.

The Role

NHS Lanarkshire’s quality vision is to achieve transformational improvement in the provision of safe, person-centred and effective care for our patients. To achieve our quality vision, we are committed to transforming the quality of health care in Lanarkshire through investment in and continuous reliable implementation of patient safety processes. This includes the leadership and service management structures which drive and support achievement of the vision.

This job description relates to the post of Director of Hospital Services at University Hospital Monklands and University Hospital Wishaw within the NHS Lanarkshire Acute Division.

You will be a member of the Acute Services Divisional Management Team and will make a full contribution in the strategic and operational management of Acute Services throughout NHS Lanarkshire. You will play a key, dynamic role leading transformational change to deliver improved quality of care, patient safety, patient and carer-centred services within the hospital. You will also lead the triumvirate team at University Hospital Monklands or the quadrumvirate team at University Hospital Wishaw and will also carry specific system wide responsibilities as agreed with the Director of Acute Services.

You will be required to participate in an on-call rota.

NHS Lanarkshire

We have an opportunity to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

Location

There are two opportunities available.

Post 1: University Hospital Monklands

Post 2: University Hospital Wishaw

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

For a confidential discussion with Russell Coulthard, Director of Acute Services, or to arrange to visit NHS Lanarkshire, please contact Nichola Brown by email at

Further Information

For more information on the role, the organisation and the selection process for this post, please see our Recruitment Pack:

Click here to view: NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Pack - Director of Hospital Services

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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another. *Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.

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