Job overview

A new Community Diagnostic Centre is being built within the Belfry shopping centre in Redhill with an anticipated open date in mid-2025. It will house a range of diagnostic services, enabling patients to access the investigations they need at the right time, contributing to earlier diagnosis and treatment.  As a key member of the Community Diagnostic Centre leadership team, the post holder will be jointly responsible for the provision of safe, effective and efficient mobilisation, operations and performance of the Trust’s Community Diagnostic Centres, with an initial primary focus on this Redhill CDC.  

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities include: 

• Operational Management: Oversee  and be responsible for the day-to-day CDC mobilisation and operations.  
• Service Delivery: Ensure effective delivery of diagnostic services to patients, meeting agreed objectives, activity targets, quality standards, and  addressing resource constraints.
• Staff Management: Manage team members, including attraction, resourcing, onboarding, and setting shared objectives.
• Quality Assurance: Commit to delivering high-quality diagnostic services and maintaining positive working relationships.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:  

• Significant experience within an NHS environment or complex organization, managing projects, analyzing information, and business planning.
• Highly developed communication skills, ability to analyze complex data, proficiency in MS packages, and service improvement knowledge
• Be Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon residents, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill, a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and outpatient and diagnostic services. In addition, Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’, and we are one of the best-performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all we do.
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and whether patient care is the organisation’s top priority.
• Our workforce is amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey.