Total 6 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Bedford, Bedfordshire

The Assistant Section Chief is responsible for managing Provider schedules and leave. This person is responsible for Provider onboarding, education and training. He or She will resolve front line clinical care questions and/or concerns. The Assistant Chief will collaborate with the Service Line Manager to develop performance expectations for Physicians and complete annual proficiencies including Pay for Performance, FPPEs and OPPEs. Work closely with the Primary Care (PC) Service Chief to determine appropriate MCA labor mapping, panel size and PCMM FTE. This incumbent is required to work with other clinical services such as Specialty Care, Radiology, Mental Health, Laboratory, Urgent Care as well as GEC/CLC. Develop and supervise clinical education programs for PC Providers and Trainees. Participate in groups created for PC Leadership including VISN and National calls when the Service Chief is absent. He or She is required to travel to CBOCs on a regular basis as well as travel to conferences and meetings. This position will be 40% Administrative Duties and 60% Clinical Duties. This position may be required to cover intermittently, PACT teams and same day services as a gap and float Provider. Other duties as assigned.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting



Work Schedule: Monday - Friday (7:30a - 4:00p)

Starting at $230,000 Per Year (VM 15)

Join a dynamic and growing insurance broker based in Bedfordshire as Operations Manager or Operations Director, depending on your experience. This key role involves taking over operational functions from the current Director, allowing them to take on CEO responsibilities, including managing Heads of Department, compliance, HR, and general operations, as well as reporting to shareholders.

With a clear path to progression, you'll have the opportunity to step into the Managing Director role within a year, supporting the company's growth strategy both organically and through acquisitions. There is also potential to move into the CEO position within 3-5 years.

We're looking for a proven leader with experience in senior operations roles within insurance, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a strategic mindset.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

You'll manage schedules, coordinate seamless meetings, draft key communications and handle expenses. The role will also involve overseeing general admin duties. Acting as the first point of contact, you'll represent the Directors, handle queries, organize travel and events, and support the wider people teams. Join us and keep our dynamic team running smoothly!
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum
Contract Term: 12 months Fixed Term/Secondment
Location:Whitbread Court, Dunstable, LU5 5XE with hybrid working (minimum of 3 days a week in our Dunstable campus)

Why You'll Love It Here

Healthcare: BUPA Healthcare
Up to 10% Matched Pension,
25 Days holiday and Company Share Save Scheme
Discounts: Up to 70% off Premier Inn Hotels and up to 25% off our restaurants.

What you'll do:

Organize and maintain diaries, to review and adapt schedules for productive, prioritized plans.
Coordinate meeting logistics and prepare agendas to ensure meetings are well-planned, with clear objectives and desired outcomes.
Support with researching and preparing confidential and sensitive reports and drafting key business communications.
Manage expenses, ensure proper budget allocation, and assist with budget reporting.
Act as the first point of contact internally and externally, handling queries, representing the People Director team, and managing calls and visitors.
Organize travel, events, team days, and meetings, ensuring logistics, agenda creation, and presentation coordination are handled efficiently.

What you'll need:

Extensive experience supporting multiple directors simultaneously, demonstrating the ability to manage and prioritize the needs of high-level executives.
Proven track record of working within a corporate FTSE250 business, showcasing an understanding of the complexities and demands of a large organisation.
Proficient in diary management, with a keen eye for detail to ensure the Director's schedules are optimized.
Skilled in travel management, capable of organising detailed itineraries and handling all logistics to ensure smooth, timely travel arrangements.
Adept at liaising cross-functionally across the wider business, working seamlessly with various corporate functions to facilitate communication and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities Working within the overall ICS strategic objectives, devise, implement and monitor the strategy which will set out a core set of principles describing how Maternity, neonatal and paediatric services can be best involved and embedded into the transformation work programmes within the ICS. Exploring the approach to developing an integrated, flexible, Maternity, neonatal and paediatric workforce that can deliver high quality and sustainable health and care services at ICS/ ICP & neighbourhood levels. Coproducing the functions of clinical and professional leadership that should be undertaken at system level and describe how these would be delivered. Ensuring visible Midwifery leadership at ICS system, regional and national level. Provide expert advice and strategic system leadership to the ICS Programme Leads, Care Professionals Board and ICPs to support the development of an integrated, flexible, Maternity, neonatal and paediatric workforce that can deliver high quality and sustainable, integrated at scale, across a local system. Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments to assist in the thinking and definition of the strategy discussions. Clinical lead for the Local Maternity and Neonatal system. Informing the ICS & Programme Leads on how the Maternity, neonatal and paediatric workforce will support the delivery of the Long-Term Plan and the transformational workstreams, understanding and unlocking the barriers that will increase opportunities for effective service delivery. Develop and support transformation within the Maternity, neonatal and paediatric models of care and pathways. The role will support a culture across LMNS that is supportive, inclusive and enables all voices across the membership to be valued ,listened to. Provide leadership for safeguarding agenda across LMNS in conjunction with system Named /designated professionals Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to project management. The Director of Midwifery will deputise for the ICS CNO at National, Regional and ICS levels. The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the ICS. Post holder : Date :

To take shared responsibility for non-invasive cardiac investigations to ensure all the investigation are performed to the highest standards possible with full patient safety and to provide expert advice on findings. To liaise with cardiology doctors as and when necessary.

To take responsibility of performing echocardiogram on in and out patients and generate their own reports to BSE standards. Ensuring service is supported by the appropriate guidelines, protocols and clinic capacity. To deputise for the head of department in his absence. To participate in the training and development of junior staff within the department along with the remit to train appropriate others as required by the service. The post holder will be required to participate in other non-invasive areas of cardiac investigations, exercise-tolerance testing, Holter monitoring and analysis and tilt-testing.

Job Title: Chief Cardiac Physiologist

Band: 7 + 10% recruitment and retention premium

Hours 37.5 Hours per Week

We are very passionate about furthering your potential by creating different pathways, whether providing varied experience via Rotation or even a specialist provision dependent upon the position, the choice is yours!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and suitably experienced Cardiac Physiologist specialised in echocardiography to join our friendly team. The Department provides a wide range of diagnostic and invasive cardiac investigations. Also provide pacemaker implantation and follow-up clinics. Applicant should hold BSc in Clinical Physiology degree or equivalent and also have been accredited in BSE/EACVI Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography. The department is currently awarding 10% recruitment and retention (R&R) to all fully BSE accredited staff.

Only fully accredited applicants in adult echocardiography will be considered for this post

This post has been designed to help with the expansion of the Echo department with the introduction of the new stress echo service, along with the plans to start a physiologist led valve clinic with the final aim being BSE Departmental Accredited.

The department is planning towards 7 day working, the successful applicant would expected to participate in this.

For further information or for informal visit please contact Huseyin Ahmet on 01234 792047 (Huseyin.ahmet@bedfordhospital.nhs.uk)

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. Please ensure that you make your application as soon as possible.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required.

Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

1 To undertake and carry out competently a full range of non-invasive investigations:

Trans-Thoracic Echocardiography - To perform study and provide clinical reports to aid diagnosis or any on-going treatment. To make clinical decisions as to when to expedite clinic follow-up as required. Supervision of junior staff members. To also assist the physician in Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography and Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography with regard to obtaining optimal images and measurements during the procedure. To be responsible for relevant equipment and drugs used in procedure.
• Tilt testing - To be aware of dangerous arrhythmia associated with test. To be able to respond correctly to any such arrhythmia. To be able to explain test and to reassure patient. To accurately monitor haemodynamic measurements during test. Supervision of junior staff members.
• Exercise Tolerance Testing (technician led) - to be aware of contraindications for exercise testing. To be able to recognise dangerous arrhythmia associated with test. Be able to provide first line resuscitation and defibrillation while awaiting crash team. Know when to stop test either due to patient symptoms or using information derived from on-screen ECG recordings.
• 24 hour tape analysis - Analyse and provide a clinical report to aid diagnosis, to be aware of significant arrhythmia and make clinical decisions on referrals. To know when to expedite reports to cardiologist, supervision and advice for junior staff members.
• Blood pressure monitoring - to provide clinical information with regard to patients ambulatory blood pressure to aid diagnosis or on-going treatment.
• To maintain stock levels within department.
• Work in collaboration with the nominated lead Cardiologist.






This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Mar 2024

1 To undertake and carry out competently a full range of non-invasive investigations: Trans-Thoracic Echocardiography - To perform study and provide clinical reports to aid diagnosis or any on-going treatment. To make clinical decisions as to when to expedite clinic follow-up as required. Supervision of junior staff members. To also assist the physician in Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography and Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography with regard to obtaining optimal images and measurements during the procedure. To be responsible for relevant equipment and drugs used in procedure. Tilt testing - To be aware of dangerous arrhythmia associated with test. To be able to respond correctly to any such arrhythmia. To be able to explain test and to reassure patient. To accurately monitor haemodynamic measurements during test. Supervision of junior staff members. Exercise Tolerance Testing (technician led) - to be aware of contraindications for exercise testing. To be able to recognise dangerous arrhythmia associated with test. Be able to provide first line resuscitation and defibrillation while awaiting crash team. Know when to stop test either due to patient symptoms or using information derived from on-screen ECG recordings. 24 hour tape analysis - Analyse and provide a clinical report to aid diagnosis, to be aware of significant arrhythmia and make clinical decisions on referrals. To know when to expedite reports to cardiologist, supervision and advice for junior staff members. Blood pressure monitoring - to provide clinical information with regard to patients ambulatory blood pressure to aid diagnosis or on-going treatment. To maintain stock levels within department. Work in collaboration with the nominated lead Cardiologist.