Do you want to make a difference?

Are you ambitious, community driven, and believe in the power of partnership?

Do you believe in trust, honesty, respect, candour, and kindness?

Exciting opportunities have arisen within the Operations Directorate at NHS Dorset.

We are looking to attract talented and passionate individuals who act in the best interest of local people and communities. Individuals who are comfortable in working in a changing environment as the NHS moves from ill-health services to thriving communities which must more focus on prevention to improve population health.

NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board is undergoing an exciting period of transformation, ensuring our staff are empowered to continue to ensure delivery of the very best health and care services to local people and communities and to meet the challenges of increasing demand and complexity, through innovative and integrated solutions.

The Directorate is responsible for operational planning and performance, service delivery including planned and urgent and emergency care, system emergency preparedness, resilience, and response, Provider Collaboratives, urgent and emergency care development, vaccinations, and contract management performance.

Following the establishment of the NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board the Operations Directorate has undergone a restructure to ensure the Directorate can deliver the system ambitions in the new health and care landscape. Several roles are now available.

This is an ideal time to be joining the team, and if you are interested in any of our roles, we’d love to hear from you.

The Operations Directorate is led by Dr Dean Spencer, Chief Operating Officer.

A little bit about Dean…

Dean joined the NHS in 1992 as a management trainee in Nottingham after completing a PhD in Mathematical Sciences at Loughborough University. Dean’s early career was in Nottingham where he first became a director of one of the primary care Trusts. After that he moved to a Board position in a Foundation Trust in Yorkshire before moving to regional and national roles with the Trust Development Authority and NHS Improvement. Dean joined NHS Dorset from NHS England and NHS improvement. During COVID-19, he was the South West Incident Director and Director of the Vaccine Programme.

The Senior Leadership Structure within the Directorate comprises of:

We are joining up to tackle all the things that affect our health and wellbeing, make real change, and improve things for our communities.

Dorset ICS is made up of: