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Job Purpose To provide on-shift leadership and management of our Hospice Nurses and HealthCare Assistants to deliver patient-centred care and support. To be part of the inpatient services management team to delivery serviceimprovements to clinical services. To support others and to be able to independently plan and deliver patient-centredcare, working closely with patients and their families. Key Responsibilities Clinical Intervention Places quality at the centre of care by providing evidence-based, individualised, andpersonalised support through holistic needs assessment, risk assessments, careplanning, and evaluation of all care interventions.

Follows agreed care and supportplans and actively integrates theory and practice into daily work. Demonstrates excellent communication skills and expertise in hospice care, includingthe ability to manage emotional distress for patients and their loved ones whenneeded. Contributes to service development, promoting excellence in care. Promotes clinical excellence through innovation, audit, evaluation, and research.

Maintains accurate patient records. Leadership and people management Forms part of the IPU Management team, delivering on service-led requirements, andleading the Hospice Nurses, Hospice Nurse Specialists and Hospice Health CareAssistants as required. Takes the line management of Hospice Nurses and Hospice Health Care Assistants asis needed by the organisation. To act as part of the management team on shift, providing decision-making andtroubleshooting.

To act as a manager on shift whenever required. Effectively allocating work and maintaining responsibility for delegated tasks. Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high-quality, person centred care and using a co-creating care approach with patients and their familiesaffected by life-limiting illnesses. Contributes to the education and training of other healthcare professionals involvedin patient care.

Supports the development and promotion of the hospice, ensuring the delivery ofhigh-quality, cost-effective care. Encourages patient and community involvement within the practice setting. Collects accurate and comprehensive data to provide evidence of activity,outcomes, and quality. Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between allservice providers across the care pathway.

Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as a patient advocate andrepresenting nursing views. Ensures that patients and their families are aware of the full range of resources andservices available through the hospice. Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation to handle difficult or challengingsituations. Supports the development of patient-focused education, including training tomanage treatment side effects effectively.

Innovation: Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques. Works across professional boundaries, employing creative reasoning, positivity andproblem-solving. Supports and manages change from a solution-focused place. Governance Participates in all governance meetings, such as the adverse events group, asneeded by the organisation.

Will undertake investigations, audits, policy and procedure reviews as required by theorganisation. Professional Development Acquires and applies clinical, technical, and evaluation skills through a broad and in-depthknowledge base. Utilises clinical expertise, clinical judgement, creative thinking, and experience toenhance patient care, seeking support from others when necessary. Takes personal responsibility for ongoing learning and development through reflectivepractice, self-appraisal, and actively engages with the learning and developmentopportunities provided by the hospice.

Special Features of the job To deliver on time-specific projects for service improvements across clinical services. To nurture and develop Hospice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants to deliver their roleseffectively. To provide competencies and training as needed to Hospice Nurses and HealthcareAssistants to support in their maintenance of training requirements and continualprofessional development. Working autonomously within a team, you'll deliver patient-centred and holistic care.

Our service operates 24/7, 365 days a year, with clinical roles rostered to ensureround-the-clock coverage. Although rosters are planned, there may be times whenyou'll need to adjust your scheduled rota at short notice. If this is the case, we canmake individual arrangements, provided they align with our Flexible Working Policyand are approved by the Director responsible for the service. In necessary circumstances, we may need to make last-minute changes to shifts tomaintain high-quality, safe patient care.

We'd initially ask for your cooperation, onlyresorting to compulsory changes if necessary. Personal Development We warmly encourage all staff and volunteers at the Hospice to play an active role inidentifying and fulfilling their development needs related to their jobs. We aim tosupport you through various processes, such as regular one-on-one meetings with yourLine Managers or senior colleagues, plus annual appraisal and development reviews. Every employee benefits from an annual appraisal, and to make the most of thisopportunity, it's important to engage fully in the review and collaborate with your LineManager on your individual, team, and organisational objectives.

Additionally, we kindly ask each employee to participate in all relevant mandatoryand statutory training, as required by our organisation and /or their professionalbodies. General Lead and work from a place of positivity and solution-focused Act as a charity ambassador and encourage others to do the same. Collaborate closely with colleagues in Fundraising and Marketing to promote thehospice's charitable activities and participate in fundraising as needed. Ensure the team understands the hospice's structure, values, and purpose, and hasopportunities to contribute to its development.

Maintain confidentiality regarding staff, volunteer, and client records, as well asprivileged information about the charity's services, patients, staff, and volunteers. Enhance the hospice's reputation within the community and among private, statutory,and voluntary sector agencies. Perform any other duties as reasonably required. All staff must be supportive of and able to promote the philosophy and concept ofhospice care.

The hospice provides staff support, and employees are expected to take responsibilityfor accessing and providing suitable support to ensure they can deliver professionalcare. The above is indicative of the current responsibilities of the post which may change from timeto time in consultation with the post holder in line with the service need. Throughout your time with us we will conduct ongoing employment checks and performancereviews relevant to your role, for example professional registration checks, DBS, appraisals andregular contact meetings.

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By working closely with our clients to deeply understand their needs, we are able to develop solutions that are truly best-in-class. We choose to be specialists rather than generalists, so that we have the expertise required to solve even the most complex challenges. Our entrepreneurial approach promotes innovation, integrity and a constant focus on delivering the best solutions for our clients.

The job holder is responsible for providing operational support on a portfolio of clients in relation to their healthcare schemes including Private Medical Insurance, Dental, Travel, Cash Plan Health Screening and Employee Assistance Programmes. The job holder will work within the Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing Small Business & Medium Enterprise Unit, providing support to our clients and Healthcare Consultants team.

As this role will take instructions from various team members on a daily basis, being well organised is an essential skill.

Scheme Administration:

• Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Private Medical Insurance market, in relation to age rated provider policies and overall propositions.
• Support the depa r t m ent a l Ser v i c e L e v el A g r e e m ents as d i rec t ed by y o u r M a n a g er.
• Promptly and efficiently, deal with client queries or issues keeping all relevant parties appraised where necessary.
• Accurately analyse scheme data to ensure that membership is correct, for the purpose of obtaining quotations and preparing Market Reviews and Client Reports.
• D eal with t elep h o n e, e m ail and w rit t en e nqu ir i es f r o m all cl i ents, p r ov i d ers, i n tr o du cers and i n t e r n al c o lleag u es in a p o l i te and e ff i cient m a nn er.
• M ai n tain acc u r a te and se cu r e re c o r d s usi n g the C omp a n y ’s intern a l I T s y st e m s
• P r o c ess n ew b u si n e s s a n d r e n e w als in s upp o rt o f t h e Consultants .
• Provide administrative support including but not limited to, the processing of new joiners, leavers and cancellation of policies in a range of media to clients and consultants in a professional, accurate and timely manner.
• Maintain an accurate diary system.
• Build strong relationships with our WNS Colleagues, providing support where required for training and peer review.
• Adhere to the company’s Data Protection Policy at all times.

Policy, Process and Procedures:

• You follow process and best practice that is relevant to your role and compliant with business policy.
• Constructively you suggest process improvements to deliver workable solutions.
• In a collaborative way you challenge wider processes to enable and drive improvements to service whilst ensuring compliance.

Customer Focus and Relationships:

• The exceptional customer experience that you provide will drive improved retention and enables the opportunity for cross and upselling of our business portfolio of solutions.
• You will work closely with the “Head Of Client Services within their area of responsibility to ensure that the administration of our clients’ Health and Wellbeing schemes are carried out in accordance with relevant policies. You build strong internal, client and provider relationships based on respect that develops and builds loyalty, retention and increased client benefit spend.

Market Knowledge & Technology

• You stay up to date and proactively seek to broaden your market knowledge.
• You understand the need for accurate client data in the operating systems.
• You embrace Technology in order to deliver outstanding client solutions.

Compliance and Personal Development

The Board of each Operating Entity requires the highest standards of corporate governance, operational excellence and financial reporting throughout the Group from all its Directors and employees. Specifically:

• You actively undertake personal development to ensure up to date knowledge and understanding of best practice.
• You are aware of the need and sources of compliance and understand and apply compliance.
• You ensure that HR and Training & Competency records are up to date and meet the Operating Entity and/or Group’s requirements.
• You operates in an honest, professional and ethical manner.
• You are able to adapt best practice to the situation in hand within the framework of compliance.
• Strict adherence to the Group Employee Code of Conduct which strongly aligns to the FCA’s code of conduct that all regulated entities must adhere to under the SM&CR.
• Completes all relevant regulatory training and ensure you remain competent to carry out role

Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours and Experience

• Detailed knowledge and understanding of Private Medical Insurance is preferred, with an interest in other wellbeing products.
• You have Microsoft Office knowledge and are able to use Excel to formulate spreadsheets as required.
• You can create a basic Word document with text and manipulate template reports.

• You strive to be “the best you can be” to deliver high standards of work for the benefit of your clients.
• Your professionalism increases the positive aspect of customer-experience and underpins their loyalty.
• You take ownership of and proactively manage the associated workload.
• You are conscientious, orderly and disciplined with good organisational and time management skills.
• You are motivated with a strong desire to learn about the Preferred Provider arrangements and wider SME product portfolio. You have good attention to detail.
• You are a team Player.
• You lead by example and act as a role model for Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing.
• You interpret change, what it means to the business, and the action you need to take to support the change.

• Experience in a client facing administration role.
• Experience of working with an Employee Benefits Consultancy or with an Insurance Provider is preferred but not essential.
• CII IF7 qualified, preferred or a willingness to study and gain the qualification.

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us:

• Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new

• We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges

• We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours* or hybrid working*.

If you're excited by this role but have some doubts about whether it’s the right fit for you, send us your application – if your profile fits the role’s criteria, we will be in touch to assist in helping to get you set up with any reasonable adjustments you may require.

*Not all positions can accommodate changes to working hours or locations. Reach out to your Recruitment Partner if you want to know more.

Howden began in 1994, as just three people and a dog. Now there are 17,000 of us, and we're a leading global insurance group, managing $38bn of premiums for our clients.

Our largest shareholder group is us – the people who work in the business – supported by three long-term, minority growth-equity partners who share our vision to build a business to last, one that will never be sold.

The owner's mindset is something that's embedded in our culture; our people readily take ownership of their decisions, their actions, and their outputs. They’re invested in every sense. And we all know that by working together to drive the business forward, everyone will benefit from the extraordinary results we can achieve.

Sales Director

Scientific & Laboratory Equipment
Excellent Salary, Car Options, and Bonus Potential

My client is a worldwide leader in laboratory and scientific technology, trusted by customers across pharmaceutical, medical and life sciences sectors to provide the best and most reliable equipment solutions in their sector. Their healthcare division is an integral part of this global services and technology group, employing thousands of people worldwide. Offering "best in class" solutions across a wide range of equipment, their success is based upon a commitment to world leading manufacturing facilities, outstanding product innovation, excellent customer care and the recruitment and development of good people.

As Sales Director with a strong hunting mind set, you’ll spearhead our commercial strategy, leading a global sales team while contributing to our mission of advancing scientific research through cutting‑edge technology. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive business growth while supporting critical scientific research through our industry‑leading laboratory solutions portfolio.

• Design and execute strategic commercial initiatives for laboratory solutions
• Drive new business development and customer acquisition in academic, pharmaceutical, and industrial markets
• Oversee key account management with leading research institutions and laboratories
• Foster cross‑functional collaboration with Marketing, R&D, and Technical Support teams
• Guide product development strategy for next‑generation systems
• Lead performance tracking and KPI management across global territories
• Develop and mentor a global sales organisation focused on scientific markets

• Proven track record in scientific/laboratory instrumentation sales leadership (extensive experience)
• Demonstrated success in growing territory revenues in laboratory instrumentation
• Experience with global accounts and channel partner management in laboratory markets
• Strong understanding of laboratory operations, quality requirements, and laboratory applications
• International business acumen with experience in scientific communities
• Expert‑level sales forecasting and budget management skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biology, or related scientific discipline
• Advanced degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field
• Experience with water purification, analytical chemistry, or laboratory infrastructure

Sales Director

Scientific & Laboratory Equipment
Excellent Salary, Car Options, and Bonus Potential

My client is a worldwide leader in laboratory and scientific technology, trusted by customers across pharmaceutical, medical and life sciences sectors to provide the best and most reliable equipment solutions in their sector. Their healthcare division is an integral part of this global services and technology group, employing thousands of people worldwide. Offering "best in class" solutions across a wide range of equipment, their success is based upon a commitment to world leading manufacturing facilities, outstanding product innovation, excellent customer care and the recruitment and development of good people.

As Sales Director with a strong hunting mind set, you’ll spearhead our commercial strategy, leading a global sales team while contributing to our mission of advancing scientific research through cutting‑edge technology. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive business growth while supporting critical scientific research through our industry‑leading laboratory solutions portfolio.

• Design and execute strategic commercial initiatives for laboratory solutions
• Drive new business development and customer acquisition in academic, pharmaceutical, and industrial markets
• Oversee key account management with leading research institutions and laboratories
• Foster cross‑functional collaboration with Marketing, R&D, and Technical Support teams
• Guide product development strategy for next‑generation systems
• Lead performance tracking and KPI management across global territories
• Develop and mentor a global sales organisation focused on scientific markets

• Proven track record in scientific/laboratory instrumentation sales leadership (extensive experience)
• Demonstrated success in growing territory revenues in laboratory instrumentation
• Experience with global accounts and channel partner management in laboratory markets
• Strong understanding of laboratory operations, quality requirements, and laboratory applications
• International business acumen with experience in scientific communities
• Expert‑level sales forecasting and budget management skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biology, or related scientific discipline
• Advanced degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field
• Experience with water purification, analytical chemistry, or laboratory infrastructure

Who are we?

Howden is a collective – a group of talented and passionate people all around the world. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 18,000 employees spanning over 100 countries.

People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work / life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

By working closely with our clients to deeply understand their needs, we are able to develop solutions that are truly best-in-class. We choose to be specialists rather than generalists, so that we have the expertise required to solve even the most complex challenges. Our entrepreneurial approach promotes innovation, integrity and a constant focus on delivering the best solutions for our clients.

The job holder is responsible for providing operational support on a portfolio of clients in relation to their healthcare schemes including Private Medical Insurance, Dental, Travel, Cash Plan Health Screening and Employee Assistance Programmes. The job holder will work within the Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing Small Business & Medium Enterprise Unit, providing support to our clients and Healthcare Consultants team.

As this role will take instructions from various team members on a daily basis, being well organised is an essential skill.

Scheme Administration:

• Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Private Medical Insurance market, in relation to age rated provider policies and overall propositions.
• Support the departmental Service Level Agreements as directed by y o ur Manager.
• Promptly and efficiently, deal with client queries or issues keeping all relevant parties appraised where necessary.
• Accurately analyse scheme data to ensure that membership is correct, for the purpose of obtaining quotations and preparing Market Reviews and Client Reports.
• Deal with teleph o ne, e mail and written e nquiries fr om all clients, p r oviders, intro ducers and internal c olleagues in a polite and efficient manner.
• Maintain accurate and secure rec ords using the C ompan y’s internal IT s yste ms
• P r o cess new business and re newals in supp ort of t he Consultants.
• Provide administrative support including but not limited to, the processing of new joiners, leavers and cancellation of policies in a range of media to clients and consultants in a professional, accurate and timely manner.
• Maintain an accurate diary system.
• Build strong relationships with our WNS Colleagues, providing support where required for training and peer review.
• Adhere to the company’s Data Protection Policy at all times.

Policy, Process and Procedures:

• You follow process and best practice that is relevant to your role and compliant with business policy.
• Constructively you suggest process improvements to deliver workable solutions.
• In a collaborative way you challenge wider processes to enable and drive improvements to service whilst ensuring compliance.

Customer Focus and Relationships:

• The exceptional customer experience that you provide will drive improved retention and enables the opportunity for cross and upselling of our business portfolio of solutions.
• You will work closely with the “Head Of Client Services within their area of responsibility to ensure that the administration of our clients’ Health and Wellbeing schemes are carried out in accordance with relevant policies. You build strong internal, client and provider relationships based on respect that develops and builds loyalty, retention and increased client benefit spend.

Market Knowledge & Technology

• You stay up to date and proactively seek to broaden your market knowledge.
• You understand the need for accurate client data in the operating systems.
• You embrace Technology in order to deliver outstanding client solutions.

Compliance and Personal Development

The Board of each Operating Entity requires the highest standards of corporate governance, operational excellence and financial reporting throughout the Group from all its Directors and employees. Specifically:

• You actively undertake personal development to ensure up to date knowledge and understanding of best practice.
• You are aware of the need and sources of compliance and understand and apply compliance.
• You ensure that HR and Training & Competency records are up to date and meet the Operating Entity and/or Group’s requirements.
• You operates in an honest, professional and ethical manner.
• You are able to adapt best practice to the situation in hand within the framework of compliance.
• Strict adherence to the Group Employee Code of Conduct which strongly aligns to the FCA’s code of conduct that all regulated entities must adhere to under the SM&CR.
• Completes all relevant regulatory training and ensure you remain competent to carry out role

Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours and Experience

• Detailed knowledge and understanding of Private Medical Insurance is preferred, with an interest in other wellbeing products.
• You have Microsoft Office knowledge and are able to use Excel to formulate spreadsheets as required.
• You can create a basic Word document with text and manipulate template reports.

• You strive to be “the best you can be” to deliver high standards of work for the benefit of your clients.
• Your professionalism increases the positive aspect of customer-experience and underpins their loyalty.
• You take ownership of and proactively manage the associated workload.
• You are conscientious, orderly and disciplined with good organisational and time management skills.
• You are motivated with a strong desire to learn about the Preferred Provider arrangements and wider SME product portfolio. You have good attention to detail.
• You are a team Player.
• You lead by example and act as a role model for Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing.
• You interpret change, what it means to the business, and the action you need to take to support the change.

• Experience in a client facing administration role.
• Experience of working with an Employee Benefits Consultancy or with an Insurance Provider is preferred but not essential.
• CII IF7 qualified, preferred or a willingness to study and gain the qualification.

• CII IF7 qualified, preferred or a willingness to study and gain the qualification.

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us:

• Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new

• We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges

• We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours* or hybrid working*.

If you're excited by this role but have some doubts about whether it’s the right fit for you, send us your application – if your profile fits the role’s criteria, we will be in touch to assist in helping to get you set up with any reasonable adjustments you may require.

*Not all positions can accommodate changes to working hours or locations. Reach out to your Recruitment Partner if you want to know more.

Design Management Talent Community - Healthcare

Design Managers – Shape the Future of UK Healthcare Infrastructure

Do you have experience in Healthcare or Hospital design projects ? Are you passionate about exemplary contractor-side Design Management ? Are you confident working with HTMs and leading end-to-end delivery? Are you ready for a career-defining opportunity?

We're Hiring Now

Laing O'Rourke is recruiting Design Managers and Senior Design Managers from an Architectural & Electrical background to deliver some of the most ambitious and technically complex healthcare projects in the UK — including:

• Monklands Replacement Project (Scotland) – the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the UK
• Brighton 3Ts – a key regional redevelopment
• Other major healthcare schemes at bid stage

The Opportunity:

You'll take a lead role in managing design for a major project, ensuring coordination across client, design, commercial and operations teams. From early-stage design through to delivery, you'll drive compliance, innovation, and collaboration across every stage of the process.

What You'll Do

• Lead pre-construction briefing and design delivery
• Oversee design management procedures across the full lifecycle
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to challenge and optimise the design
• Ensure all design outputs meet programme, compliance, and buildability standards
• Support the Design Leader in embedding innovation and best practice

What We're Looking For

• Experience managing design from concept through to handover
• Degree-qualified in Architecture or Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• Strong knowledge of HTMs and healthcare-specific compliance
• Experience working on complex or regulated environments (e.g. hospitals, labs)
• We also welcome transferable skills and a growth mindset

About Laing O'Rourke

We are a global engineering and construction leader, delivering state-of-the-art buildings and infrastructure across the UK, Middle East, and Australia. With 150+ years of experience, we're known for our commitment to certainty, quality and innovation.

Inclusive Hiring Matters

We're a proud Disability Confident employer. If you meet the essential criteria and request to be considered under our ‘Offer an Interview' scheme , we'll guarantee you an interview. Please let us know what adjustments you may need.

Need support with your application or want to discuss the role further? Reach out to

Job Overview

As the Director of Operations, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing the daily operations of the organisation. You will play a key role in ensuring operational efficiency and effectiveness. Our clients are a recruitment agency specialising in sourcing locum, fixed term and permanent medical and healthcare jobs across the UK, British Overseas Territories and internationally.

Duties

1. Supervising and managing operational staff to ensure smooth running of activities
2. Developing and implementing operational policies and procedures
3. Monitoring and evaluating operational performance to identify areas for improvement
4. Collaborating with other departments to streamline processes and enhance overall efficiency
5. Providing leadership and guidance to the operations team

Qualifications

1. Proven experience in a senior operational role - healthcare recruitment
2. Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and manage a team effectively
3. Excellent organisational and problem-solving abilities
4. Strategic thinking and decision-making capabilities

You will be working with a business that supplies experienced and qualified candidates for the recruitment needs in the UK NHS and healthcare organisations worldwide. They work broadly, supplying medical and healthcare jobs for GPs, hospital doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who have a desire for adventure or need to settle down in one place.