Interim management can help a client to meet all kinds of challenges, from change management and transformation projects, to meeting specific short-term skills gaps.
The clear advantage that interim management brings over other routes is the ability to quickly bring in experienced individuals to work alongside the existing team, introducing new skills, applying deep experience and leaving a valuable legacy.
It’s all about finding the right person with the right skills. Effective interim management will establish best practice learned at the highest level. It will create permanent and beneficial change and inspire the client’s management team long after the appointment has been fulfilled.
Interim management is a flexible and cost-effective solution for transformational change. We have a register of experienced interim managers with the knowledge, skills and objectivity needed to push through major initiatives in the NHS and Higher Education.
At Active Healthcare Services we have a register of NHS experienced interims covering the following functional areas: Finance, Commercial, Human Resources and Risk Management.
Examples of the type of skills and expertise that they can offer are as follows:
Finance: A robust and prudent Interim Finance Director with proven leadership and general management skills, familiar with working at Board level in both Public and Private organisations. For the last 2 years he has worked as an interim director firstly at an Acute NHS Trust and latterly at a Primary Care Trust. In addition he was a Non-Executive Director at another Acute Trust for 4 years.
Commercial: An experienced Interim Commercial Director with significant and current NHS experience. During the last 4 years he has been the Marketing Communications Director for a Mental Health Trust and been the Business Development Lead for two other Mental Health Trusts. He is an expert in business auditing and benchmarking; opportunity assessment, business case and strategy development; and process re-engineering.
Human Resources: A people and organisational development specialist with 20 years’ experience, mostly in the health service. He has also worked in the civil engineering, telecommunications, housing and charity sectors. His main practice is in management and leadership development with senior medical staff and his work on assessment centres and coaching have won national awards. He has lectured internationally and is the author of several books on healthcare management and learning and development.
Risk Management: A professional manager and communicator with extensive and international experience in the design and delivery of consultancy and networking services to health and social care sector clients. A thought leader and innovator in care safety, quality and risk management practice. In addition she has presented internationally on healthcare safety and risk management and is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Clinical Risk journal.
