Debjani Duncan

Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry

April 2005 – April 2007 (2 years 1 month)

►Headed up a department of clinical personnel that supported the purchasing team of the UK’s largest NHS collaborative procurement hub serving over 60 acute and primary care trusts in the Midlands, Shropshire & London with a non-pay spend in excess of £2 billion.
►My role was to determine the strategic direction of clinical product sourcing by working closely with end users, local development agencies, suppliers, NHS PaSA and horizon scanning services (ECRI) etc.
►Through the team, I managed clinical product/services trials & evaluation & developed extensive regional & local clinical networks to support the above activities.
►Sourcing policy was governed equally by savings potential & consideration of other issues such as patient safety, clinical risk management, innovation of patient pathways, whole life costs e.g., service development & clinical efficiencies through procurement.

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry

August 2003 – March 2005 (1 year 8 months)

►Responsible for managing the process of developing Trust Clinical Strategy & acting on behalf of the Director of Development as main point of contact for non clinical services in relation to strategy development.
►Identified long term strategic trends that might affect clinical services in the future & facilitated the development of implementation plans for strategies, monitoring progress against strategic objectives.
►Ensured clinical & non-clinical strategies reflected changes within the NHS.
►Supported the Director of Development in engaging the whole health economy in development of the Trust’s vision & strategic direction.

January 2002 – August 2003 (1 year 8 months)

►Responsible for resolving divisional complaints, including conducting complainant meetings, drafting Chief Executive correspondence & conducting clinical & non-clinical investigations.
►Responsible for all aspects of risk management within the Trust including reporting, monitoring, investigating, action planning & evaluation of action plans/outcomes.
►Required to plan & implement a divisional framework for the delivery of the Clinical Governance agenda & monitor its effectiveness.
►Provided training & guidance on all of above activities at divisional & ‘shop floor’ level.
►Deputised for the Divisional General Manager when required.

Hospital & Health Care industry

August 1999 – July 2002 (3 years)

►Developed, implemented, monitored & evaluated a system for the provision of clinical supervision/reflective practice throughout the acute trust.
►Provided in-house training for the enhancement of the programme in the form of study days, action learning, seminars etc.
►Focused on improving aspects of clinical practice development where needs were highlighted through supervision.
►Negotiated with Luton University to provide level II and level III courses as required.
►Conducted quantitative & qualitative studies to monitor the effectiveness of the supervision provided.
►Successfully marketed the concept of clinical supervision & reflective practice to increase uptake & gained national & international recognition for the project by presenting at conferences in UK & USA.
►Validated courses at other health education institutions as an independent ‘expert’.
►Provided consultancy role to other trusts/agencies who were trying to achieve same objectives.

Hospital & Health Care industry

June 2001 – January 2002 (8 months)

►Responsible for supporting a cohort of 12 senior nurses through the Royal College of Nursing Leadership programme.
►Delivered the course curriculum & provided additional mentorship through assisted reflective learning/action learning sets.

Hospital & Health Care industry

1998 – 1999 (1 year)