Heartbeat: Siten Roy appointed as new group director

July 12, 2018

Orthopaedic Consultant, Siten Roy has been appointed as the new group director of surgical services. Heartbeat caught up with Siten to find out more about his new role.

“My role as group director is to deliver our clinical and strategic aims, objectives, obligations and the long-term vision in a timely manner,” said Siten.

“I will be supporting frontline colleagues and management teams to fully utilise their expertise, experiences and enthusiasm to further improve patient safety, quality of care, productivity and resource management.”

Siten has been part of surgical services for 16 years after joining as an orthopaedic consultant in 2002. He completed a masters in healthcare leadership at Birmingham University and has been theatres clinical director since 2015, whilst he is also a board member the West Midland Leadership Academy.

After working with surgery staff and managers for a few years in his role as orthopaedic clinical director and then theatres clinical director, Siten feels privileged to now work with the executive team. He said: “I consider this an excellent opportunity to develop a feeling of camaraderie and teamwork within surgical services and also to work closely with other divisions to support each other in delivering safe and timely patient care.

“I would also like to put extra emphasis on training and research and clinical trials.

“Externally I would like to work with Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group and the primary care sector to increase collaborative working.

“I will also do my best to encourage, facilitate and talent manage leadership qualities of all the team, both internally through the established leadership programme and externally through the national and West Midlands Leadership Academy.”