Job summary
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Deputy Chief Operating Officer to help shape the future of healthcare in Swindon.
We are looking for an ambitious individual to lead a dedicated team to deliver exceptional care as we transform our services.
In this unique role, you will support the Chief Operating Officer in the delivery of the operational performance agenda. Key responsibilities will also include:
- Delivering strategic and operational objectives.
- Leading Trust-wide projects, including winter planning, pooled waiting lists, and information sharing.
- Addressing the Trust's key performance challenges and driving recovery efforts.
- Enhancing patient pathways and service delivery through stakeholder collaboration.
Accountable to the Chief Operating Officer, you will implement internal transformation, while ensuring value for money.
Your deep understanding of the wider NHS agenda, the environment we operate in, and your extensive senior-level experience in complex health services will be vital for success.
Main duties of the job
As Deputy Chief Operating Officer, you will showcase a proven track record in operational leadership within complex settings, coupled with adept communication and problem-solving skills.
As the prospective appointee, your dedication to fostering an open and inclusive culture, championing workplace equality and equitable service provision is paramount.
You will be a dynamic and motivating influencer, exhibiting unwavering resilience and a profound commitment to patient well-being.
Your strategic acumen will be evident through a robust leadership style, exemplifying clear aspirations for the Chief Operating Officer role.
Evidencing our Trust's STAR values - Service, Teamwork, Ambition, and Respect - will be intrinsic to all aspects of your work, and displaying leadership behaviours (Patient First, Ownership, Make it Great, Top Talent, Inspire, Get involved, Be Smart, Deliver and Collaborate) will be your hallmark.
Our values and leadership principles are the heart of our organisation, and you can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
About us
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system.
Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
It's a particularly exciting time to be joining us in Swindon. Work has started at pace to bring urgent and emergency services together as part of a £31.8 million Integrated Front Door Programme, as part of our Way Forward Programme.
The urgent and emergency care expansion will be the biggest ever investment to the hospital site and follows the opening of the new Urgent Treatment Centre and Radiotherapy Centre last year, which already represent a huge investment in Swindon's healthcare infrastructure.
We offer a rewarding opportunity to join our ambitious Trust with a mandate to make a real impact on the outcomes of the people we serve.
We strive to be an inclusive organisation and encourage anyone who is interested in this role to get in touch.
For further information or to arrange an informal discussion with Felicity Taylor-Drewe, Chief Operating Officer, please phone 01793 604183.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will lead a range of Trust wide and, on occasion, system wide projects including such areas as winter planning, pooled waiting lists and information sharing. They will also work with the COO in the delivery of the operational performance agenda and undertake any specific projects as directed.
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will lead recovery work on any key operational performance areas that are off trajectory. The post holder will be required to deputise for the COO and represent the COOat local, regional and national meetings.
Please see attached full job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will lead a range of Trust wide and, on occasion, system wide projects including such areas as winter planning, pooled waiting lists and information sharing. They will also work with the COO in the delivery of the operational performance agenda and undertake any specific projects as directed.
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will lead recovery work on any key operational performance areas that are off trajectory. The post holder will be required to deputise for the COO and represent the COOat local, regional and national meetings.
Please see attached full job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent professional qualification or commitment to undertake
- Management qualification or post graduate diploma
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Experience within a Community/Social Care Service
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of successful senior management and achievement in a complex organisation
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and delivery of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led services.
- Successful budgetary management and achievement of CIPs
- Demonstrates ability to develop and utilise effective professional networks
- Evidence of successful operational and business planning achievement
- Management and leadership of staff from a range of professional backgrounds
- Extensive experience of operational resilience and capacity planning to support delivery of the improved utilisation and productivity of resources
Desirable
- Knowledge of organisational performance management principles and practice
- Demonstrates ability to develop and utilise effective professional networks
- Project management techniques
- Preparing and implementing strategic plans
- Demonstrates evidence of innovation and improvement in the provision of services
- Experience in managing and delivering projects across a wide range of services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent professional qualification or commitment to undertake
- Management qualification or post graduate diploma
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Experience within a Community/Social Care Service
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of successful senior management and achievement in a complex organisation
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and delivery of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led services.
- Successful budgetary management and achievement of CIPs
- Demonstrates ability to develop and utilise effective professional networks
- Evidence of successful operational and business planning achievement
- Management and leadership of staff from a range of professional backgrounds
- Extensive experience of operational resilience and capacity planning to support delivery of the improved utilisation and productivity of resources
Desirable
- Knowledge of organisational performance management principles and practice
- Demonstrates ability to develop and utilise effective professional networks
- Project management techniques
- Preparing and implementing strategic plans
- Demonstrates evidence of innovation and improvement in the provision of services
- Experience in managing and delivering projects across a wide range of services
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
