Job summary
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a progressive, forward thinking healthcare provider as our Chief Operating Officer.
This is a pivotal leadership role within our organisation, responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality, patient-centred services across the Trust. They will lead programmes of transformation and improvement, embedding a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organisation.
As an executive director and a member of the Board of Directors, the Chief Operating Officer will work with colleagues to support the development of an open and engaging culture for our patients, relatives and staff that encourages excellence in clinical practice, facilitates team working and embraces multi-professional care delivery.
This is an exciting time to join our Trust following the recent appointment of our new Chief Executive, we are now seeking to appoint a Chief Operating Officer who guided by 'our four P's' - Patients, People, Performance and Partnerships, will inspire continued success for the organisation and the WWL Family.
We understand the importance of ensuring that our Board of Directors is as diverse as possible. Diversity in leadership for us means greater depth and breadth of experience and perspective, which in turn allows for a greater ability to relate to our colleagues and their representatives, our patients and their families and our partners.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Operating Officer is responsible for ensuring the provision of safe, high quality, patient-centred services on a day-to-day basis that meet performance standards and address health inequalities within identified resources. They will lead programmes of transformation and improvement, ensuring the adoption and promotion of improvement approaches across services. They will lead the development of strong working relationships at both system and locality level, to ensure that we play a major role in system partnerships and collaborative models of care; redesigning those where necessary in collaboration with our partners.
As an executive director and a member of the Board of Directors, the Chief Operating Officer will work with colleagues to support the development of an open and engaging culture for our patients, relatives and staff that encourages excellence in clinical practice, facilitates team working and embraces multi-professional care delivery. The Chief Operating Officer is also the Accountable Emergency Officer for the foundation trust and has overall responsibility for emergency preparedness, resilience and response. This includes ensuring that the foundation trust has robust and appropriate processes and procedures in place to meet its requirements as a Category 1 responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and to ensure business continuity arrangements are in place.
About us
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities set out in the attached job description are aligned to NHS Englands six leadership competency domains. They are set out in the order in which they appear in the framework, and this should not be construed as suggesting that one domain is more important than another. For more information about the framework, please refer to the current version of the NHS Leadership Competency Framework for Board Members.
Recruitment Timetable:
Pre-Shortlisting Interviews: w/c 20th and 27th May 2024
Final interviews and assessments: Wednesday, 19th June 2024
Job description
Job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities set out in the attached job description are aligned to NHS Englands six leadership competency domains. They are set out in the order in which they appear in the framework, and this should not be construed as suggesting that one domain is more important than another. For more information about the framework, please refer to the current version of the NHS Leadership Competency Framework for Board Members.
Recruitment Timetable:
Pre-Shortlisting Interviews: w/c 20th and 27th May 2024
Final interviews and assessments: Wednesday, 19th June 2024
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing continual professional development
Desirable
- Postgraduate management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior operational experience at or near board level in the heath or social care sector
- Evidence of effective performance management and delivering performance and service improvement
- Evidence of delivering service development as part of a significant change agenda in a complex multi-agency environment
- Evidence of working with other stakeholders in a collaborative way
- Experience in developing effective multi-agency collaborations and partnerships to achieve complex objectives
- A successful track record of developing detailed plans/business cases for service development and change projects.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of successfully delivering cost improvement and financial growth programmes
- Sound knowledge of corporate governance and risk management
- Knowledge of national NHS policy and strategy
Skills
Essential
- Ability to assess, analyse, synthesise and act upon complex performance data and financial information
- Well-developed communication and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate teams and gain consensus at all levels within the organisation
- Highly developed political awareness
- Ability to deliver highly complex information and use information to influence in environments where people hold strongly opposing views
- Ability to respond effectively to complex queries which require an immediate response, whilst exposed to day-to-day interruptions
- Ability to assess situations and take calculated risks, based on learning and experience, to achieve longer-term service improvements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing continual professional development
Desirable
- Postgraduate management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior operational experience at or near board level in the heath or social care sector
- Evidence of effective performance management and delivering performance and service improvement
- Evidence of delivering service development as part of a significant change agenda in a complex multi-agency environment
- Evidence of working with other stakeholders in a collaborative way
- Experience in developing effective multi-agency collaborations and partnerships to achieve complex objectives
- A successful track record of developing detailed plans/business cases for service development and change projects.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of successfully delivering cost improvement and financial growth programmes
- Sound knowledge of corporate governance and risk management
- Knowledge of national NHS policy and strategy
Skills
Essential
- Ability to assess, analyse, synthesise and act upon complex performance data and financial information
- Well-developed communication and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate teams and gain consensus at all levels within the organisation
- Highly developed political awareness
- Ability to deliver highly complex information and use information to influence in environments where people hold strongly opposing views
- Ability to respond effectively to complex queries which require an immediate response, whilst exposed to day-to-day interruptions
- Ability to assess situations and take calculated risks, based on learning and experience, to achieve longer-term service improvements
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
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trust Headquarters, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
Wigan Lane
Wigan
WN1 2NN
Employer's website
http://www.wwl.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
