Head of Operations

2 days ago

Chester, United Kingdom Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Working Hours - 37.5 hours per week

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert about our exciting opportunity within my senior operational leadership team.

I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to work at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Operating Officer and since I started at the Trust in April this year, I have been overwhelmed with the passion all my colleagues have for delivering safe and effective patient care.

If you are an experienced senior operational leader, with expert knowledge of Cancer Waiting Times (CWT) and hands on experience of improving cancer pathways in an Acute NHS Provider setting then I would love to hear from you, below are the details for the role, which I would be happy to discuss further on an informal basis.

Thank you for considering coming to work with us

Cathy Chadwick
Chief Operating Officer

Accountable to the Chief Operating Officer, with delegated responsibility to the Deputy Chief Operating Officer, The Head of Operations - Cancer Services is responsible for the Somerset Cancer Record (SCR), data reporting for all CWT, leading the operational improvement of all tumour sites processes and representing the Chief Operating Officer at external meetings working closely with external partners.

Working alongside the Associate Medical Director and the Lead Cancer Nurse the postholder is responsible for ensuring maximum efficiency, promoting service improvement, optimum clinical cancer pathways and ensuring compliance against regulatory targets and compliance against quality, risk and governance standards.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

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