Chief Operating Officer

4 weeks ago


Wigan, United Kingdom Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

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

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

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