Band 9 Deputy Chief Operating Officer

3 months ago


Bath, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Deputy Chief Operating Officer Opportunity at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Are you a seasoned healthcare leader with a passion for mental health and learning disability care? Do you thrive on driving transformative change and achieving clinical excellence? If so, we invite you to consider applying for the role of Deputy Chief Operating Officer (Deputy COO) at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP).

Challenges Ahead:

Despite our successes, challenges remain. We're actively seeking innovative approaches to address issues such as the volume of ADHD assessments.

Why AWP?

Positive Momentum: AWP is currently experiencing a positive moment in its history. We've successfully reduced out-of-area placements and significantly minimised reliance on agency nursing and support worker staff.

High Performance: Our commitment to excellence has earned us recognition as a high-performing organisation.

Transformational Progress: Our large-scale transformation programme has made significant strides in service access, specialist pathways, and integration with system partners.

Main duties of the job

Your Role:

As Deputy COO, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring integrated mental health and learning disability services across two Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) -- Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) , and Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) and the South West Provider Collaborative. You will work with the clinical directors who oversee our three operational divisions.

You will bring:

Passion: Your commitment to mental health and learning disability care drives your work.

Proven Leadership: You have a track record of transforming care, focusing on clinical outcomes, and achieving high performance and efficiency.

Experience: You're an experienced healthcare leader who thrives in complex environments.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you're ready to make a difference and contribute to our mission, we encourage you to contact Mathew Page for an initial discussion .

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the Chief Operating Officer in leading a culture which is compassionate and person centred working to the trusts and NHS values

Provide professional line management supervision for the Divisional Directors of Operations, working closely with the Divisional Clinical Directors (CD) who have line management responsibility

Take responsibility for demand, capacity and flow management across the organisation by implementing, monitoring, reporting and improving evidence based methodologies.

Ensure that all services offer safe, high quality care with least restrictive and closest to home solutions

Support delivery of trust-wide transformation programmes which are aimed at quality improvement as well as efficiency benefits co-produced with people who use services, their families and carers

Ensure the local and national requirements for Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response (EPRR) are met

As a senior manager within the Trusts management team, actively contribute to the leadership of the organisation, providing the vision, strategy and business performance to enable AWP to realise its vision of being the provider of choice to our natural healthcare market

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

A high level of technical expertise and knowledge of Mental Health and Learning Disability systems Significant senior level experience of managing in a Health or Social Care organisation Experience of working effectively with, and gaining the confidence of a range of stakeholders, Commissioners, Local authorities, trade unions, other NHS organisations, Police and Criminal Justice Services

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