- Educated to Master's Degree level or equivalent appropriate professional qualification
- Evidence and demonstrable record of continuing professional and personal development
- Significant experience of managing large scale operational services
- Leading operations in a healthcare environment (ideally including acute experience)
- Board/senior manager level experience
- Demonstrable knowledge of the NHS and wider public sector policy context, infrastructures and cultures
- Demonstrates sound strategic knowledge and awareness of wider NHS & Healthcare challenges and the implications of NHS drivers on acute services
- Proven record of leading complex organisational change and transformation programmes
- Experience of capacity planning and translating Group strategy and vision into operational objectives.
- Demonstrable experience of building and maintaining credible relationships with all staff especially clinicians.
- Ability to lead, engage and influence key partners to work across system and operational boundaries, motivating them to deliver common aims and performance metrics.
- Significant experience of situational leadership, workforce engagement and people development gained within a complex healthcare setting
- A deep motivation and commitment to improve patient safety, service performance and to make a real difference to patient care
- Demonstrating the ability to understand diverse interest groups internally/externally and gain their support
- Communicating the rationale for change and modernisation and engaging and facilitating others to work collaboratively to achieve change
- You must be able to deliver highly complex information and use information to influence in environments where people hold strongly opposing views
- The ability to hold others to account for agreed targets.
- You must be able to deliver highly complex information and use information to influence in environments where people hold strongly opposing views.
- You must be able to respond effectively to complex queries, requiring immediate response, while exposed to day-to-day interruptions.
- Ability to navigate complex organisational issues and relate to wide spectrum of NHS professionals
- Excellent project management skills as project manager or sponsor. Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
Chief Operating Officer - Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom - South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and dynamic strategic leaders who share our passion for the highest quality clinical care. The Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Managing Director will thrive in a complex and fast paced environment and demonstrate exemplary leadership qualities which are consistent with the Trusts values.
Being able to articulate a vision is an essential attribute along with exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
The COO is responsible for developing clinical strategies, alongside Executive colleagues, and then has the prime responsibility for ensuring that those strategies are delivered.
This opportunity requires exceptional communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills and the ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
This is an opportunity for the right candidate, with the right experience and who shares our values and passion for the highest quality clinical care.
We welcome applications from visionary leaders with significant experience of strategic leadership within the NHS acute sector.
Main duties of the job
Our Chief Operating Officer (COO)/Deputy Managing Director forNorth Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust will work collaboratively across organisational and professional services to deliver the shared ambitions and the objectives of The Group to improve care, outcomes and use of resources.
The COO/Deputy Managing Director forms part of a Site Leadership triumvirate, with the Medical Director and Nursing Director, with oversight of the hospital's clinical and operational leadership teams and support functions. The triumvirate will report into the Group Chief Medical Officer, Group Managing Director and Group Chief Nursing Officer. As such, the COO is also Deputy Managing Director for the Group and responsible for the operational and financial delivery of one of its Trusts.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced, dynamic, and high calibre individual who will be responsible for the effective and efficient day to day operation of the hospital, delivering patient care to the highest levels of safety and quality, meeting all national and local performance criteria and targets, whilst operating within agreed financial parameters.
You will contribute to the development and implementation of the Group strategy, in the context of national and local priorities and will contribute to the corporate development of the Board of Directors.
Working for our organisation
Our Group
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the areas largest employers, with a budget of circa £1.2 billion and over 15,000 staff who deliver acute, tertiary and community health and care services across the Tees Valley, North Yorkshire, County Durham and beyond.
We have high ambitions and are committed to delivering more together for the populations we serve. In the spirit of greater collaboration, following a number of years of joint working, the two trusts have taken the decision to move to a Group model, meaning that our two organisations remain separate, so they can represent their communities effectively, but enables the trusts to work at scale to take strategic decisions, which benefit the group as a whole and will deliver better outcomes for our patients, staff and the wider population.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications, Training & Knowledge
Essential criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
Disclosure and Barring Checks (DBS)
It is now the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. We welcome applications from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network; LGBT+ Network; Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions Network, Faith Network, Childless not by Choice Network and the Menopause Support Group.
As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.
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The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.
Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.
Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.