Chief Operating Officer

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Chief Operating Officer.

The Chief Operating Officer role is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be a vital part in the next chapter in the journey of Sherwood Forest Hospitals. This role requires a unique set of skills, to ensure that we adapt to the changing needs of our population and our organisation. We have a Clinical Services Strategy which will be the vehicle used to deliver many of these improvements in conjunction with our Chief Nurse and Chief Medical Officer.

This is a unique opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will have the support of a committed executive team, a culture that values inclusivity and progressiveness, and the opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare for our patients and communities.

Join us in making a difference–apply now and contribute to our mission of delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.

Main duties of the job

The Chief Operating Officer will lead the Trust’s operational delivery, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred, cost-effective services that are innovative and responsive to the needs of our patients. The Chief Operating Officer will work closely with the Chief Nurse and Chief Medical Officer to improve the quality, safety and experience of patients in the Trust’s care.

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) is also a full member of the Trust Board of Directors and will provide advice to the Chief Executive and Board of Directors on all operational issues and lead operational collaboration within the organisation and across the wider Healthcare Community, recognising the current changing and challenging healthcare climate.

All Directors of the Trust share corporate responsibility for:

1. Setting the Trust’s strategic direction.
2. Achievement of the Trust’s corporate objectives, including compliance with CQC standards and the delivery of national targets and core standards.
3. Delivering high quality and safe care to patients.
4. Promoting a high performance culture.
5. Promoting and living the values of the Trust and fostering a culture which enables and motivates staff to deliver outstanding care to our patients and customers.
6. Ensuring the best use of our resources to ensure the financial health and sustainability of the Trust.

We are an organisation that aspires to continually learn and improve to ensure that we provide outstanding care for all.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for anywhere in the Midlands for six years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job pack and person specification document.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive experience in an operational leadership role within an NHS Trust or complex acute healthcare environment working at board level or high performance at the level below board level.
• Experience of successfully leading and managing a diverse and complex team.
• Proven performance manager of services and delivery of targets within agreed timescales.
• Experience of leading planning cycles from concept to delivery.
• Experience of working collaboratively and in partnership with other organisations, with demonstrable experience of delivery across organisational boundaries.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and effectively managing change in large complex environments and of delivering culture shift.
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the NHS and the improvement agenda, particularly in relation to service delivery.
• Strong business acumen, ability to assess opportunities for innovation, revenue generation, partnership and enhanced care.
• Significant and demonstrable evidence of rigorous financial management/control experience and ability to contribute to Trust’s cost reduction strategy.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level and/or relevant management qualification.
• Significant additional role-related and personal development training commensurate with a very senior leadership and management role.
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.

Experience

Essential

• Well-developed, demonstrable and credible leadership and motivational skills including the ability to set out a clear direction, inspire others and assume command.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Patient-focused thinking.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to grasp critical issues and distil them into clear and manageable priorities.
• Judgement and analytical skills.
• Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate at all levels.
• Ability to demonstrate honesty and professional integrity.
• Political awareness and ability to adapt to changing healthcare climate and instructions.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Capacity to build and develop high performing teams and maintain constructive working relationships at all levels.
• Passion for improving local community health and wellbeing and understanding of the role of a healthcare organisation as an anchor institution.
• Self-motivated, with the resilience and perseverance to ensure that targets and key organisational goals are reliably and consistently delivered. Takes responsibility for own actions with insight into areas for development.
• A strong commitment to the ethos and principles of the NHS – someone will always seek to do the right thing.
• High degree of political sensitivity.
• Significant intellectual capacity to develop and drive strategy and innovation.
• Ability to think creatively to identify innovative solutions to organisational development.

Contractual requirements

Essential

• Able to travel between sites.
• Member of gold on-call rota.
• Must undertake the fit and proper person requirements of the role.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King’s Mill Hospital
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL

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214-CEN-6916896

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