NHS - Chief Operating Officer
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
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:
- Setting the Trust’s strategic direction.
- Achievement of the Trust’s corporate objectives, including compliance with CQC standards and the delivery of national targets and core standard.
- Delivering high quality and safe care to patients.
- Promoting a high performance culture.
- Promoting and living the values of the Trust and fostering a culture which enables and motivates staff to delivery outstanding care to our patients and customers.
- 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.
Working for our organisation
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’ NHSrun hospital in the East Midlands.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job pack and person specification document.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria- 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 criteria- 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 criteria- 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 health care 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 criteria- Able to travel between sites.
- Member of gold on-call rota.
- Must undertake the fit and proper person requirements of the role.
Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.
If you would like this information in an alternative format or in a different language please contact us on 01623 622515 ext 3271.
Please note that we no longer accept handwritten/paper applications and that the email address given on your application will be used for all correspondence regarding this post.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change.
Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.
In submitting an application, you authorise Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any current and previous NHS Service details and you agree to the Trust obtaining and transferring personal date held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests).This data will be shared using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and third party systems via an automated process and will only be used for the purposes of maintaining your employment record.
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be invoiced to you once you've commenced employment.The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application.
The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.
Please note any genuine job offer letters will only be received if you have applied, interviewed, and received a verbal offer from the appointing manager for a vacancy within Sherwood Forest Hospitals. If you receive a job offer and you are not sure of its authenticity, please report it to the following email [email protected]