Chief Operating Officer

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We employ almost 16,000 staff and have income of £1.7bn.

Together with Imperial College London and two other NHS trusts, we form one of six academic health science centres in the UK – focused on translating research into better patient care. We also host one of 20 National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centres in partnership with Imperial College London.

We are proud of our achievements, which include one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS, maintaining our ‘outstanding’ rating for both our maternity units following a re-inspection by the CQC, meeting the majority of our operational targets, improving our NHS staff survey results for the third year in a row and progress on a range of major development programmes.

Our mission is to be a key partner in our local health system and to drive health and healthcare innovation, delivering outstanding care, education and research with local, national and worldwide impact.

Main duties of the job

Our new Chief Operating Officer will play a visible role in leading our positive culture. Our values – to be kind, aspirational, expert and collaborative – are central to the way in which we all operate and we are committed to building a genuinely fair and inclusive organisation for our staff, patients and communities.

If you feel you have the skills, values and experience to take on this challenging and rewarding role, and share our commitment to improving healthcare and a values-led organisational culture, we would welcome an application.

How to Apply:

If you are unable to apply online, please email: [email protected]

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education

• Masters level qualification or professional qualification or similar experience

Experience

• Successful experience of working at board level within an acute NHS or comparable hospital environment.
• Proven record of leading complex, change and modernisation programmes aimed at improving organisational performance across whole healthcare systems.
• Experience of developing and implementing corporate strategies with a track record of successes in delivering against national and local targets.
• A track record of driving up service standards and efficiencies, and value for money

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• The ability to organise services which comply with required quality, access and financial targets.
• The resilience and perseverance to ensure that these targets and other key organisational goals are reliably and consistently delivered.
• The ability to drive transformational service change, and establish a culture of continuous improvement, across the trust's service portfolio, in particular focusing on reducing variation and eliminating waste.
• Willingness to seek out best practice and learn from others, tailoring this as needed to fit the Trust's unique circumstances.
• The ability to build high performing multi-disciplinary teams with the capability and motivation to deliver against the trust's objectives.
• A strong commitment to the ethos and principles of the NHS - someone who will always seek to "do the right thing"

Communication Skills

• A strong communicator, with the influencing and negotiation skills, political astuteness and broader understanding of the NHS required to build positive collaborative relationships both within the Trust and in the broader health system.