Executive Chief Operating Officer

Our client is a large integrated acute and community provider and a major teaching hospital which is a trusted anchor institution at the heart of the community. Playing an influential and critical role in two integrated care systems, they are an organisation of considerable scale, complexity and potential, and they recognise the important role they can play in supporting the public, patients, their own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together. They have over 14,000 staff working across five hospitals and many other sites and are rated Good by the CQC, however they recognise the challenges we face and are committed to implementing the significant improvements required in our maternity services, highlighted by the recent inspection.

Pivotal to delivering these improvements and fostering a culture of exceptional care will be the appointment of an accomplished and visionary Chief Operating Officer to join the Board. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, this key role presents a unique opportunity to shape the future of healthcare delivery through the implementation of sustainable, financially viable services, aligning with the Exceptional Care Together strategy.

As an instrumental member of their Trust Board, you will spearhead transformative service initiatives, ensuring long-term clinical and financial sustainability. Your leadership will extend externally, representing them in influential forums within the local Integrated Care Systems, fostering vital relationships with regulatory bodies and healthcare providers, leveraging best practices for the benefit of patients and staff.

You will be an effective role model, exhibiting and promoting collaborative leadership behaviours that uphold their values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence, providing strategic vision, challenge and support to all colleagues in the Trust.

In this appointment process, we are actively seeking candidates from a range of diverse and inclusive backgrounds who offer the executive skills required to take their Trust forward, and your values and ability to inspire and harness the talents of others is critical for them.

They are seeking a proven leader with a track record of driving organisational change within a complex healthcare environment. If you share the same values and ambition, and are ready to lead an acute Trust into the future, we invite you to apply.