Job Description
Dep Chief Operating Officer for Adults, Comm, Inpatients & Access Flow
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Main area Corporate - Deputy COO Grade Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 306-BEH-748
Site St Pancras Hospital Town London Salary £116,852 - £121,852 Per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 12/03/2023 17:00
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Job overview
Deputy Director of Chief Operating Officer for Adult, OP, Community & Inpatients and Access & Flow (Hospital Divisions)
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will have responsibility for the operational management of the divisions/boroughs, ensuring effective implementation of both national and local strategies and the achievement of service objectives within the available resources. The services range from in patient, community to specialist NCL wide perinatal services, Austim, Learning Disabilities, Older People and Veterans Services.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars
The Deputy Director of Chief Operating Officer will lead and work jointly with the Medical Director and the Deputy Chief Nurse to develop clinical services and make progress towards realising the Trust’s long-term strategy. You will be accountable for implementing national and local strategies and will develop corporate plans and possess the energy and the credibility to drive the divisions/boroughs to achieve their corporate objectives.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer will have responsibility for the operational management of the divisions/boroughs, ensuring effective implementation of both national and local strategies and the achievement of service objectives within the available resources.
The post holder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars.
You should have experience of service change, transformation and redesign and have the ability to work effectively in partnership with other organisations at place and across the systems.
Working for our organisation
Barnet Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust and Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust initiated a Mental Health Provider Review to progress joint working and collaboration to deliver their four key aims for the population of North Central London:
- Reduce health inequalities;
- Eliminate unwarranted variation and inconsistencies across the services;
- Improve outcomes for service users; and
- Create a sustainable workforce
A Joint interim Chair was appointed in November 2022 and a Joint CEO was appointed to lead both Trusts with effect from 1 October 2021.
Both organisations remain sovereign Trusts in their own right, with a commitment to work in partnership on key matters that will deliver the aims of this review through the partnership.
A Joint Partnership Executive Team has been in place since 1 June 2022. The Deputy Chief Operating Officer is a key and unique new role, reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive/Chief Operating Officer, with accountabilities across and on behalf of both organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Skills
- • Highly developed operational performance improvement skills
- • Ability to anticipate and plan for change
Experience
- Proven experience at senior management level with responsibility for operations in complex health/social care setting (service director or equivalent)
- Experience and evidence of delivering high standards of performance to achieve national and local targets within a complex healthcare setting
- Experience of working effectively in partnership with other organisations
- Experience of operational planning with a track record of delivery
- Substantial and relevant senior management experience in a key healthcare operational role.
- Experience and evidence of formal project management
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name Natalie Fox Job title Deputy Chief Executive/Chief Operating Officer Email address natalie.fox8@nhs.net Telephone number 07947633691