Associate / Chief Operating Officer Support Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Chief Operating Officer. As a Trust, we are committed to delivering outstanding care to our patients and public. To achieve this, we need our leaders to inspire, to motivate and to work collaboratively with colleagues, partner organisations and our public to ensure we are trusted to deliver safe, effective, compassionate care always., Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this full time, permanent post is available on our Senior Manager trust Terms & Conditions.

This is a wide-ranging role, spanning across the Trust, covering clinical diagnostics, the Central England Rehabilitation Unit (including Acquired Brain injury, Neuro rehabilitation and Stroke Rehabilitation), contract management and non-clinical support functions.

There is a strong emphasis on our transformation programme, focused on getting the right care to patients, at the right time, in the right place, with a mandate to only provide care in the acute setting that cannot be delivered elsewhere.

Your strategic planning skills are crucial as you will lead on the development of the Division's strategy. You will have demonstrable ability to execute a high level of financial control and be able to prove how your people management skills ensure your teams deliver excellent work. You will report back to the Executive Directors on performance, ensuring robust plans are in place to deliver good performance against agreed targets., The post holder will be accountable to the Chief Operating Officer for the effective strategic and operational management of the Support Services Division, ensuring delivery of high-quality patient care services within the resources available. This will be achieved through the development, performance management and support of all clinical and non-clinical based services within the Division.

The role also has a responsibility to lead and co-ordinate the improvement of all care and support pathways within the Division across the organisation in liaison with other divisional teams.

Key responsibilities include the operational and strategic leadership of the Division, encompassing the management of all resources and the achievement of agreed performance objectives within the context of National and Trust frameworks. The Associate Director will manage the members of the Divisional Management Team and member of the Trust Management Board and will also act deputise for the Chief Operating Officer, as required.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.