Chief Operating Officer

Job overview

Lead operational excellence. Deliver transformational change. Improve lives.

We are seeking an exceptional Chief Operating Officer (COO) to join our Executive Team and Board (non-voting), playing a critical role across the Trust, the BSW Hospitals Group and the wider Integrated Care System.

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape strategy, drive performance and help deliver high-quality, equitable and sustainable care for our population. Working across organisational boundaries, you will turn ambition into delivery, strengthen collaboration and create the conditions for consistently safe and effective patient care.

As our Chief Operating Officer, you will provide visible, strategic Board-level leadership across performance, governance and service delivery. You will lead capacity, patient flow and service performance across all specialties, working closely with clinical, operational and finance colleagues to meet key standards and deliver sustainable, high-value services.

Main duties of the job

In this key leadership role you will:

• Deliver operational excellence and performance against national and local priorities,improving performance, access, patient flow and productivity.
• Lead transformation at scale, redesigning services and pathways to improve quality, efficiency and patient outcomes.
• Deliver sustainable financial improvement, including agreed cost improvement and transformation programmes.
• Turn strategy into delivery, leading the Trust's annual and three-year business plans and providing clear operational accountability.
• Strengthen collaboration across the BSW Hospitals Group and wider system, developing shared pathways and models of care. Delivering operational alignment and service optimisation across the Group, supporting consistent standards, shared workforce, and efficient use of resources
• Build organisational resilience and continuous improvement, ensuring robust operational, emergency preparedness and performance arrangements. Overseeing business continuity and emergency preparedness

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be a proven senior leader with:

• A strong track record of operational delivery in complex healthcare environments
• Experience leading large-scale transformation and improvement
• Credibility at Board and system level
• A collaborative, values-driven leadership style that inspires and empowers teams
• Demonstrable experience of system leadership, partnership working and delivering outcomes across organisational boundaries

Please see attached job description and candidate information pack for further information about this opportunity .

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties 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.