# Chief Operating Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-operating-officer/75a9caa1-ce1e-41df-87fb-dd914904b481 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-operating-officer/75a9caa1-ce1e-41df-87fb-dd914904b481.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal United Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Chief operating officer - **Salary:** £100000.00 to £200000.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-08T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T14:26:50.021Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8369001 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8369001?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ruh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Detailed knowledge and understanding of financial, management and clinical issues associated with an Acute Trust - Knowledge and understanding of NHS performance targets, the safety agenda, financial procedures and statutory regulations - Sound knowledge of corporate governance and risk management - Knowledge of national NHS policy and strategy ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of executive leadership in a complex healthcare organisation - Experience leading large-scale transformation and improvement - Board experience in an Acute Trust - Demonstrable experience of system leadership, partnership working and delivering outcomes across organisational boundaries ### Qualifications **Essential** - Masters level qualification or equivalent experience - Evidence of continuing professional development ## Documents - [join the ruh (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3030) - [coo - candidate information pack (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10705974) - [job description - chief operating officer (pdf, 392.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10705971) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.