Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
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Masters qualification or undertaking Master’s Degree/MBA or equivalent experience
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Extensive leadership and senior management experience in an acute healthcare provider setting.
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Substantial management experience and achievement at operational level plus evidence of achievement in strategic level projects or work streams.
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Substantial evidence of further Leadership and Management qualifications, further postgraduate study or equivalent experience.
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
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Experience in the mobilisation of integrated services
Job overview
Harrogate & District Foundation Trust aims to drive improvement across the organisation and the integrated care system, working with our system partners to improve the sustainability of high value service delivery for our patient population. Our purpose being to raise healthcare standards through innovative and sustainable change.
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer (Deputy COO) deputises for the Chief Operating Officer across the operations portfolio and provides leadership of Trust operations on a daily basis working closely with triumvirate teams and executives.
They will lead on delivery of the Trust’s core performance and quality standards related to ED, cancer, diagnostics and elective care including recovery. They will also lead key strategic changes to how HDFT delivers care in partnership with Divisional Teams in areas such as ED, patient flow and theatre productivity.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Leadership
- Service and Business Planning and Delivery
- Delivery of Performance Standards and Quality Patient Care
- Emergency Planning
- Corporate Governance
- Budgetary, Performance and Resource Management
Further details of the role can be found in the job description attached or in the job description and responsibilities section below.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this position, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Deputy Chief Operating Officer with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust in Harrogate, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Chief operating officer role. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Sep 2026.
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