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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and dynamic strategic leaders who share our passion for the highest quality clinical care. The Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Managing Director will thrive in a complex and fast paced environment and demonstrate exemplary leadership qualities which are consistent with the Trust’s values.

Being able to articulate a vision is an essential attribute along with exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

The COO is responsible for developing clinical strategies, alongside Executive colleagues, and then has the prime responsibility for ensuring that those strategies are delivered.

This opportunity requires exceptional communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills and the ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

This is an opportunity for the right candidate, with the right experience and who shares our values and passion for the highest quality clinical care.

We welcome applications from visionary leaders with significant experience of strategic leadership within the NHS acute sector.

Main duties of the job

Our Chief Operating Officer (COO)/Deputy Managing Director for North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust will work collaboratively across organisational and professional services to deliver the shared ambitions and the objectives of The Group to improve care, outcomes and use of resources.

The COO/Deputy Managing Director forms part of a Site Leadership triumvirate, with the Medical Director and Nursing Director, with oversight of the hospital's clinical and operational leadership teams and support functions.  The triumvirate will report into the Group Chief Medical Officer, Group Managing Director and Group Chief Nursing Officer. As such, the COO is also Deputy Managing Director for the Group and responsible for the operational and financial delivery of one of its Trusts.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced, dynamic, and high calibre individual who will be responsible for the effective and efficient day to day operation of the hospital, delivering patient care to the highest levels of safety and quality, meeting all national and local performance criteria and targets, whilst operating within agreed financial parameters.

You will contribute to the development and implementation of the Group strategy, in the context of national and local priorities and will contribute to the corporate development of the Board of Directors.

Working for our organisation

Our Group

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the area’s largest employers, with a budget of circa £1.2 billion and over 15,000 staff who deliver acute, tertiary and community health and care services across the Tees Valley, North Yorkshire, County Durham and beyond.

We have high ambitions and are committed to delivering more together for the populations we serve. In the spirit of greater collaboration, following a number of years of joint working, the two trusts have taken the decision to move to a Group model,  meaning that our two organisations remain separate, so they can represent their communities effectively, but enables the trusts to work at scale to take strategic decisions, which benefit the group as a whole and will deliver better outcomes for our patients, staff and the wider population.