Skip to main content

This site is independent of the NHS and the Department of Health.

Please wait, loading

Job summary

Main area
Associate Chief Operating Officer
Grade
Band 8d
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call rota)
Job ref
229-MED-4946693-B
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Town
Hereford
Salary
£83,571 - £96,376 PA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
04/06/2024

Employer heading

Wye Valley NHS Trust logo

Associate Chief Operating Officer - Medical Division

Band 8d

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic member to join our excellent operational team. 

To be accountable for the operational performance of the Medical Division, to include delivery of high quality patient care. clinical governance, patient safety, clinical quality and delivery of performance and financial targets. 

To have joint responsibility with your team for driving forward divisional wide strategic programmes of work and service development.

To ensure the Medical Division is closely aligned with the Trust's overall strategy to deliver quality patient care and ensure the necessary corporate governance arrangements are in place across the division in line with all commissioners and regulator requirements.  

To work closely with the Chief Operating Officer to shape and implement the corporate objectives of the Trust.  

 

Main duties of the job

The main functions of the the role include:

Risk and Clinical Governance:  risk management arrangement and support monitoring of compliance with clinical governance standards and Trust policies and procedures

Manage the resolution of complaints, conflicts and issues for patients, staff and all internal service providers in a timely and appropriate manner 

Performance Management:   delivery of agreed performance indicators in relation to clinical outcomes, clinical efficiency and service line reporting through workforce KPI's. 

Ensure clearly defined performance objectives to delivery continuous improvement. 

To effectively report, record and monitor performance against targets and proactively manage any variances.   To provide regular reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Officers

Managerial Responsibilities:  To ensure training and development of key staff, management of consultant medical staff job planning, annual appraisals and personal development plans, managing with workforce agenda 

Financial Responsibilities:  authorising signatory for capital and revenue budgets, key financial reporting responsibilities and developing effective benchmarking tools to drive service improvement 

 

 

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.

 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience in clinical services management at a senior level including staff management, financial management, performance management and change management
  • A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
  • Excellent inter-personal skills and communication skills with a track record for writing complex business cases and policies

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First degree or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of other specialist knowledge at higher degree or masters level
  • Extensive knowledge of the NHS in the acute sector with up to date knowledge of patient services
  • Evidence of CPD

Leadership Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates self-awareness
  • Acts with integrity; values respects and promotes equality and diversity; service excellence; patient-centred approach; teamwork and mutual respect
  • Able to organise and manage themselves while taking into account the needs and priorities of others
  • High level of work organisation, selfmotivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude;
  • Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employercorporate covenantNHS Rainbow badge

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.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Andrew Parker
Job title
Chief Operating Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01432 364000
Apply online nowAlert me to similar vacancies