Job overview

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a progressive, forward thinking healthcare provider as our Chief Operating Officer.

This is a pivotal leadership role within our organisation, responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality, patient-centred services across the Trust. They will lead programmes of transformation and improvement, embedding a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organisation. 

As an executive director and a member of the Board of Directors, the Chief Operating Officer will work with colleagues to support the development of an open and engaging culture for our patients, relatives and staff that encourages excellence in clinical practice, facilitates team working and embraces multi-professional care delivery.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust following the recent appointment of our new Chief Executive, we are now seeking to appoint a Chief Operating Officer who guided by 'our four P's' - Patients, People, Performance and Partnerships, will inspire continued success for the organisation and the WWL Family.

We understand the importance of ensuring that our Board of Directors is as diverse as possible. Diversity in leadership for us means greater depth and breadth of experience and perspective, which in turn allows for a greater ability to relate to our colleagues and their representatives, our patients and their families and our partners.

Main duties of the job

The Chief Operating Officer is responsible for ensuring the provision of safe, high quality, patient-centred services on a day-to-day basis that meet performance standards and address health inequalities within identified resources. They will lead programmes of transformation and improvement, ensuring the adoption and promotion of improvement approaches across services. They will lead the development of strong working relationships at both system and locality level, to ensure that we play a major role in system partnerships and collaborative models of care; redesigning those where necessary in collaboration with our partners.

As an executive director and a member of the Board of Directors, the Chief Operating Officer will work with colleagues to support the development of an open and engaging culture for our patients, relatives and staff that encourages excellence in clinical practice, facilitates team working and embraces multi-professional care delivery. The Chief Operating Officer is also the Accountable Emergency Officer for the foundation trust and has overall responsibility for emergency preparedness, resilience and response. This includes ensuring that the foundation trust has robust and appropriate processes and procedures in place to meet its requirements as a Category 1 responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and to ensure business continuity arrangements are in place.

Working for our organisation

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.