Chief Operating Officer

The Chief Operating Officer is the executive lead for operational performance and for the Trust's relationships with strategic partners at Place and System level. The full job description and person specification are attached to this advert, along with a candidate information pack.

Strategic and corporate

• Contribute significantly to the Trust's purpose: to improve the life chances and health outcomes of its population.
• Work with Blackpool health and care partners and the Lancashire & South Cumbria Provider Collaborative to deliver more integrated, sustainable, local services.
• Develop and maintain relationships with partners at Place and System level to deliver the Trust's strategy for population health and acute services, including the development of the Place Partnership(s).
• Maintain effective relationships with regulators, particularly NHS England and the Care Quality Commission.
• Lead the clinical activity section of the annual operational plan, and contribute to the Trust Strategy through the annual Single Improvement Plan.
• Lead delivery against national standards, taking remedial action where performance varies and advising the Board on performance, risks and actions.
• Promote the Trust's values, equality, diversity and inclusion, including executive leadership of an inclusion network.

Professional leadership

Develop the divisional and directorate leadership teams, including succession planning, with the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nurse and Chief People Officer.

Review the performance of the divisional management teams and ensure continued improvement.

Ensure the financial management of operational services through service leads.

Clinical service delivery and performance

• Be accountable for day-to-day operational delivery across all inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• Establish performance planning and management frameworks, and lead capacity planning across hospital and community services.
• Pursue service development within the Clinical Service Strategy and Place Partnership Strategy, across the Trust and the Provider Collaborative.
• Support the Chief Financial Officer on in-year contract management.

Emergency planning and resilience

Ensure a comprehensive, up-to-date emergency plan is in place, lead the Emergency Planning Group and advise the Board on resilience.