Chief Operating Officer

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

It's an incredibly exciting time at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. The Board is in the process of resetting the Trust direction, which has resulted in some changes to the organisation's core purpose. This includes ambitions to become a leader in integrated children's services, and a national centre of excellence for our already established all-age mental health and learning disability and autism services.

Ambitious plans take ambitious people. We have already made significant progress and now we're seeking an inspirational and experienced Chief Operating Officer to continue the momentum ensuring excellence is embedded from the ground up. This role has executive responsibility for all aspects of service delivery, operational performance, and emergency preparedness. To do this, you'll have a track record of strategic and operational management obtained at or near Board level in a complex environment.

You'll join a dynamic Executive Team who are passionate about ensuring the voices of the communities we serve are at the heart of service developments. We strive to make decisions for the right reasons, with a clear focus on financial efficiency whilst delivering outstanding services.

Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills will be essential, and you will influence and engage our stakeholders in the Trust and externally. You will bring your professional expertise and knowledge to the Board and inspire our dedicated management teams.

Main duties of the job

If successful, you will join the Trust at a time which will be career-defining.

You must be creative and have a real focus on partnership working, as we strive to do more with our communities.

Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent post graduate qualification or equivalent senior experience
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development

Experience

• Proven experience of operating at a senior level within health services
• Experience of successfully managing significant operating budgets
• Experience of leading service development and innovation
• Proven experience of operating at a senior level within mental health, learning disability or physical health services
• Experience of building personal and professional credibility with Board, management, clinical teams and staff
• Sound understanding of clinical governance risk management and evidence of raising standards

Knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of the mental health and physical health service delivery agenda
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and demands
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively and co-operatively with colleagues and other partners
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills
• Capacity to think strategically and analyse and solve complex problems
• Inspirational leader who demonstrates the ability to lead and manage change.
• Commitment to developing a collective leadership culture within which people are open and work in partnership
• Ability to analyse and appropriately present complex information
• Sound judgement and decision making
• A visible leadership with an open, inclusive and empowering style
• Customer focused. A problem solver with a 'can do' attitude
• Access to an independent means of transport for business use

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust