Chief Operating Officer

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Chief Operating Officer, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust - Alumni Global

The Chief Operating Officer will provide effective leadership and delivery of all our services, clinical processes and systems to deliver safe outstanding care and will ensure the workforce is led and managed and contributes to making Sheffield Health and Social Care a great place to work.

This role will lead operational delivery by making best use of all of resources and driving maximum value to ensure safe high-quality and person-centred care, with particular attention to the delivery of our agreed performance targets and outcomes, value for money and the effective and professional leadership of the largest part of our workforce.

Responsible for operational leadership of flow and management of demand and capacity across services.

Responsible for the implementation and delivery of agreed change programmes, supporting the realisation of our strategic priorities and delivery of tangible benefits.

Be the Board level lead for Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR).

Main duties of the job

As a Director of the Trust Board and a member of the Executive Team you will:

1. Be a role model for effective values led inclusive leadership in SHSC, driving a positive can-do culture and actively promoting respect, openness, participation and team working.
2. Demonstrate an unrelenting commitment to driving forward the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.
3. Work with senior colleagues to continuously improve the quality and delivery of service to users and carers.
4. Play a full and active role as a Board member and as a member of the Executive Team, participating actively in all Board activity.
5. Actively engage with colleagues to provide support and challenge to achieve their goals as well as your own.
6. Be an active partner in the System, at Place and within the Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism (MHLDA) Collaborative, advocating for the advancement of services for people we work with.
7. Develop and maintain good and productive working relationships with partners relevant to profession and portfolio.
8. Adhere to the standards laid down in the NHS Code of Conduct for managers and at all times act in a manner that reflects and promotes the values of SHSC.
9. Meet the Fit and Proper person test to be a Board Director.
10. Effectively participate in SHSC's Executive on call rota.
11. Be responsible, with support, for advancing and maintaining your personal development and learning and that of your direct reports and teams.

About us

To help us deliver the very best care to the people we support, we’ve outlined a vision of what that looks like, and how we’re going to achieve it.

Our vision and strategy ensure that we always know what direction we’re moving in and how we’re going to measure success.

Our vision

Our vision is to improve the mental, physical and social wellbeing of the people in our communities.

We will do this by:

• Working with and advocating for the local population
• Refocusing our services towards prevention and early intervention
• Continuous improvement of our services
• Locating services as close to peoples homes as we can
• Developing a confident and skilled workforce
• Ensuring excellent and sustainable services

Our values

Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at the Trust is expected to live and breathe.

We are proud to live our values each and every day. They outline how we will act to ensure we provide the very best care to the people we support.

Our values are:

• Working together for our service users
• Respect and kindness
• Commitment to quality
• Improving lives

In 2021 we worked with our staff to review and relaunch our values to ensure they reflected the behaviours we expect from everyone at Team SHSC.

Job responsibilities

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and in discussion with the manager the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the Banding of the post. The job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.

Equal opportunities and dignity at work statement of intent. We are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of and meets the needs of the local community.

We aspire to be an active anti-racist organisation. This means that we recognise that racism and inequality exist that it is absolutely unacceptable and that we have a responsibility to challenge and tackle all forms of racism including microaggressions.

We are committed to making equality of opportunity and fair treatment a reality whereby an individual can seek, obtain and continue employment without unfair discrimination.

As an equal opportunity employer, we will ensure that all job applicants and employees receive fair and equal treatment and will not be disadvantaged by unjustified conditions or requirements.

Our Equal Opportunities and Dignity at Work Policy underpins our commitment to achieve equality and fairness at work and to ensure that individuals or groups are not unfairly discriminated against.

Safeguarding children and adults: SHSC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people (anyone under the age of 18) and adults. It expects all staff, volunteers and contracted staff to share this commitment and act in such a way that safeguards and promotes the health and wellbeing of children, young people and adults.

You must ensure that you are familiar with the signs and symptoms of abuse and know what to do if any such concerns are raised.

You are expected to know about and follow the safeguarding children and safeguarding adult policies which can be found on our intranet and participate in related mandatory/statutory training.

Risk management: Staff should be aware of the principles of risk management and adopt appropriate practice to reduce the risk to themselves and others. In particular, you should observe our Risk Management Strategy, Risk, Incident & Serious Incident reporting and management policies, Health & Safety regulations and the risk management training requirements for all staff.

Infection prevention and control: You are expected to comply with the Trust's Infection Prevention & Control policies and conduct themselves in such a manner as to minimize the risk of causing healthcare associated infections.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualifications in management or leadership of complex organisations
• OR in change management.
• Evidence of continued professional development high level.
• Masters or equivalent in relevant subject

Experience

• Experienced senior leader with extensive NHS experience in a challenging operational context.
• Experience of building and leading improved performance and outcomes across operational teams and services.

Knowledge & Skills

• Evidence of meaningfully involving and engaging service users, carers and communities in their care and design of services.
• Evidence of effective Board level/senior operational leadership in NHS or Local Authority settings.
• In-depth understanding of models of care in mental health, learning disabilities and autism.
• Sophisticated understanding and deployment of models to improve effectiveness and efficiency/Productivity.
• Experience of delivering safe efficiency programmes.
• Experience of delivering complex change programmes with visible and measurable outcomes including value for money and benefits.
• Leading and managing large groups of people effectively.
• Understanding and experience of identifying and changing unhelpful and closed cultures.
• Strong evidence of understanding of the Equality, Diversity and Race agenda, with demonstrable examples of change and improvement in this area.

Other

• Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
• Corporately loyal and able to advocate for, and show pride in, the organisation.
• Forms very effective working relationships with colleagues and is a role model for collaborative leadership, team working and our values.
• Advocates for all staff groups and individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity.
• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems.

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.

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