Deputy COO – Mental Health and Deputy AEO

Deputy COO – Mental Health and Deputy AEO

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Trust as Deputy COO -- Mental Health and Deputy AEO. Our future Deputy COO will be a very experienced senior manager, with a high level of personal resilience and strong leadership skills amassed in leading large, complex and diverse service portfolios at sub-board level across a range of organisational settings. The postholder will be expected to act independently and be able to evidence taking timely and significant decisions to ensure operational delivery, driving change and improvement through supporting, influencing and directing.

The Deputy COO -- Mental Health & Deputy AEO will lead on Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) governance, processes, and assurance on behalf of the Chief Operating Officer. You will support our Chief Operating Officer in their role and will have delegated authority through the COO's office, providing significant leadership across the Trust, working closely with the Divisional teams to provide effective patient flow, timely admission, and discharge within inpatient care.

Main Duties of the Job

We are looking to speak with experienced, compassionate, and driven leaders who want to join us on our journey. This is an exciting time to work with us, and as our Deputy COO, you will contribute to the delivery of the Trust's strategic plan, work in partnership with the Divisional teams and external organisations to help us achieve our objectives.

You will support our Chief Operating Officer in their role and will have delegated authority through the COO's office, providing significant leadership across the Trust, working closely with the Divisional teams to ensure the safe and effective day-to-day operations of the organisation, as well as supporting tactical planning on wider operational and process improvements.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from candidates from the global majority, women, LGBTQ communities, and from people with lived experience of disability.

About Us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS FT (HIOW Healthcare) is a new NHS Trust, bringing together community, mental health, and learning disability services, aiming to improve consistency of care between these services and the organisations responsible. Over the past 18 months, we've worked hard to align our mental health, community, and learning disability services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to improve access to care, reduce duplication, and resolve unnecessary differences in practice and outcomes.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust's community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Job Responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. If as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief, or disability, please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of professional development.
• Previous experience of successful senior healthcare leadership, line managing operational Directors within Divisions/Localities within a similar/equivalent size and scale.
• Demonstrable achievement in negotiating and influencing others to achieve desired outcomes and win-win through collaboration.
• Previous experience of managing at a senior level a complex and large-scale provision of mental health across multiple sites.

Experience

• Proven track record of leadership at a senior level, managing an equivalent size, scale, and complexity within health or social care.
• Successful track record of managing complex organisational/transformational change and leadership management, workforce redesign at a large scale.
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries, and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
• Ability to or experience of presenting to Health Scrutiny Committee, Council Chamber, or equivalent.
• Strong record of multi-professional collaboration at a senior level.
• Experience of partnership working with service users, carers, and others.

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

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experience, based on full-time hours.