Deputy Chief Operating Officer

Description:

This role is for a Deputy Chief Operating Officer working directly to the Chief Operating Officer, providing senior operational and strategic leadership ensuring the effective provision of health and care services across the organisation.

The role will lead and be accountable for the delivery of operational clinical services in geographical areas (“Place Alliances”) for physical and mental health services as well as one of the specialist services across the trust.

The post holder will be accountable for the coordination and delivery of high quality and safe clinical services, working in partnership with Medical Directors, professional leads and wider partners for health and care delivery. Providing both operational and strategic leadership, the post holder will be responsible for ensuring flexibility in capacity to meet demand and deliver both the local quality and safety agenda and all service targets.

The role will lead in driving key opportunities across the trust to support integrated working across services . It will ensure the effective implementation of pathways, supporting the emergence of Primary Care Networks (PCNs, Integrated Care Partnerships (ICP) and Provider Collaboratives. Strategically, this role will need to represent services in relevant forums, and in particular be responsible as the Trust’s representative in the place-based partnerships and integrated care pathways, feeding into system level delivery for Southeast London footprint.