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Job Summary
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 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.
Main duties of the job
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. You will 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 SHSCs 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
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.
Our Values Are:
* Working together for our service users
* Respect and kindness
* Everyone counts
* Commitment to quality
* Improving lives
Qualifications
Essential
* 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
Essential
* 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
Essential
* 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 realisation.
* 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
Essential
* 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 characteristic; 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Centre Court, Atlas Way, Sheffield, S4 7QQ
Employer's website: https://www.shsc.nhs.uk/working-us
Seniority level
* Executive
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Management
* Industries: Strategic Management Services
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