You will embrace our values and ensure that they are demonstrated whilst carrying out all responsibilities of the role; we: put patients first; look after our people; give great quality care; lead the way in transforming patient care; contribute towards the wellbeing of our local communities. Key duties and responsibilities include: As chief operating officer you are accountable to the chief executive and gtd healthcare Board for the effective and efficient day to day operations across the group, delivering patient care to the highest levels of safety and quality, leading services in order to meet national and local performance standards and targets, ensuring regulatory compliance whilst operating within agreed financial parameters. Alongside Executive colleagues, you will contribute to the development and implementation of gtd healthcare service strategy, and to the corporate development of the Board. You will work effectively with colleague Director leads and external partners to plan and deliver commissioned services, ensuring that locality and service specific plans, where necessary, are developed and performance managed, and patient care is delivered in line with national and local targets. You will oversee and be accountable for the delivery of operational and service transformation plans that underpin gtd healthcares improvement programmes and efficiency drives. You will lead a senior operational team to ensure consistency of leadership behaviour and foster a positive operational management culture of performance, continuous improvement and patient safety. You will embody the values and corporate personality of gtd healthcare to help ensure that these are understood by all and lived by staff across all our clinical and operational services. Your role will include ensuring timely and accurate performance information and operational intelligence is available to support the decision-making process of the executive directors, wider board of directors and its relevant sub-committees to ensure resources are used efficiently, and to optimise healthcare delivery within a financially viable and clinically safe and stable environment. As chief operating officer it is vital that you give significant leadership to ensure the embedding of the QuEST, Quality, Excellence and Strategic Transformation, Programme across gtd healthcare along with other future transformation initiatives, advocating for and role modelling the improvement tools, skills, and mindsets to enable the success of the programme. You will lead with kindness and humility, with a leadership style that supports a continuous improvement culture. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across our strategic provider partners, such as the Greater Manchester Urgent Care Alliance, to ensure gtd healthcare are active participants in developing plans and successfully delivering services. As part of the Executive team you will role model positive behaviours to the wider organisation through being part of an inclusive, collaborative and effective values driven leadership team. As the executive operational lead you will lead the organisation planning for and implementation of emergency responses which may be internal or part of a wider system effort. The position will be adopt full Director duties on the gtd healthcare unitary Board.