If you have any questions on the role please contact Chris Evans, Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officer
Email:
[email protected]Telephone: 01924 543618
About The Role
This is a key and vital role in delivering our operating plan and achieving our strategic aims. The post holder will have significant ability to influence, shape and continually improve the services within the Family & Clinical Support Services Division.
Accountable to the Chief Operating Officer / Deputy CEO, the responsibility will be to deliver through triumvirate leadership within the division working to the Divisional Clinical Director and alongside the Director of Midwifery, Children’s Services and Women’s Health.
Key objectives will include leadership for the division, to provide high quality safe care, with timely access, and living within financial means.
Main duties
- Drive divisional performance, ensuring delivery of all local and national standards across activity, quality, finance, and workforce.
- Lead strategic capacity planning and patient flow, optimising resources to meet emergency access, elective, and cancer performance targets.
- Shape and deliver sustainable service plans in line with Trust priorities, securing investment through robust business cases.
- Lead complex change and transformation programmes, embedding innovation and best practice to improve quality, efficiency, and patient outcomes.
- Oversee risk, compliance, and clinical governance, ensuring standards, NICE guidance, and learning from incidents are implemented.
- Provide visible, values-driven leadership, empowering teams and working in strong partnership with clinical leaders.
Key Requirements
You will have a commitment to service improvement in line with our Improving Together programme and working as part of a senior team that fosters an environment of distributive leadership and promotes high standards with emphasis placed upon adherence to the Trust values and behaviours.
You will need to have significant operational experience and to keep both patients and staff welfare at the centre of your personal professional values. You will need to demonstrate commitments to working in collaboration with system partners and to have proven record of accomplishment of leading multidisciplinary teams in Healthcare environments.
Please refer to the job description and person specification to view the full requirements for the role.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application Guidance
We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Our Benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
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