Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Posted 4 days ago by 1751696776
£550 Per day
Inside
Onsite
Birmingham
Summary: The Deputy Chief Operating Officer role at an NHS Trust in the West Midlands focuses on enhancing planned care services to recover elective care positions. The position requires a senior operational leader with experience in surgery and planned care, overseeing clinical services and ensuring compliance with national standards. The role is for a duration of 6 months and emphasizes on-site work. Previous NHS experience is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality clinical services across hospital sites, ensuring performance against key standards—particularly in elective care and cancer pathways
- Drive achievement and sustainability of national access targets and NHSE/CQC compliance through consistent application of operational processes and protocols
- Take lead responsibility for resolving daily patient flow issues, maintain a visible operational presence, and attend key meetings such as bed capacity reviews to support site-wide coordination
- Oversee productivity programmes within outpatient and theatre services, ensuring optimal resource utilisation and supporting Clinical Groups to achieve efficiency and financial targets
- Act as a senior decision-maker during operational pressures, deputising for the Chief Operating Officer and ensuring business continuity during periods of challenge or absence
- Ensure that clinical services have robust risk management and assurance systems in place, aligned with healthcare governance requirements and Trust policies
Key Skills:
- Experience in senior operational leadership within the NHS
- Knowledge of surgery and planned care
- Strong performance management skills
- Ability to manage patient flow and capacity effectively
- Experience in crisis and escalation management
- Understanding of operational governance and risk management
Salary (Rate): £550 daily
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Deputy Chief Operating Officer | West Midlands | 6 months
Castlefield Recruitment are delighted to be helping and NHS Trust source a Senior Operational leader. Working within a large organisation, the successful Deputy COO will focus more on the planned care side as the Trust looks to recover some of it's elective care position. Experience of working within Surgery and Planned Care is preferred but work within other Divisions such as Medicine, Family Health, A&E, Community and Diagnostics would be welcomed.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Day-to-Day Operational Oversight: Lead the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality clinical services across hospital sites, ensuring performance against key standards—particularly in elective care and cancer pathways
- Performance Management: Drive achievement and sustainability of national access targets and NHSE/CQC compliance through consistent application of operational processes and protocols
- Patient Flow & Capacity Management: Take lead responsibility for resolving daily patient flow issues, maintain a visible operational presence, and attend key meetings such as bed capacity reviews to support site-wide coordination
- Outpatients & Theatres Efficiency: Oversee productivity programmes within outpatient and theatre services, ensuring optimal resource utilisation and supporting Clinical Groups to achieve efficiency and financial targets
- Crisis & Escalation Management: Act as a senior decision-maker during operational pressures, deputising for the Chief Operating Officer and ensuring business continuity during periods of challenge or absence
- Operational Governance & Risk: Ensure that clinical services have robust risk management and assurance systems in place, aligned with healthcare governance requirements and Trust policies
This role will be for a period of 6 months and will be expected to work predominantly on site at the Hospital.
Please note: Previous NHS experience is highly desirable for this position.
For more information please contact Stephen Warne. 07570 721 519