Job summary
- Main area
- Operational Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call requirements)
- Job ref
- 241-368FD-26
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Musgrave House
- Town
- Bolton
- Salary
- £79,504 - £91,609 1% on call fee per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Director of Operational Improvement
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
This advertisement is for two positions, one held within the Families & Diagnostics Divisional Leadership Team and the other within the Medicine Divisional leadership team.
Please see attached Job Overview for full advert details
Interviews for these posts will be held w/c 6th July
Main duties of the job
· Provide senior operational leadership and management across assigned services, ensuring delivery against performance improvement, quality, and financial targets.
· Lead and deliver programmes of service transformation to improve sustainability, efficiency, and patient outcomes.
· Maintain oversight of operational risks, ensuring appropriate controls and mitigations are in place to support safe and effective service delivery.
· Develop and implement innovative models of care and ways of working, supported by technology where appropriate.
· Lead programme management activity, ensuring robust governance, delivery, and reporting arrangements.
· Support performance management processes, using data and insight to inform decision-making and drive improvement.
· Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support delivery of organisational priorities.
· Provide leadership and direction to operational managers, ensuring accountability, consistency, and high performance.
Working for our organisation
Working at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust means being part of an organisation that is committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate care while creating an environment where colleagues feel valued, supported and able to thrive.
We are proud to be recognised as a great place to work, where staff are encouraged to reach their full potential and are actively supported through strong leadership, continuous development, and a culture that listens and responds to feedback.
Our teams work collaboratively across services and with partners to improve outcomes for the people of Bolton, with a shared focus on innovation, inclusion and reducing health inequalities.
We are committed to creating a positive and inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, staff feel empowered to speak up, and wellbeing is a priority.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of duties and responsibilities please see attached Job descriptions. Candidates are advised to review both job descriptions, which may differ slightly.
- Senior leadership role within the divisional structure with responsibility for operational delivery and transformation.
- Strong focus on performance and accountability, ensuring delivery against agreed targets and standards.
- Transformation and improvement driven, with responsibility for developing innovative service models and embedding best practice.
- Programme leadership remit, overseeing delivery of complex programmes and organisational priorities.
- System leadership expectations, requiring partnership working across multiple stakeholders, divisions and organisations.
- Governance and assurance responsibilities, including oversight of risks, incidents, and quality frameworks.
- People leadership focus, promoting accountability, staff engagement, and a high-performing culture.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Masters degree level or equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
- Demonstrable experience of managing services, delivering to target, within constraints and on time.
- Strong performance delivery ethos and ability to hold staff appropriately to account
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Experience of service improvement methodologies & delivery
- Experience of service improvement methodologies & delivery
Essential
Essential criteria
- Evidence of setting ambitious targets and of implementing innovative solutions to improve services within tight financial constraints.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leading complex service transformation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steph Clarke-F&D Division/Mike Chew-Medicine
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01204 390390
- Additional information
[email protected] - Divisional Director of Operations
Audrey Abbott - Performance & Operational Change Lead [email protected]
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