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Job overview

The Group Chief Operating Officer is a full Executive (non-voting) Director of the Lincolnshire Community Health Services Trust & United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (the Group) and member of the unitary Group Board.

As a key member of the Group Board and Group Executive Leadership team, is expected to work as part of an integrated team and take lead responsibility for strategic and corporate issues both within and external to their immediate portfolio, making a major contribution to the achievements of the Groups vision and strategic goals.

The Group Chief Operating Officer has the crucial leadership function overseeing the complex and interconnection with the hospital operational delivery along with the Chief Integration Officer who oversees the interconnected out of hospital community-based operational delivery, within a wider Integrated Care System, and ensuring all are aligned against a shared and common Group strategy. 

The Group Chief Operating Officer will be responsible for all aspects of both emergency, diagnostic and planned care, cancer recovery, ensuring backlogs are reduced as quickly as possible, improved pathway management, giving patients equitable, inclusive and informed access, bookings and choice which are delivered through our hospitals. The post holder will also be responsible for reporting all aspects of this operational performance to the Group Board, ICB and NHSE, including benchmarking and trajectories. 

Main duties of the job

• Accountability for operational delivery of the acute and community hospitals and corporate performance, working across the Group and wider system to ensure a sustainable model that meets constitutional standards.
• As a member of the Group Executive Leadership team, contributing to the key business decisions of the Group and contribute to the development, communication and promotion of Group purpose, vision, aims and objectives.
• As a member of the Group Executive Leadership team, provide assurance to the Group Board through the sub-committees and the non-executive leads, on the delivery of the Group purpose, vision, aims and objectives.
• Oversee Urgent & Emergency Care delivery, balancing pressures across the Group to ensure that we achieve optimum patient flow.
• Oversee the design and delivery of the planned care recovery programme and the associated cancer and diagnostic programmes, ensuring we meet national targets for long waiters and overall backlog reduction.
• The Accountable Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Resilience Officer at the Group Board.
• Working closely with the Group Chief Executive and the Group Executive Leadership Team to lead plans to achieve positive changes in organisational culture within operational delivery areas, implemented at site level.
• Group wide responsibility for Estates & Facilities Management, managing central contracts, the estates capital programme and the sustainability plan.

Working for our organisation

Our Group is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire, serving a population of more than 750,000 people. Lincolnshire is such a wonderful place to live and work with many opportunities to grow and develop as well as spend time on hobbies, activities and taking in local historic sites. Find out more on the Visit Lincolnshire website.

Our Group provides community, acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. Our 2023/24 Group annual income was c£874m, and we employ approximately 11,000 WTE staff.

We provide services at Lincoln County Hospital, Grantham and District Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, as well as running services from community hospital sites and other community locations across Lincolnshire.

We are looking for an inspirational leader to move our Group into the next phase of integration. We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people working to co-design services with our population.

Relocation package available in line with Trust policy.