Band 9 Deputy Chief Operating Officer - Bath NHS House

Deputy Chief Operating Officer Opportunity at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Are you a seasoned healthcare leader with a passion for mental health and learning disability care? Do you thrive on driving transformative change and achieving clinical excellence? If so, we invite you to consider applying for the role of Deputy Chief Operating Officer (Deputy COO) at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP).
Challenges Ahead:
Despite our successes, challenges remain. We're actively seeking innovative approaches to address issues such as the volume of ADHD assessments.
Why AWP?
· Positive Momentum: AWP is currently experiencing a positive moment in its history. We've successfully reduced out-of-area placements and significantly minimised reliance on agency nursing and support worker staff.
· High Performance: Our commitment to excellence has earned us recognition as a high-performing organisation.
· Transformational Progress: Our large-scale transformation programme has made significant strides in service access, specialist pathways, and integration with system partners., As Deputy COO, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring integrated mental health and learning disability services across two Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) - Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) , and Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) and the South West Provider Collaborative. You will work with the clinical directors who oversee our three operational divisions., · To support the Chief Operating Officer in leading a culture which is compassionate and person centred working to the trust's and NHS values
· Provide professional line management supervision for the Divisional Directors of Operations, working closely with the Divisional Clinical Directors (CD) who have line management responsibility
· Take responsibility for demand, capacity and flow management across the organisation by implementing, monitoring, reporting and improving evidence based methodologies.
· Ensure that all services offer safe, high quality care with "least restrictive" and "closest to home solutions"
· Support delivery of trust-wide transformation programmes which are aimed at quality improvement as well as efficiency benefits co-produced with people who use services, their families and carers
· Ensure the local and national requirements for Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response (EPRR) are met
· As a senior manager within the Trust's management team, actively contribute to the leadership of the organisation, providing the vision, strategy and business performance to enable AWP to realise its vision of being the provider of choice to our natural healthcare market
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system 'TRAC'. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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· Passion: Your commitment to mental health and learning disability care drives your work.
· Proven Leadership: You have a track record of transforming care, focusing on clinical outcomes, and achieving high performance and efficiency.
· Experience: You're an experienced healthcare leader who thrives in complex environments.
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you're ready to make a difference and contribute to our mission, we encourage you to contact Mathew Page for an initial discussion [email protected] .

Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.