Group Chief Delivery Officer

Job summary

Reporting to the Group CEO, the Chief Delivery Officer will be an integral appointment to the senior leadership team. With group-wide responsibility for developing RFL's systems and processes, ensuring the delivery of the highest standards of care across the group and the wider ICS, and bringing together the group's ambitions and innovation into cohesive, deliverable, programmes of work, the CDO will play a pivotal role in achieving RFL's strategic goals.

As a voting member of the Trust Board, you will contribute to the development and, critically, execution of the RFL group strategy and performance priorities, drive operational excellence across the Group, and lead on delivery of specific programmes of improvement, innovation and transformation. You will have demonstrable operational management skills coupled with influencing, partnering, leadership experience, and a substantial track record of effective delivery in complex NHS organisations, both within individual organisations and beyond.

Main duties of the job

• As a Corporate and Executive Director of the RFL Group board the post holder is expected to contribute fully to the development of strategy and policy and to delivery of statutory and corporate responsibilities.
• To lead the planning function of the Group ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and statutory/national requirements.
• Group Executive level lead on operational delivery in particular constitutional targets - Urgent and Emergency Care, RTT, Cancer and Diagnostics.
• To lead the delivery of performance reporting and business intelligence so information may be effectively monitored, analysed, reported, and used to drive operational delivery across the Group. The post holder is also responsible for the data integrity and reliability to support the Trust's submissions to regulators and other external stakeholders
• To drive the development of a standard operating model across the Group and have lead responsibility for implementation and maintenance.
• To work with the executive leadership of the hospital sites within the Group to achieve operational excellence.
• To work with fellow CDOs and CEOs across North Central London integrated care system and across London to put operational excellence and population health at the heart of what we do.
• To be the lead on providing a consistent RFL Group voice on relevant strategic and all operational matters in the ICS.
• To be the Group lead for emergency preparedness, ensuring we meet our legal and regulatory requirements.

About us

The Royal Free London - World class care, local expertise

The Royal Free London (RFL) is a special organisation. A historic teaching hospital which has served communities in North London and its surrounds since its foundation in 1828, RFL combines world class medical expertise with local and friendly care, as it strives to tackle health inequalities in this vibrant part of the capital. Comprised of The Royal Free, Barnet, and Chase Farm hospitals, it is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and treats approximately 1.6m patients every year. The Trust has a strong reputation for innovation, high performance and partnership-building: not only does it closely collaborate with its neighbours (the North Middlesex University Hospital, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital), it also performs a significant role within UCL Partners, the UCL Health Alliance, and in the North Central London Integrated Care Board.

RFL's mission is to be world class in its innovative healthcare services, ground-breaking clinical research, and future-focused teaching, combining world-leading expertise with local care - and the group is now looking for an executive team leader who will share that ambition, and lead inclusively across the group, supporting the delivery of improvement, change and innovation, and enabling the excellent, sustained, performance and transformation its communities need.