Head of Service Development & Performance

Job summary

We are seeking to appoint an Associate Chief Operations Officer to support service development and performance, with a proven track record in delivering high performing services for patients. Your leadership will make a big contribution to the development and delivery of paediatric services organised around the needs of the children and young people.

This role represents a great opportunity for a senior operational healthcare leader to have real positive impact, developing the services we provide to children and young people.

Your key strengths will be your abilities to work with clinical teams to deliver innovation and service improvement developments that benefit patients. You will bring an evidenced track record of achievement and personal impact in a complex, acute healthcare organisation; you'll have a reputation for the delivery of outstanding quality of care, service transformation and performance management. In return you will be joining a committed, supportive and close working leadership team, who set high standards for our patients.

You will be educated to a minimum of master's degree level or equivalent, with a record of proactive personal development. You will be highly committed, organised and dynamic, with a high level of personal integrity and an authentic and engaging leadership style.

Main duties of the job

The key responsibilities of the role are:

• Service development: you will use system management skills and project management expertise to support service teams to produce service development plans and clinical strategies. You will design and embed monitoring and assurance systems to track progress and impact.

You will lead on the delivery of a number of cross-cutting or large-scale service developments and projects.

• Planning: you will be the operational lead for co-ordinating Alder Hey's annual operational plan. You will liaise with professional groups, including HR and finance, and the divisional leadership teams to produce the plan. Creating systems to monitor ongoing performance and delivery against the plan will be required.
• Performance: responsible for developing and maintaining a performance system that informs Executives and Divisions as to whether we are assured or not that our services are compliant with national performance standards and objectives for the year.

About us

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 330,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our new Sunflower House building at the Alder Hey Hospital site.

the Trust employs a workforce of 4,236 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We're also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 930 medical, physician associates and dental students and over 950 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

Employer details

Employer name

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Alder Hey Children's Hospital

Liverpool

L12 2AP

Employer's website

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Alder Hey Children's Hospital

Liverpool

L12 2AP

Employer's website

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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