Chief Operating Officer

Role Overview

We are now seeking an outstanding operational leader who can build on the progress to date while bringing insight, ambition, and strategic clarity to the organisation. This is a challenging role at a challenging time, but one which offers genuine purpose, scale of impact and influence at Board level.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership across clinical operations, performance, workforce delivery and service transformation, ensuring the Trust delivers safe and effective care with a good patient experience.
• Lead delivery of the Trust’s operational strategy, translating our new 10‑year organisational strategy into measurable improvement and sustainable performance.
• Navigate an NHS landscape defined by rising demand, constrained resources, workforce challenges and evolving national priorities.
• Work closely with system partners across our Integrated Care System to deliver integrated, place‑based services and maximise population health outcomes.
• Play a central role in enabling service redesign, recovery and improvement, capital investment, digital transformation and productivity, ensuring patient care continues to improve.

About the Trust

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country, based across two sites: Royal Stoke in Stoke‑on‑Trent and County Hospital in Stafford. We serve around three million people and are highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research, and we are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

Commitment to Inclusion

UHNM creates and encourages a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. All employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role, and we offer a wide range of development packages to ensure everyone can fulfil their true potential. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected.

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