Deputy COO/ Associate Director of Operations

at  Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

The Deputy COO/ Associate Director of Operations is a key senior management and Senior leadership position with the responsibility and accountability to manage, develop, direct and lead service improvement and performance strategies and policies to ensure delivery of high quality, safe and efficient and effective patient care for Manchester and the wider Trust. The role will work alongside the Associate Medical Director and the Associate Director of Nursing and Quality as part of the triumvirate leadership team for the defined Manchester Care Group. They will also lead the joint partnership agreement collectively with Manchester Local Authority around the delivery of the Section 75 contract. This role has additional responsibilities deputising for the Chief Operating Officer and will take a corporate lead improving planned care and patient access across the Trust, to deliver improvement of all local and national planned care KPIs.
Ensure that the Organisational vision, strategic aims and objectives, values and culture of the Trust are actively promoted, and provide clear leadership and be a role model for their delivery. Provide senior operational leadership and management to the designated Manchester Care Group as part of the collective leadership team on behalf of the Chief Operating Officer ensuring high quality delivery of all operational services. Responsible for ensuring appropriate governance arrangements are in place, including risk management, health and safety, emergency planning (inc. business continuity) and Information Governance that support the organisational approach to governance and are in line with the Trusts risk management framework.
Ensure governance arrangements are maintained and tested to provide assurance that quality standards and outcomes are delivered for patients and their carers and that staff are supported in a safe environment

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