Deputy Chief Executive

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Health and wellbeing support

NHS Car Lease schemes

Job summary

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Deputy Chief Executive to join our leadership team. This high‑profile role involves deputising for the Chief Executive, shaping strategy, performance and partnerships across South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.

You will lead on strategic planning, corporate governance and system collaboration, ensuring improvements in patient outcomes while supporting our workforce and wider NCN partnerships within NHS

Qualifications

• Experience at board level in an NHS organisation.
• Track record of strategic leadership and change management.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the board and senior teams, aligning strategy with delivery.
• Lead on strategic planning, partnerships and governance.
• Collaborate with system partners, regulators and ICS networks to deliver transformation.

Job description

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We are now seeking an exceptional Deputy Chief Executive to join our leadership team in a rare opportunity to step into a broad and significant leadership position, with the ability to shape the future direction of DBTH and our wider systems in both South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. Regularly deputising for our Chief Executive, you will work with the board to deliver our vision: Healthier Together - delivering exceptional healthcare for all, leading a broad portfolio including strategy, transformation, improvement, partnerships, and place-based working.

We are seeking an exceptional executive leader with significant experience at board level and a track record of strategic leadership, performance improvement, and organisational change gained within complex NHS environments. Politically astute, inclusive and highly collaborative, you will quickly build trusted relationships across organisational and system boundaries. You will be comfortable leading through complexity and ambiguity, with the personal credibility, authenticity, and influence to inspire confidence in our workforce, our board and our partners. Above all, you will be passionate about improving outcomes for patients, reducing health inequalities and will role model the DBTH Way as we strive to realise our vision for the future.

Comfortable in leading at system level, you will work with partners across our two ICBs to strengthen our contribution as an anchor institution, to the neighbourhood agenda and to our provider collaboratives. Internally you will provide visible leadership and empower colleagues to accelerate the modernisation of our services; improving outcomes and reducing health inequalities for our communities.

You will be a voting Executive Director on the Board, responsible for working with the CEO, Executive team and Senior Leadership Team to develop the Trust's strategy and plans, as well as making sure that effective performance management systems are in place to ensure that the associated goals and objectives are delivered. Together with the CEO, you will work closely with the South Yorkshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Systems (ICS), Doncaster and Bassetlaw Places, South Yorkshire Acute Federation and Nottinghamshire Collaborative colleagues to deliver the IC...

Specifically, the Deputy CEO will be the lead Executive for strategic planning and Partnerships, and the lead Executive Director for Corporate Governance, with oversight of corporate risk management processes and ensuring effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Working for our organisation

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We look forward to exploring how you can contribute to the future success of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals.

Further information can be found in the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience and successful track record at Board level in an NHS organisation, with senior level experience in an NHS provider
• Demonstrable success in leading and delivering change and performance, with and through leadership, operational and clinical teams, by engaging them in strategic direction and delivery plans establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring capability to deliver
• Significant experience of working collaboratively and building effective working relationships with system partners and stakeholders, to deliver service transformation, organisational change and improvements
• Experience of effectively building and managing regulatory relationships
• Experience in and understanding of working within a regulatory framework, and in collaboration with regulators
• Track record of successfully leading transformation and change in a variety of project/programme environment at a senior level, ensuring engagement from key stakeholders
• A record of successful workforce, financial and resource management, ensuring high performance and holding individuals and teams to account
• Experience of leading Place-based integration working closely with Integrated Care System networks
• Board or senior level experience in an acute NHS provider setting

Qualifications & Training

• Graduate level qualification / training in relevant areas
• Master's Level education or equivalent experience