Divisional Director

NHS; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 94,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Divisional Director for Urgent and Emergency Care. The role is a full-time post (37.5 hours per week) accountable to the Chief Operating Officer, leading strategic and operational delivery with a focus on safety, quality, and performance.

The post requires senior NHS experience, strong leadership, and governance capabilities to drive improvements and clinical pathways across the division and with partner organisations.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Masters degree or significant proven experience and improvement methodology.
• Experience in driving service improvement and change in complex organisations.

Responsibilities

• Accountable to the Chief Operating Officer with delegated responsibility to deliver strategic planning and operational management.
• Ensure safety, quality, service performance and financial objectives are met across the division.
• Lead development and motivation of teams, ensure governance and adherence to Trust values.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Change management

NHS/healthcare savvy

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent

Masters degree or significant experience

Experience in improvement methodology

Job description

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Divisional Director

Divisional Director - Urgent and Emergency Care

Working Full time : 37.5 hours per week

The closing date is 20 September 2026

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert for a very exciting vacancy within my senior team. I have been at the Trust for over four years, any we have made many improvements for our patients and our people. The improvement journey across Urgent and Emergency Care continues and I am looking for an experienced and visible leader to join my team.

We are working closely with system partners to ensure improvements get the right patient, to the right place to have the right care as soon as possible.

Our Emergency Services have had lots of investment including a new build SDEC and UTC, discharge lounge, additional resus space aa triage hub. Work will commence shortly to extend our space in our Clinical Decisions Unit

I am exceptionally proud of my senior team of operational leaders and all we have achieved together so far for our patients and you feel you have the experience and skills to be the accountable officer our most complex division please get in touch.

Cathy, Chief Operating Officer.

Main duties of the job

Accountable to the Chief Operating Officer, with delegated responsibility to the Deputy Chief Operating Officer, the Divisional Director is responsible for the strategic planning, operational management and delivery of the operational elements of patient care, ensuring that the key safety, quality, service performance, and financial objectives are met.

Working alongside the Associate Medical Director and Associate Director of Nursing the Divisional Director is responsible for ensuring maximum efficiency, promoting service improvement, optimum clinical pathways and ensuring regulatory targets and compliance against quality, risk and governance standards.

Leading the development, motivation, and inspiration of teams within the Division, the Divisional Director has overall responsibility for general management and their adherence to the Trust's values and behaviours.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costswill be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Relevant Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Professional specialist knowledge covering more than one relevant discipline e.g. clinical services, finance, personnel, IT, gained through Masters Degree or significant proven experience
• Relevant qualification or experience in improvement methodology

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience in a senior management role within the NHS or a large multi-functional public or commercial environment
• Demonstrate successful management of change within a large complex organisation
• Experience of developing business plans which support/deliver corporate and divisional objectives
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the NHS and the modernisation agenda particularly in relation to service delivery

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate at all levels
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust