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Divisional Operational Director - Family Care
The closing date is 17 September 2025
As a resilient, dynamic, and experienced leader you could join our Trust in the pivotal role of Divisional Operational Director for the Family Care Division.
You are an experienced senior leader and have the highest professional standards and expectations. You're passionate and committed to delivering exceptional patient care with the skills, enthusiasm, and aspiration to make a difference. Patients are at the heart of all you do - they certainly are for us.
Along with credibility and compassion, you are an inclusive leader and understand the importance of living our values which are based around Proud to CARE. You will bring excellent communication and engagement skills to influence and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including our system and regional partners.
This role has a complex and demanding portfolio and so if your ambition matches ours, then we look forward to hearing from you.
Main duties of the job
The Divisional Operational Director is a core member of the divisional leadership team.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will work closely with a Divisional Clinical Director, once appointed, and the wider divisional leadership team, with shared accountability for the leadership, management, and continuous improvement of the Division.
You will have evidenced experience of your leadership and your impact across a broad portfolio including strategy, planning and transformation; business, people and financial management; performance and operations management; and risk management, clinical, quality and service improvement. You will champion development of colleagues, belonging and inclusion, and will motivate and inspire colleagues by role modelling our Proud to CARE values.
About us
We are looking for people who will ensure that we continue to deliver our vision, mission and values through our Together as One strategy and demonstrate our proud to CARE values. We have recently developed our expected leadership behaviours; our journey is one of continual improvement.
We are part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire (JUCD) health and care system and work collaboratively with South Yorkshire.
We have a history and place in our community, meaning we make a difference in people's lives daily. We employ more than 5,000 colleagues across a Group Structure which involved Chesterfield Royal Hospital,Royal Primary Careand our wholly owned subsidiary, DSFS.
We value diversity and understand the strength in leveraging diverse backgrounds and experiences to create teams that are representative of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a fair and inclusive culture, where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from people who are currently underrepresented in our senior leadership team. These include people from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. Last year we launched our anti-racism strategy and our approach is based on real action.
We prioritise health and wellbeing and have a free purpose-built fully-accessible Hub on-site, supporting colleagues with 24/7 gym, classes, and access to psychological support.
Job responsibilities
We are advertising for the role of Divisional Operational Director for Family Care.
The Divisional Operational Director is a key member of the leadership team for each Division. Working with the Divisional Clinical Director and wider divisional leadership team, you will have shared accountability for the leadership, management, and continuous improvement of the Division. This will include accountability for high quality patient care and safety, the delivery of agreed performance and financial objectives, and ensuring that the Division aligns, and positively contributes, to the Trusts strategic aims and objectives.
There are four Clinical Divisions in the Trust, Medicine and Emergency Care, Surgery, Family Care, and Diagnostics, Clinical Support and Cancer (DCSC).
The Family Care Division has a budget of approximately £42.4m and approximately 700 colleagues. The Division is made up of 3 Care Units; Maternity & Gynaecology, Child Health and CAMHS, which deliver a variety of high-quality, high-demand services to the population of Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.
Accountable to the Chief Operating Officer, the Divisional Operational Director will managerially lead the Divisional Clinical Director and wider Divisional Leadership Team, and Service Managers in delivering this purpose. The post holder will also have a joint line management arrangement with HR and Clinical Governance colleagues who provide shared support services to the DCSC Division.
A key dimension will be to support the Divisional Clinical Director and wider clinical leadership team in engaging the clinical and administrative teams in the complex management agenda including preparation for the annual operational planning round and the development of capacity and capability to deliver both local and national priorities.
The Divisional Operational Director is also a key member of the Trusts Leadership Team and will be required to lead on Trust Wide programmes of work, as well as deputising and representing the Chief Operating Officer at meetings internally and externally to the Trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Experience
* Financial management/budget management experience
* Proven track record of managing complex change whilst developing and maintaining high standards of quality.
* Highly developed problem solving skills
* Evidence of appropriate relevant professional development.
* Experience of leading teams with the ability to motivate others
* Involvement at a leadership level on issues relating to quality governance, monitoring and standard setting
* Experience of senior management and leadership of operational teams.
* Experience of working across different Divisions
* Experience of line management
* Experience of service re-design
Skills and Knowledge
* Leadership skills with an ability to influence at a senior level
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels
* Confident to manage change
* Proven track record of success
* Ability to communicate, both written and verbally, in a manner which is clear, fluent and persuasive.
* Ability to deal with highly sensitive and highly complex situations
* Effective negotiating, influencing and networking skills
* Ability to oversee and interpret performance targets
* Competent use of IT systems to produce regular reports
Personal Attributes
* Commitment to values and principles of the NHS
* Inclusive and developmental personal style and approach
* Inspiring and motivational
* Dynamic with personal impact
* Integrity and Tenacity
* Emotional toughness
* Portrays self-belief, self-awareness and drive for improvement
* Resourceful
* Highly professional role model
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.
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