Deputy Chief Operating Officer

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional senior operational leader to join us as Deputy Chief Operating Officer (Planned Care).

This pivotal role provides strategic and operational leadership across all planned care services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and financially sustainable elective and outpatient services. The postholder will be responsible for driving operational performance, supporting elective recovery, and leading transformation across elective pathways, diagnostic services, theatres, outpatient departments and surgical specialties. This includes playing a central role in achieving national and local access standards, improving productivity, and enhancing patient experience across our planned care portfolio.

Based primarily at Wexham Park Hospital, the Deputy COO will form a key part of the senior triumvirate structure on site, offering visible leadership and daily operational support to divisional teams. Working closely with colleagues, the postholder will ensure cohesive site management while fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Alongside the Deputy COO for Emergency Care, the postholder will act as a critical deputy to the Chief Operating Officer, contributing to Trust-wide operational leadership, strategic planning and delivery.

The role also includes significant involvement in system-level collaboration, working across the three Integrated Care Systems connected to the Trust to support aligned planning, performance, and transformation on a wider scale. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and ambitious operational leader to shape the future of planned care services within a progressive and high-performing Trust.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Full job description, person specification and additional details are attached to this advert, or via our Candidate Pack

• Educated to postgraduate level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of ongoing senior leadership development

• Significant senior operational leadership experience within a large, complex NHS organization

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.

Depending on experienceAs per Very Senior Managers (VSM) pay framework