Chief Operating Officer - Oxford Academic Health Partners (OAHP)

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Chief Operating Officer - Oxford Academic Health Partners (OAHP) NHS AfC: Band 9 Main area Senior Manager Grade NHS AfC: Band 9 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working

37.5 hours per week (The post has access to an office base at OUH Cowley (in R & D) as required but the post holder can work from home, from the base and from other sites across the partners) Job ref 321-CORP B9-PUB

Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £105,385 - £121,271 Salary period Yearly Closing 04/04/:59 Interview date 24/04/2025

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

Job overview The Chief Operating Officer is the Senior Manager in the Oxford Academic Health Partners (OAHP), an established Academic Health Science Centre with the following Partners:

• University of Oxford,
• Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and
• Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley (HIOTV).

OAHP promotes and enables coordination between the Partners in research and research infrastructure, in teaching, education and workforce and in innovations to support local, regional, and national improvements in patient outcome. OAHP aims to facilitate and accelerate the translation of research into clinical practice to respond to major healthcare challenges such as multi-morbidity, mental health, and the best use of digital tools to improve care and patient self-management. OAHP is at the centre of a dynamic research culture which is strengthened by promotion of multidisciplinary working and collaboration, extending healthcare research and education into new disciplines.

The OAHP Chief Operating Officer (COO) is central to the development and delivery of the OAHP's objectives. The COO requires an unusual blend of skills and experience, most likely gained from working at a senior level in either NHS and University environments, or in related roles allied to health and medical sciences, with a strong track record project initiation, development, operational delivery, and implementation.

The post holder is required to operate at what is effectively Board level across five organisations to deliver against a national agenda and to bring together new and innovative ways of collaboration and partnerships.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring performance, setting, tracking and overseeing project delivery and managing resources over several years linked to the delivery of the Board's priorities.

The post holder will oversee and take part in the delivery of OAHP Board agreed objectives and programmes ensuring full engagement of Partners and their teams, their own involvement and leadership, and regular reporting to the Chair of and the OAHP Board and, through its members, to the Partner Boards.

The ability to act with autonomy in representing the views of the Board and the Partners is critical. The COO will be an accomplished, influential and inclusive leader with the ability to work across boundaries, representing all Partners.

Working for our organisation Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Working closely with the Director of OAHP, and the Chair of the OAHP Board, in developing and implementing OAHP strategy, taking the day-to-day lead on all aspects of OAHP objectives, and collaborations between Partners and with external stakeholders.
• Leading operations including management of and accountability for the OAHP Office and the budget, ensuring that funds are brought in from the Partners and ensuring OUH's financial policies and procedures are met.
• Leading the development of the widest possible engagement with Partners, briefing the Director, the Chair and the OAHP Board appropriately.
• Formulating five-year strategic plans for the Board's consideration, addressing uncertainty and prioritisations that may impact across OAHP partners.
• Identifying knowledge nodes and opportunities for collaboration and negotiating support for initiatives that drive strategic alignment to deliver against the vision and purpose of OAHP.
• Ensuring continued oversight of and engagement with the Oxford Joint Research Office following its formation in late 2022 in support of research activities and development and the translation of research to patient care across both the OUH and Oxford Health NHS FT.
• Ensuring compliance: analysing information, monitoring performance, and reporting to the Department of Health in accordance with prevailing requirements.
• Deputising for the Director as required and representing OAHP in discussions pertinent to project and contracts and agreements as needed.
• Overseeing communications including effective, regular updates for partners; development and maintenance of appropriate means of communications e.g., website and social media.
• Working closely with the HIOTV Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, and senior team to support development, evaluation, and dissemination of innovation and translation of research facilitating and supporting an environment to evaluate technologies for implementation in the NHS.
• Providing support, with the Director of OAHP, for the current AHSCs Directors and COOs group, working in support of the development of policies across the AHSCs.

Relationships OAHP relies on strong, collaborative relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders across and within the five partner organisations and the local community through the BOB-ICS.

The COO will work closely with the OAHP Director and the Chair of the OAHOP Board to develop and sustain these links, to explore and initiate new links across a wider geography, and to achieve regular attendance at high level meetings for the exchange of information and the development and delivery of plans.

The Person Specification Skills and experience:

• Extensive knowledge of the academic/research/NHS environment, specifically in relation life sciences research, the life sciences industry, education, and translational research, innovation, external partnerships that foster external impact.
• Strategic management and planning, with the ability to present highly complex information to large/senior groups.
• Creative thinker with demonstrated analytical and data driven decision making skills.
• Highly collaborative team player and leader with strong interpersonal skills who works well in a cross institutional environment.
• Significant expertise in communication and the ability to negotiate priorities within and between organisations.
• Postgraduate, qualified to at least Master's level with formal management qualification or significant operational and strategic experience.

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