Head of Strategy Delivery

Job description

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior, strategic and system-minded individual to join the Whipps Cross Redevelopment Programme team as Head of Strategy Delivery, connecting the development of the new Centre of Excellence for frailty and complex needs with the wider transformation of health and care across north east London. The role will involve working closely with the Strategy Delivery Director, the Deputy Director of Neighbourhood Transformation, senior clinical and operational colleagues and partners across the local health and care system.

A Centre of Excellence is only as good as the community and system around it and in this role you will be the connection between the development of the Centre of Excellence for frailty and complex needs - the next phase of the Whipps Cross redevelopment - and the wider transformation of health and care across the system, ensuring the Centre is designed hand-in-hand with neighbourhood health, research and education, and estates and facilities partners, and takes its place as a genuine community asset. You will lead work to align the programme with system transformation priorities, broker relationships with partners across primary, community and social care, and make sure that what is planned for the Centre strengthens - and is strengthened by - the care being built around it in people's homes and neighbourhoods.

Main duties of the job

A Centre of Excellence is only as good as the community and system around it. In this role you will be the connection between the development of the Centre of Excellence for frailty and complex needs - the next phase of the Whipps Cross redevelopment - and the wider transformation of health and care across the system, ensuring the Centre is designed hand-in-hand with neighbourhood health, research and education, and estates and facilities partners, and takes its place as a genuine community asset. You will lead work to align the programme with system transformation priorities, broker relationships with partners across primary, community and social care, and make sure that what is planned for the Centre strengthens - and is strengthened by - the care being built around it in people's homes and neighbourhoods. Operating at senior level in a high-profile programme moving across all business case phases through to opening of the Centre of Excellence, you will need the credibility to work across organisational boundaries and the strategic judgement to turn a complex landscape into clear, deliverable plans.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of managing or supporting system wide change programmes within the public sector
• Proven track record of successful and sustained management in an NHS Trust or similar public sector organisation
• In-depth knowledge in a number of management disciplines acquired through training and experience to degree level or equivalent.
• Evidence of a track record in change management and working with different corporate and service-level functions within a public sector organisation
• Significant complex programme management experience
• Experience of procuring and managing the outputs of external advisors
• Experience in delivering a programme involving major business and systems change in a multi stakeholder environment across multiple locations
• Experience of partnership working across organisational boundaries, building alignment between acute, community and wider system partners
• Experience of managing teams and subject matter experts
• Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers
• Experience of contract management

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working at a senior level in a corporate team environment Experience of complex business case development for investment in the public sector
• Procurement Regulations
• Experience of neighbourhood health or place-based transformation programmes

Skills

Essential criteria

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to manage different internal and external stakeholders and public engagement
• Strong planning and coordination skills in a complex and rapidly changing environment
• Well-developed communication skills - both verbal and written - with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels
• Able to clarify key points from diverse and complex sets of information.
• Able to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions
• The ability to grasp critical issues and distil them into clear and manageable priorities, weighing both costs and benefits.
• Uses a range of influencing strategies to bring about change and modernisation of services.
• Builds and uses networks of influence
• Strives to ensure that local people, staff and other agencies are involved in shaping the health modernisation agenda.
• Takes time to build critical mass or support for a position, with the aim of getting results by working in partnership

Desirable criteria

• Innovative - and is able to encourage others in finding ways of improving the quality of services

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to articulate and persuade others up, down and across the NHS organisations and represent/act as an ambassador to the Trust and of the Programme.
• Is clearly focused on the goal of service improvement
• Invests sustained effort in making a significant impact on improvement within the organisation and across the whole healthcare community
• Works in such a way as to leave a legacy of improved services.
• Demonstrates a real commitment to working with, involving and consulting patients and other stakeholders in decisions about service delivery and improvement
• Able to take conscious steps to manage self under pressure - creating time for reflection and support for self and others
• Able to manage own energy and pace efforts.
• Able to absorb and deal constructively with criticism and seek support as necessary.
• Coaches' others, challenging and asking questions to help them work out answers for themselves
• Able to undertake presentations to staff groups conveying sensitive and contentious information
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations and business cases to diverse audiences

Visa Sponsorship Information

This role is subject to UK immigration requirements. Where sponsorship is required, applicants must meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa in accordance with current UK Visas and Immigration rules, including any salary, qualification, and role-specific requirements applicable at the time of appointment. Candidates who require sponsorship will only be considered where the post is eligible and where all sponsorship criteria can be met. Evidence of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals' who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

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By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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