Managing Director - East of England Provider Collaborative

Managing Director – East of England Provider Collaborative

VSM

Main area: Corporate Management
Grade: VSM
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 310-MCORP-6846062-A

Site: Elizabeth House
Town: Fulbourn
Salary: To be negotiated
Closing: 23/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

The purpose of the Managing Director post is to develop and embed the Collaborative’s strategic direction, governance, transformation, and organisational development programme, operational and financial performance.

This pivotal role is responsible for driving development and growth while enabling and establishing a positive ‘can do’ attitude and culture across the Collaborative’s stakeholders to support transformation and quality improvement initiatives for the benefit of patients and staff.

The Managing Director will recruit and lead a commissioning and transformation team that aims to deliver significant benefits for patients including:

• Care closer to home
• More consistent and high-quality care through standardising our approaches
• Greater influence from patients on the design of care at both service and individual level
• More ‘joined up’ care with close working between NHS providers and private sector partners

Please be advised that as part of the recruitment process you will be required to submit a letter which will be reviewed along with your application. Please ensure that you include your interest in applying, along with what you believe you can bring to this role and a brief employment summary. Please forward your covering letter to no later than close of business 22nd January 2025.

Main duties of the job

The Managing Director will work in partnership with lead Clinical Directors on a day-to-day basis to consolidate and ensure the effective operation of new care models, and help develop new partnerships, pathways, and service models.

The Managing Director will:

• Report to the Lead CEO of the East of England Provider Collaborative
• Lead the day-to-day management of the collaborative within the East of England
• Interface with all East of England providers and commissioners including ICBs and local authorities
• Ensure that there is constant and visible leadership and ensure delivery of its performance, financial and governance requirements.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Work as a dynamic, innovative leader using a positive, strong influencing style to ensure the designated services are run effectively and to budget, ensuring that the collaborative is portrayed in a positive manner.
• To develop a cohesive leadership team and together develop clear work plans for assurance and improvement within the designated services.
• To lead the management team and through them to manage all of the collaborative resources, ensuring the service complies with the requirements of regulators and meets its obligation in contracts.
• To ensure effective and timely reporting to the collaborative Board and its six participant Trust Boards.
• To prepare the collaborative members for future commissioning arrangements across a broader range of specialties and to engage relevant clinicians in the design of future care pathways.
• To lead on the development of the Collaborative’s strategic approach and business plans.
• To lead the collaborative Board in a manner that will enable the best possible strategic and financial decisions.
• To play an active role in the clinical redesign of services within the East of England ensuring clinician involvement and participation throughout the process.
• To ensure that the views of service users and carers are at the heart of the collaboratives decision making.
• To encourage the development of the designated services taking into account innovation in healthcare and clinical practice.
• To ensure the effective quality oversight of the collaboratives commissioning portfolio.
• To ensure that there is an effective system of governance and performance management in place within the collaborative and to monitor and report on how the service effectively uses its resources.
• To identify and minimise key risks to the achievement of the Collaborative’s objectives and ensure service continuity is maintained in the event of major disruption to normal service delivery.
• To ensure all service information is reported as required both internally and externally.
• To be aware of and respond to the national agenda set by NHS England and the implications and opportunities for the collaborative.
• To lead engagement with service users and representative organisations on behalf of the collaborative.
• To work closely with independent sector partners to ensure the best possible outcomes for service users and value for money.
• Proactively contribute to the region’s ICBs, alongside strategic partners in the sector and take forward initiatives and interventions for the sector that enhances successful developments and outputs for the sector across the East of England.
• Responsibility for enhancing the wider local health system stakeholder communication and engagement in the development of the strategic direction for site-based and out-of-hospital care.
• Represent the collaborative at regional and local levels including CCG, Local Authority, Health and Wellbeing boards, and other appropriate meetings as required.
• Ensure the collaborative delivers quality, operational, financial and workforce performance against agreed plans and hold team members to account for the delivery of their plans.
• Regularly review Quality and Safety, Governance and Risk, Operational Performance and other key performance indicators at service level to ensure all areas are monitored to agreed standards and better.
• To assure all reporting is accurate and timely and information is issued regularly and properly to enable continued learning and improvement for patient outcomes.
• Take opportunities to review performance and triangulate information produced through visits to operational areas, observing behaviours, and undertaking honest, supportive and open discussions with staff.
• Review performance at service level to ensure consistent and excellent performance happens, and where there are performance gaps or failures, lead, support and direct service teams to undertake remedial action required in a timely manner.
• Seek, share and drive opportunities across the service, which improve service delivery and performance to the highest level possible thus contributing to the overall success of the Trust.
• With and informed by Clinical Directors, and other senior leaders seek opportunities to challenge and improve practice in all areas including clinical quality, patient experience, operational effectiveness and put remedial actions in place to ensure and evidence improvement, demonstrating that quality and safety are of the utmost priority in the daily operation of the hospital site.
• Forge and cultivate highly effective relationships and strong partnership with Clinicians.
• Responsible for establishing effective governance across the collaborative and that the robust arrangements are in place and that the collaborative remains fit for purpose.
• As the Responsible Director for the Collaborative’s services, establish effective relationships and assurance systems with key regulatory bodies to ensure full compliance with CQC registration requirements and wider patient safety agenda, for example, NHS England, CCGs and the National Health Service Litigation Authority (NHSLA).

Person specification

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to operate effectively in clinical academic operational environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Motivational skills to lead staff to deliver operational objectives and standards.
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills both verbal, written and presentation together with excellent listening skills including facilitation.
• Ability to develop and operate in a network context
• Ability to develop and realise commercial growth opportunities
• Advanced MS Office.

Experience

• Significant senior management experience, at scale, in an NHS Trust.
• Experience of increasing staff engagement and motivation to improve performance
• Experience of leading service and/or transformational change.
• Experience of managing complex problems
• Previous experience of commissioning health or social care services
• A strong regional and national network of senior NHS personnel
• Experience of managing relationships with NHS regulators
• Experience of working at Director level in a complex organisation
• Experience of working in the Criminal Justice System
• Previous experience as a Director or VSM in a Mental Health Trust

Education / Qualifications

• Educated to degree level
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
• Demonstrable track record of sound financial and operational management in a senior manager level position.
• Demonstrable track record of operational performance improvement.
• Demonstrates effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.

Physical Requirements

• Able to travel throughout the East of England

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