Associate Director of Strategy, System Transformation and Partnerships

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Associate Director of Strategy, System Transformation and Partnerships

NHS AfC: Band 8d

Main area Administrative services Grade NHS AfC: Band 8d Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 333-J-M-0209

Site The Gordon Hospital Town London Salary £96,340 – £109,849 per annum inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 30/12/2024 23:59 Interview date 20/01/2025

Job overview

This post will work as part of the Jameson divisional senior management team, reporting directly to the managing director, to lead in driving key opportunities across the division to support integrated working across services as well as across physical/mental health services that deliver key improvements for our patients and their carers. It will also enable the division to drive the delivery of national ambitions, in particular those relating to system transformation across mental health and the development and emergence of Primary Care Networks, Integrated Care Partnerships and Provider Collaboratives.

The post will lead the strategy transformation and partnerships team on the development and delivery of new models of care across the system, accountable for the delivery of the full transformation and community partnerships and engagement portfolio, working with key leads within the trust as well as establishing strong external partnership relationships and approaches to integration which join up pathways of care across organisational boundaries.

The post will play an important role in building/managing external relationships across our ICS footprint and will support the managing director in developing the strategy, quality improvement agenda and annual planning for the division.

Main duties of the job

This role also requires significant engagement and working in collaboration with a number of different stakeholders, including ICS leads, commissioners, acute, primary care, and mental health providers as well as the public, voluntary and community sector organisations. The role also will be critical internally in ensuring coordination and join up on key strategic agendas with Goodall division, and in supporting strong links between the Trust’s corporate strategic and integration functions and the division.
The post holder is expected to provide visible leadership and promote high standards by modelling the values and behaviours expected of a senior manager in the NHS. They will have a professional and management line of accountability to the managing director of the Jameson division.

This requires the post holder to provide leadership and facilitation in identifying areas for service improvement and support and facilitate managers, lead clinicians and their teams in delivering better services.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Working for our organisation

Our vision

Wellbeing for life : We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual’s quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support.

Our values

• Respect : We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
• Compassion : Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
• Empowerment : We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
• Partnership : We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of system transformation for the division.
• Work with service areas within the Division to develop and lead long-term strategic plans to improve corporate services efficiency across the NHS.
• Provide subject matter expertise internally and externally on effective services and how to implement change to deliver the outcomes.
• Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas where agreed.
• Form strong relationships with colleagues within the Trust to share information, identify where existing work can be used or adapted and avoid duplication of work.
• Be a full and effective contributor to Senior Management Team meetings and other governance forums.
• Communicate highly sensitive, complex and contentious information to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Use persuasion, negotiation and motivational skills to influence key decision making and maintain professional communication at all times when dealing with sensitive and contentious issues.
• Support the development of an ‘organisational learning’ culture by leading on the development of structures and processes to enable organisational learning.
• Develop sustainable services through the development of partnership with other organisations, including primary care, acute and mental health providers, voluntary agencies and the independent sector.
• Lead on workstreams for the Trust associated with relevant ICS and national NHS England and NHS Improvement priorities, in particular the Long-Term Plan working with transformation teams.
• Develop opportunities and partnerships for new models of care both within CNWL and across organizational boundaries working with key commissioning and provider organisations.
• Ensure partnership arrangements meet governance and corporate requirements of all parties and are supported by robust governance and documented agreements.

Please see the job description for further details on the role and responsibilities.

Person specification

Education

• Educated to a Master\’s Degree or equivalent professional qualification or relevant experience.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Post Graduate Degree in management or equivalent years of experience.
• Substantial recent senior management experience and relevant post-graduate experience.
• A track record of success within the NHS at a senior level.
• Significant experience in managing complex change including public consultation.
• Experience in representing services at a senior level and with other agencies.
• Demonstrable experience of effective partnership working with other organisations at a senior level.
• Significant experience in service transformation, developing care pathways and new models of care.
• Experience in involving service users and carers in service redesign and improvement.
• Experience of tendering for new services.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and the ability to see both the “bigger picture” and the detail.
• Working knowledge and understanding of present health policy in relation to services provided by the Trust and expectations of stakeholders.
• Understanding of the Clinical Services provided by the Trust and the relationships with other agencies.
• Excellent knowledge of NHS structures, bodies and regulations.
• Outstanding communication skills both verbal and written.
• Excellent influencing, facilitation, mediation and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and expertise in managing performance.
• Ability to interpret, analyse and deliver complex information and ability to formulate required plans in response.
• Evidence of developing long-term direction and of translating vision into practice.
• Evidence of anticipating problems, appraising risks, considering overall implications and making effective and possibly difficult recommendations/decisions.
• Project management knowledge and experience.
• Innovative and strategic thinker.
• Demonstrate commitment to involving/consulting service users/carers.
• Demonstrate ability to manage, and to promote diversity in the day-to-day practice of self and others.
• Able to influence others, including service users and carers, in service planning and delivery.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to changes in organisational and external requirements.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London\’s population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

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