Associate Director of Assurance PMO

Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow. Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people’s homes all across the borough. We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action - our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care. Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud.

The Associate Director of Assurance will play a critical role ensuring that Croydon delivers on efficiency and transformational plans. Supporting the Director of Transformation, the post holder will work with the executive team, senior clinical and operational colleagues and corporate teams to ensure the effective implementation and monitoring of the Trust's efficiency and transformation projects and programmes to focus on clinical and operational excellence in a way that maximises the engagement of individuals and clinical teams across the Trust.

Main duties of the job:

• Providing overall management and leadership on assurance of efficiency and transformation programmes and projects.
• Promoting best practice in programme and project management and delivery, including researching best practice, publishing guides and enabling training opportunities across both organisations.
• Overseeing the tracking of progress against plans and milestones for both efficiency and transformation projects, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
• Rigorously challenging non-delivery and slippage on projects through performance management principles ensuring there is accountability across the organisation.
• Ensuring the development and implementation of qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the priority programmes of work.
• Reporting progress against the overall Efficiency and Transformation plans through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports to appropriate boards and groups of staff.

We will always be professional, compassionate, respectful and safe.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Promoting the efficiency and transformation programme and cultivating new ideas through engagement with local partners including Primary Care Networks/GP practices, secondary and community care clinicians, service managers and social care colleagues.
• Maintaining oversight of efficiency programmes across partner organisations including South West London ICB, South London and the Maudsley, and Croydon Council.
• Ensuring a smooth transition through decision making process to the planning and implementation of projects.
• Participating in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide project, information and analytical advice and expertise.
• Developing and implementing programme and project monitoring processes that will provide accurate and timely data.
• Presenting project information and issues, explaining complexities, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Liaising with other Managers to share best practice.

Skills:

• Essential criteria: Analytical Skills, Planning Skills, Financial Skills.
• Desirable criteria: Management Skills.

Experience:

• Essential criteria: Autonomy, Communication, Management.

Your recruitment team:

The NHS South West London Recruitment Hub is your dedicated recruitment team, here to support you at every stage of the process. If you have a query, please contact us.

Your application:

Please ensure your supporting statement clearly reflects the job description and person specification, as shortlisting will be based on these criteria.

References:

Please provide a minimum of 3 years' employment and/or education history, including professional email addresses (not personal accounts such as Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot provide these, please inform the interview panel to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.

Closing date:

To help us manage recruitment efficiently, some vacancies may close early once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Safeguarding and DBS Checks:

We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.