The postholder will provide senior support to the Chief Officer for Strategy, People and Partnerships, acting as a senior lead across the full breadth of this diverse portfolio.
The postholder will bring their transformation expertise and offer strategic leadership and oversight for programmes and projects, ensuring they are designed, coordinated, and delivered in line with organisational and system priorities. They will lead a multi-skilled team and work to ensure there are the skills and capacity to provide additional support across the breadth of the portfolio.
The postholder will lead on NHS reform and key business activities, supporting effective decision-making, and ensuring progress, risks, and outcomes are monitored and communicated with clarity.
To align governance capacity more closely with organisational priorities and strengthen the connection between governance, transformation, and corporate planning.
Working collaboratively with internal colleagues and external partners, the role enables successful delivery, drives improvement, and contributes to both organisational and system-wide goals.
Main duties of the job
- Secure, drawing down, and attracting funding for system priorities.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships across NHS organisations, GMCA, local authorities, and wider stakeholders.
- Deliver priorities set, aligning with national, regional, and local objectives.
- Drive internal reform of corporate functions and governance, recognising and managing the impact with partners.
- Drive modernisation and reform in corporate delivery functions, identifying impact on partner relationships and wider system reform
- Oversee core corporate processes, audits, risk management, production of complex papers, ensuring effective navigation through governance structures and decision-making forums.
- Lead the management of corporate budgets, ensuring robust financial controls, efficiency, and value for money, maintaining financial performance and sustainability of NHS GM.
- Deputise for the Chief Officer across the portfolio. Provide senior leadership and continuity of decision-making in their absence.
- Support the Chief Officer in aligning organisational strategies with national NHS priorities and local system needs. Providing overall strategic leadership for organisational development, coordination, setting direction, ensuring coherence across programmes, and creating the conditions for high quality organisational development.
- Provide advice, guidance, support and oversight of the OD plan and develop a matrix delivery approach to its implementation
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Deputy Chief Officer for Strategy, People and Partnerships employer: HSJjobs
St John's Hospice in Lancaster is an exceptional employer, offering a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community while leading financial management during a transformative period. With a strong commitment to employee development and a collaborative work culture, staff are encouraged to grow professionally and personally, all within a supportive environment that values innovation and strategic thinking.
