Head of Business & Transformation (XN10) in Leeds

We are seeking to recruit a motivated Head of Business & Transformation to join the Commercial Services team within Estates & Facilities, working across the five Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust sites. You will work at a senior management level working closely with the E&F senior leadership team and clinical teams to lead on Transformation and Innovation across Estates & Facilities as well as having responsibility for your services portfolio ensuring that the business, workforce and financial planning achieve determined KPIs.

In this role, you will be in a unique position to drive change and improvement on a large scale, leading on implementing enhancements to our provision and services in one of the country’s most complex Trusts. The work you do will influence income, promote savings and impact on patients and staff alike. You will need a strong focus on improving patient care and achieving large scale transformation driving through efficiencies.

Main duties of the job

• Manage the performance of the services including Technical Development, Nurseries, Contracts, E&F Hub, Residences, Performance/QA and Communications against key targets and measures.
• Ensure that resources are deployed effectively and that robust processes are in place to support the provision of efficient, high quality services.
• Responsible for relevant strategic programmes and associated budgets and service operational plans.
• Developing and sustaining capacity and capability within your services.
• Ensure that service activities are appropriately recorded in order to maximise income opportunities related to service provision.
• Engaging with internal/external stakeholders; promoting partnerships and co-operative working.
• Ensure business continuity and risk management arrangements are in place in the unit.
• Contribute to the delivery of both local & organisational objectives.
• Lead on innovation and transformation across E & F services supporting the delivery of WRPs.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest employers in Leeds, employing over 20,000 staff and providing care to 1.6 million patients every year. The Estates and Facilities team keep the Trust's sites running and manage one of the largest estate portfolios across the NHS. With over 2,300 staff, we provide a range of Estates & Facilities management services and ensure our buildings and environments are fit for purpose, clean and safe. Whether we’re cleaning wards, maintaining buildings, monitoring environmental impact, providing staff childcare, delivering hot meals to patients, or patrolling our sites, we support the delivery of patient care. Guided by our Leeds Way Values, we are committed to creating the best place to work and being the employer of choice for estates and facilities in the region.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description "Head of Business & Transformation" that is attached for this advertised role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification.
• Masters Degree or equivalent management qualification or post graduate diploma.

Other Criteria

• Ability to lead highly complex multidisciplinary teams based on different sites across the organisation.
• Manage clinical and business risks developing action plans to improve performance.

Experience

• Experience of successful operational management at a middle/senior management level.
• Operational and business planning and implementation and options appraisal.
• Management of staff from a range of professional and occupational backgrounds.
• Demonstrates ability to develop and utilise effective professional networks.
• Preparing strategic plans.
• Demonstrates evidence of innovation in the provision of services.

Skills and Behaviours

• Knowledge of workforce planning principles and practice.
• Excellent change management skills including service reconfiguration.
• Capacity planning, managing service activity and developing business cases.
• Sound understanding of the NHS plan and modernisation agenda.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills with ability to anticipate problems, appraise risks and make effective decisions.
• Working well under pressure of time and resources.
• Knowledge and application of key policies and procedures to include E&F related targets/data sets and KPIs.
• NHS policies and best practice guidance relevant to EFM.
• Fair, honest and consistent in approach.
• Excellent presentation skills using a range of techniques, software and equipment.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.