This senior post sits within the Whipps Cross Redevelopment Programme at Barts Health NHS Trust. The postholder links the planned Centre of Excellence for frailty and complex needs with wider health and care transformation across north east London, aligning the programme with system priorities and brokering relationships with primary, community and social care partners. The role spans every business case phase of a high-profile programme through to opening, and depends on strategic judgement and proven NHS change management experience, with a Masters or equivalent expected.
What the job involves
- Connect the Centre of Excellence for frailty and complex needs with wider health and care transformation across the system
- Design the Centre with neighbourhood health, research and education, and estates and facilities partners
- Align the programme with system transformation priorities
- Broker relationships with primary, community and social care partners
- Ensure the Centre strengthens, and is strengthened by, care in people's homes and neighbourhoods
- Lead the programme through all business case phases to opening of the Centre
- Turn a complex landscape into clear, deliverable plans
- Work closely with the Strategy Delivery Director, the Deputy Director of Neighbourhood Transformation and senior clinical and operational colleagues
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters level or equivalent experience
- In-depth management knowledge to degree level or equivalent, gained through training and experience
Experience
- Significant experience managing or supporting system-wide change programmes in the public sector
- Proven sustained management of teams in an NHS trust or similar public sector organisation
- Significant complex programme management experience
- Delivering major business and systems change across multiple locations and stakeholders
- Partnership working across acute, community and wider system partners
Skills & knowledge
- Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and key policy drivers
- Procuring and managing the outputs of external advisors
- Contract management
- Strong stakeholder engagement, planning and coordination skills
- Communicating and influencing at all levels, verbally and in writing
- Moving between detail and big picture to distil priorities, weighing costs and benefits
Other
- Articulating and persuading others across NHS organisations, acting as ambassador for the Trust and Programme
- Clear focus on service improvement and leaving a lasting legacy
- Preparing and delivering presentations and business cases to diverse audiences
Nice to have
- Senior-level experience in a corporate team environment
- Complex business case development for public sector investment
- Knowledge of procurement regulations
- Experience of neighbourhood health or place-based transformation programmes
- Innovative, encouraging others to find ways of improving service quality
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