Band 8a Portfolio Manager - HIWM

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Qualifications

Essential

• *Educated to Masters level or appropriate professional qualification or equivalent in a relevant discipline and experience in health-related arena.
• *Evidence of continuing professional development.
• *Project management qualification or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• *Recognised qualification in one of the following:
• oPatient safety
• oQuality improvement
• oChange management
• oBenefits realisation
• oBusiness advice

Experience

Essential

• *Significant relevant experience at a senior level in providing management and leadership to the design, delivery, evidence generation, and capture of impacts of large-scale programmes and projects.
• *Specialist programme/project management knowledge.
• *Experience of staff management including line management, developing potential and performance management.
• *Knowledge of West Midlands innovation ecosystem.
• *Evidence of working collaboratively and influencing people from a wide range of professional backgrounds (including clinicians and patients) and being effective across organisational boundaries.
• *Experience of patient /user involvement initiatives.
• *Experience of report writing for Executive level Committees.
• *Experience of presenting reports, managing feedback and questions at Senior management level.
• *Evidence of managing service/organisational change.
• *Evidence of experience in risk management and service improvement.
• *Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.

Desirable

• *Experience of working in or with commissioning, social care, industry and/or public health.
• *NHS political and cultural awareness.
• *Evidence of developing teams.
• *Experience of working in or with commercial businesses and investors.
• *Experience of working in or with commissioning, integrated care boards (ICBs), social care, HEIs and/or public health.
• *Experience and evidence of knowledge and delivery in
• oBusiness support
• oBusiness management / costing
• oIncome generation

Additional Criteria

Essential

• *Understanding of full range of improvement and implementation methodology techniques, including process mapping, capacity and demand modelling and sustainability processing.
• *Effective leadership, organisational and people management skills.
• *Excellent organisational, time management and prioritisation skills.
• *Proven analysis of business performance information and make decisions on meeting business targets, highlighting performance information
• *Ability to analyse, rationalise, organise and interpret complex information and situations Excellent interpersonal, teambuilding and communication skills (both written and verbal).
• *Ability to negotiate positive outcomes involving different parties and senior colleagues, managing conflict and challenge across a range of diverse situations.
• *Ability to delegate effectively for best use of resources.
• *Ability to determine and manage expectations of all stakeholders (internal and external).
• *Ability to work in a matrix manner and to work flexibly.
• *Ability to plan and organise a large workload to meet both internal and external deadlines.
• *Ability to identify, document and ensure the delivery of SMART objectives (or other systematic format).
• *Accuracy and attention to detail whilst maintaining flexibility within the workload.
• *Committed team worker.
• *Information Technology skills including data analysis and use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• *Skilled at writing and presenting reports, papers and audio-visual presentations.
• *Demonstrable commitment to the promotion of high standards which consistently improves patient outcomes.
• *Ability to investigate and resolve issues using negotiation, coaching and facilitation and leadership skills.
• *Consistently puts patients and public at the heart of decision making.
• *Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
• *Able to work on your own initiative and with teams within broad occupational policies establishing interpretation and providing guidance.
• *Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
• *Actively develops themselves and others.
• *Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
• *Ability to travel and work cross-site to meet the needs of the service.
• *Flexibility to work outside traditional office hours as per organisation needs.

Desirable

• *Planning and organising complex activities, sometimes with a degree of uncertainty, which require formulation, adjustment and co-ordination with other professionals within other organisations.
• *Ability to use specialist knowledge to inform the design and delivery of programmes, projects and activities.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).