Job summary
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council & South Yorkshire ICB Place Urgent and Emergency Programme Manager.
Band 8B, 37.5 Hours per week - Flexible hours and working patterns would be considered.
It is a exciting time to join the organisations across Rotherham Place to deliver one of our most important portfolios of work, urgent and community care. This unique role is hosted by The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust but works across all health and care partners and offers an opportunity for someone to make a tangible difference to the lives of people in Rotherham.
To deliver in this role you'll need to be able to navigate between the various organisations, identifying and engaging with key stakeholders, utilise your soft and analytical skills to influence and work between conflicting priorities to help partners to find common ground.
In return for your hard work, we will look to support you as best as we can. You will have significant exposure to senior colleagues across Rotherham including the ICS, TRFT and Council all how who have a track record of supporting and developing their staff. You will be no different.
If the role sounds interesting to you, please do get in touch. We would be happy to talk through the teams, the culture of the organisations, the role and the work you will be involved in.
Steph Watt - Health and Care Portfolio Lead (Urgent and Community) - 07961361921.
Ben Gray Deputy Director, Strategy and Delivery - 07592328041.
Main duties of the job
This role is a
critical part of the Rotherham Place transformational change and improvement infrastructure.
Working across the health and social care landscape and the providers within
the post holder will lead, coordinate and provide forward momentum to the
programme of change related to the Urgent and Emergency Care Programme across
Rotherham.
About us
The Rotherham
NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our
local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the
right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of
Rotherham.
As a Trust we
are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of
everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the
second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a
place to work?, and were one of the most improved for staff engagement
overall.
But dont just
take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for
our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and
recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of
patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making.
All of our
5,100 colleagues are key to our improvement journey, and we are continuing to improve
our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together.
If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us
on our journey to excellence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification
for the full details about the role and the responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification
for the full details about the role and the responsibilities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading change within a large organisation (NHS/Social Care, Public Sector).
- Extensive experience of working in health and social care across a wide range of services within commissioning.
- Knowledge of the change function including planning, assessment of needs, service development/implementation, contracting, performance management/service improvement across health and social care.
- Experience of working with senior officials and managers across a wide range of stakeholder organisations.
- Proven Leadership experience in delivering transformation and benefits realisation.
- Extensive experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience of researching best practice and developing solutions that can achieve optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Experience of interpreting national policy and implementing this through programmes of work.
- Previous experience of managing budgets for complex contracts, services or programmes of work, including budget setting and monitoring.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current health and care policy and appreciate the implications of this.
- Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Attributes
Essential
- Good ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focused on removing barriers to full participation.
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference.
- Compassionate leader.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band / level.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
Desirable
- To have one or more of the below project management qualifications or equivalent level of experience:
- -Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
- -PRINCE2 Practitioner
- -Managing Successful
- -Programmes Advanced Practitioner
- -P3O Practitioner.
- -APM Registered Project Professional.
- -Project Leadership Programme.
- -QSIR practitioner
- Member of relevant professional body.
- Additional management qualification or specialist qualification or equivalent level of experience.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
- Able to negotiate on difficult and contentious issues including performance and change.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multi- disciplinary environment, including foresight into identification of risk and its management.
- Good analytical skills with an ability to analyse and consider complex information and develop a range of options.
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan over the short, medium and long- term altering plans to fit with the rapidly changing environment.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and intermediate keyboard skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills across a wide range of stakeholders including clinicians, providers and service users.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading change within a large organisation (NHS/Social Care, Public Sector).
- Extensive experience of working in health and social care across a wide range of services within commissioning.
- Knowledge of the change function including planning, assessment of needs, service development/implementation, contracting, performance management/service improvement across health and social care.
- Experience of working with senior officials and managers across a wide range of stakeholder organisations.
- Proven Leadership experience in delivering transformation and benefits realisation.
- Extensive experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience of researching best practice and developing solutions that can achieve optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Experience of interpreting national policy and implementing this through programmes of work.
- Previous experience of managing budgets for complex contracts, services or programmes of work, including budget setting and monitoring.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current health and care policy and appreciate the implications of this.
- Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Attributes
Essential
- Good ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focused on removing barriers to full participation.
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference.
- Compassionate leader.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band / level.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
Desirable
- To have one or more of the below project management qualifications or equivalent level of experience:
- -Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
- -PRINCE2 Practitioner
- -Managing Successful
- -Programmes Advanced Practitioner
- -P3O Practitioner.
- -APM Registered Project Professional.
- -Project Leadership Programme.
- -QSIR practitioner
- Member of relevant professional body.
- Additional management qualification or specialist qualification or equivalent level of experience.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
- Able to negotiate on difficult and contentious issues including performance and change.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multi- disciplinary environment, including foresight into identification of risk and its management.
- Good analytical skills with an ability to analyse and consider complex information and develop a range of options.
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan over the short, medium and long- term altering plans to fit with the rapidly changing environment.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and intermediate keyboard skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills across a wide range of stakeholders including clinicians, providers and service users.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
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.
