Associate Director of Strategy

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy will close at midnight on the 25th February 2024.

Interviews are due to be held on the 4th March 2024.

Benefits to you

We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
• Relevant Postgraduate qualification.

Desirable

• Relevant professional registration.
• MBA or equivalent management qualification.
• Evidence of managing Successful Programmes/ Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent experience).

Experience

Essential

• Working at a senior level of management of operational and strategic transformation in a provider or commissioning organisation.
• Taking a strategic and analytical approach to assess areas of strength, identify competitive advantage and develop propositions and business cases that are attractive to different parties.
• Identifying, initiating and maintaining project and partnership activity with other organisations and maximising relations with relevant parties and services (from inception to completion through to alliance management).
• Working constructively with internal and external partners to create successful collaboration.
• Managing large scale complex programmes and projects at a senior management level using recognised methodology (e.g. Prince 2), including use of service improvement techniques, and tracking and monitoring their implementation. Identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies.
• Developing performance indicators to monitor project and programme delivery, and realising benefits
• Managing project budgets; knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation.
• Working collaboratively with senior clinicians across multi-disciplinary professions and services.
• Instigating, leading and managing change.
• Reporting complex information and data- verbally, in papers and in presentations.

Knowledge

Essential

• Change management, negotiation and influencing internally and externally at all levels.
• Budgeting and resource allocation.
• Clinical and corporate governance.
• National policy and local implementation.
• Workforce planning, recruitment and retention and staff development including appraisals and performance management.
• Patient and public involvement.
• Innovation in approaches to patient care.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of some specialties that the collaborative is prioritising (cardiothoracic, cancer, neuro, paediatrics, burns/plastics).

Skills

Essential

• Leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, and obtaining, providing and presenting information.
• Managing multifaceted, complex projects and programmes to time and budget.
• Communicating highly complex and sensitive information with exceptional verbal and written communication skills to a wide range of audiences; meticulous attention to detail.
• Thinking clearly, solving and pre-empting problems, reaching decisions, prioritising and recommending appropriate action through the assessment and presentation of relevant and complex information in an accessible form.
• Translating strategic direction into deliverable, measurable outcomes and engaging others in strategy and planning.
• Building positive relationships, influencing senior colleagues and other stakeholders including on highly sensitive and complex matters.
• Negotiation and diplomacy.
• Inspiring confidence and trust, commanding respect and creating a sense of community in teams. Ability to motivate and empower others as a positive and effective team worker.
• Representing at local, regional and national forums.
• Adapting during periods of change.
• Work autonomously, managing and prioritising workload, meeting tight deadlines and working under own initiative.
• Understanding of information governance.
• Using ICT (including Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and project management tools.
• Ability to translate complex, sensitive issues and problems into plans which are clearly articulated and understandable to others.
• Able to deliver flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems and challenges.
• Analyse, present and tailor complex data and information to a wide range of audiences.
• Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in working with complex policy and diverse interest groups. Working at a very senior level with multi-disciplinary.
• Intellectual flexibility to work beyond existing structures and ways of working to deliver effective services.
• Leading redesign of services.
• Lead change through the senior clinical forums with clear priorities and delivery.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Methodical, organised, analytical with problem solving capabilities.
• Highly motivated and resourceful.
• Able to learn rapidly, and take in a wide range of information, distilling out the key points into clear succinct well-argued documents.
• Able to maintain high standards of diplomacy and understands the principle of confidentiality.
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
• Able to manage competing demands and produce high quality work to tight deadlines.
• Able to establish positive relationships and mutual respect with people at all levels.
• Ability to contribute effectively.
• A clear communicator with excellent written, analytical and presentation skills.
• Demonstrates empathy and concerns for others.
• Shows respect for others' feelings, views and circumstances.
• Can demonstrate a flexible approach.
• Has realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development.
• Learn from mistakes and ask for support where necessary.
• Ability to prioritise own and others workload effectively to manage to tight deadlines whilst managing conflicting priorities.
• Work autonomously as well as part of a team.
• Flexibility in work prioritization.
• Resilience in a challenging environment and in the face of conflict.
• Loyalty and professionalism with regard to the team and the organization.
• Able to take on management of the operational requirements of the Trust.
• Willingness to work anywhere in the Trust and to travel, on occasions, within the region and nationally.
• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind and excellent.

Desirable

• Ability to work flexible hours.
• Experience of major and critical incidents.

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).